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Thursday, February 28, 2008 6:28 PM

From the Chronicle, Feb. 28, 2009

Student Newspaper and Student Government at Montclair State Will Separate Attempts to mediate the dispute between the student newspaper and the student government at Montclair State University have failed, and the institution’s president
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Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:19 AM

From The Wired Campus, Feb. 27, 2008

Abilene Christian U. to Give iPhones or iPods to All Freshmen Abilene Christian University says it will be the first university in the country to give iPhones or iPods to all incoming freshmen. Today the university unveiled an elaborate
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 12:17 AM

From The Chronicle, 7/28/2006

Professor Althouse's thoughtful piece on the potential hazards of blogging from a few years back caught my eye.  For the unfamiliar, the professor she refers to in the final graf, Juan Cole, was reputedly denied a tenured position at Yale because
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Monday, February 25, 2008 8:27 PM

From The Wired Carmpus, Feb. 25, 2008: Facebook is Still Passe

Erick Schonfeld from TechCrunch reported Friday that the four-year honeymoon period with Facebook just might be over. He bases that assertion on statistics from comScore, a marketing research firm, along with a couple of quasi-descriptive line graphs.
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 8:07 PM

From The Wired Campus, Feb. 19, 2008

Teaching Journalism Through a Role-Playing Game Online games have been developed to train firefighters, soldiers, and others preparing for fast-paced jobs. So why not a game to train journalists? Nora Paul, director of the Institute
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Saturday, February 16, 2008 1:50 PM

Editor's letter contains important lessons for professor

By Ernest WigginsJ-Ed Committee Chair An editor's recent recommendation of a student I've been mentoring offered me some valuable lessons I'd like to share with you. I'd been mentoring Chris, as I'll call him, since he arrived on campus in the fall
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Thursday, February 14, 2008 7:53 PM

From the Chronicle's Wired Campus Newsletter ~ 2/14/2008

U. of Texas Professor Praises Wikipedia Scholars often take swipes at Wikipedia, claiming that it dumbs down education and encourages intellectual laziness. Some professors have even banned their students from using it for research. But in an article
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Friday, February 08, 2008 8:23 AM

From The Wired Campus, Feb. 7, 2008

Union U. Uses Facebook to Post Updates After Tornado Rips Through Campus When a tornado struck Union University this week, administrators used a variety of Web tools, including the institution’s Facebook page, to post up-to-the-minute
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Thursday, February 07, 2008 11:43 PM

Update on public event policy from the IU SPJ Web site

Friday, February 1, 2008 At IU, public finally means public The Indiana University Student Foundation passed a new policy Thursday that ensures that a public event is open to members of the press.The policy change comes after Meghan O'Sullivan,
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