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Geotimes March 2004 Naomi Lubick	University losses at home and abroad Two universities announced the effective closure of their geology research departments in January. The University of Connecticut (UConn) and the University of Basel in Switzerland, cited budget problems among other concerns in announcing the changes.
Geotimes April 2004 Rossbacher & Rhodes	The Department You Save May Be Your Own: Part I To stay away from the budget-cutting block, departments must be proactive. Geology faculty and students can do a lot to save themselves by never allowing administrators to think they are expendable.
Geotimes May 2004 Rossbacher & Rhodes	The Department You Save May Be Your Own: Part II A past director of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), wrote an essay about how to destroy an academic department. Eight years later, a new article laments the fact that the advice is still needed.
Information Today December 8, 2008	Academic.edu Provides a `Tree' of Academics Around the World Academia.edu is a recently launched website that enables graduate students and academics to create academic webpages and to find other academics around the world with the same research interests.
Geotimes May 2007 Carolyn Gramling	Geology Department to Close at SUNY-Albany Long on the brink of extinction, geology at the State University of New York at Albany has taken one step closer to the edge.
Information Today March 18, 2013	Reprints Desk Launches Document Delivery Service for Academic Institutions Reprints Desk, Inc.announced the launch of A-Z Academic Document Delivery Collection, a new single-article document delivery retrieval service for academic libraries that provide literature acquisition services to faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students.
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Geotimes September 2004 Naomi Lubick	Broadening horizons for students Snee Hall is home to Cornell University's Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Since broadening its subject base in 2002, the department has greatly increased its number of majors.
Chemistry World November 6, 2015 Matthew Gunther	Chemistry departments running in the red in the UK UK university chemistry departments' finances are well into the red, according to a recent report on university balance sheets.
Information Today February 24, 2015	APA Temporarily Suspends New Programs for PSYCAS Service Released in January, PSYCAS streamlines the psychology program application process for students, faculty members, and departments.
Information Today September 3, 2015	Gale Announces Academic Library Survey Results The survey on academic libraries shows that closer collaboration between librarians and faculty members is necessary for improved communication between the two groups.
Chemistry World May 19, 2010 Hayley Birch	Could rising graduate debt hit science hard? The Russell Group, which represents the UK's elite universities, has suggested that students should pay more towards the cost of university degrees. But increases in graduate debt could have unwelcome repercussions for scientific research and graduates with science degrees.
Job Journal November 9, 2008	Career Snapshot: Postsecondary Teachers College-level instructors enjoy a class of students more eager to learn.
Information Today February 23, 2012	Social Media Data Available for ebrary Student E-book Survey ebrary, a ProQuest business, announced that the social media data of its 2011 Global Student E-book Survey is now publicly available online along with the full report.
Chemistry World September 28, 2010 Rebecca Trager	US university's scheme to rate faculty draws fire The document, recently released in response to a public information request, reportedly includes details about how much money each faculty member brought in during the last academic year through teaching and external research grants.
Geotimes July 2004 Christopher M. Keane	The Geosciences -- Profession or Discipline? The geosciences are potentially at a crossroads -- the field can either continue to be a profession or slowly evolve into a discipline.
Financial Planning November 1, 2012 Ann Marsh	25 Great Schools For Future Financial Planners The academic landscape for financial planning is shifting rapidly. Here s where to find the next generation of advisors.
InternetNews February 10, 2010	Big Blue Rolls Out Academic Cloud IBM's new Academic Skills Cloud gives universities a free suite of cloud-based business intelligence and information management applications to bolster their IT curricula.
Chemistry World January 23, 2013 Paula Stephan	Too many scientists? It may be hard to believe, but once there was a time when scientists (young and old), policy wonks and those in government worried about a shortage of trained individuals to conduct research.
Geotimes July 2007 Cathryn Manduca	On the Cutting Edge of Teaching About Early Earth The recent "On the Cutting Edge" workshop brought together experts in early Earth research and undergraduate geoscience education. They developed a variety of ideas to incorporate into the teaching of this challenging subject.
Chemistry World June 9, 2010	Chemistry at Sussex under threat again The department, which topped The Guardian's 2010 university league table for chemistry, is set to lose some 40 per cent of its faculty, according to Phil Parsons, head of organic chemistry at Sussex.
Information Today April 22, 2014	Alexander Street Press Introduces Database of Business Ebooks The new database makes 500 business etextbooks and reference materials available without digital rights restrictions to worldwide academic, public, and school libraries.
T.H.E. Journal February 2009 Charlene O'Hanlon	Credit Recovery Software: the New Summer School Districts are using online programs to get at-risk students back on track to graduation.
Geotimes March 2004	Boost for women geoscientists Numbers of women faculty in the geosciences, though increasing, have remained a concern. New awards hope to increase the numbers of women faculty in science and engineering.
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Paul Muhlrad	Irving Epstein: Better Living Through Chemistry (Class) It will require a change in mindset for chemistry faculty if we are going to get students into chemistry because they want to be, rather than because they have to be.
Geotimes January 2007 Margaret Anne Baker	Diversity in the Geosciences -- We Can Do Better As minorities become the majority of the population, the inability to tap these communities is a severe handicap to actually tapping the bulk of the best and brightest students and including them in the geoscience community.
Science News February 28, 2009 David Spergel	Nation Needs Recovery Plan For Science Faculty Jobs Even if the economy were to recover over the next one to two years, the academic job market for the next few years is likely to be bleak.
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2015 Mary Wu	The Future of Institutional Repositories at Small Academic Institutions: Analysis and Insights While all institutional repositories have experienced the same obstacles relating to a lack of faculty participation, those at small universities face unique challenges.
Information Today September 29, 2011	Gale Introduces Gale Business Insights: Global The resource is designed for undergraduate and graduate business school students, as well as academic faculty, librarians, and professional researchers.
Information Today December 5, 2013	University Creates Big Data Graduate Program Worcester Polytechnic Institute has a new graduate degree program in data science that is designed to produce professionals who can manage Big Data.
Information Today November 5, 2015	McGraw-Hill Education Studies Students and Technology Students see greater potential for technology in college than is currently being used.
Chemistry World May 31, 2011 Rebecca Trager	Texas universities' spending under scrutiny A push to root out 'waste' at public universities in Texas using quantitative metrics - including research grants - to assess faculty performance is making its way across the state. But academics are warning that this could make recruiting staff at these universities much more difficult.
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InternetNews June 28, 2010	FIU Latest University to Expose Student Data More than 19,000 Florida International University students are busy checking their credit reports this week after school officials confirmed that tons of personal information was stored on an unsecured database.
Geotimes September 2005 Naomi Lubick	Paul Bierman: New Landscapes for Teaching This Distinguished Teaching Scholar award recipient uses the landscape images available through his the Landscape Change Program to get students of all ages excited about the local Vermont geology.
BusinessWeek November 27, 2006 Richard Schmalensee	Where's The "B" In B-Schools? Many business schools are seeking to make research and teaching more valuable to practicing managers. This is easier said than done.
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Information Today December 2, 2014 Abby Clobridge	OpenCon: Students and Early-Career Researchers for Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data OpenCon, was the first full conference for students and early-career researchers that focused on the open knowledge trifecta -- open access, open education, and open data.
Information Today January 8, 2009	Nature Education Launches Free Educational Resource--Scitable Currently focused on genetics, Scitable combines authoritative scientific information with social media functionality.
IEEE Spectrum August 2011 Prachi Patel	MIT, You're Not All That A new ranking system puts some lesser-known EE programs above the big-name schools
Geotimes August 2003 Lisa A. Rossbacher	Is there a doctor in the house? Geoscientists can help benefit public health. A lot. But if we wait to be asked, we could wait a very long time.
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Geotimes September 2003 Jill Karsten	A Unified Approach to Diversifying the Earth Sciences In the geosciences, a community-wide conversation is vital to recruiting and retaining a diverse population.
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Search Engine Watch April 12, 2006 Chris Sherman	Microsoft Launches Windows Live Academic Search The targeted search service is focused on connecting students and researchers with peer-reviewed scholarly information, and addresses two needs of the academic community that have traditionally been under-served.
D-Lib May 2005	Influencing User Behavior through Digital Library Design: An Example from the Geosciences A look at how the portal of a digital library can be designed to influence the behavior of its users.
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