OLD GRAY WARES

Colleges have built so-called smart classrooms for years, equipping them with computerized projectors and other digital tools, like that at Salibury University (above). The early classrooms, however, are showing their age, and officials worry about how to maintain them. (Photograph by Kathy Pusey, Salisbury U.)

Colleges Struggle to Keep 'Smart' Classrooms Up to Date

Tech Therapy: Libraries vs. IT Departments

Why a Small Liberal-Arts College Offers Online Courses

Dueling Campus Bus Tours Promote E-Mail Services

2 New Digital Models Promise Academic Publishing for Profit

Educators Seek a Digital Upgrade for Teaching Law

RETURN TO SENDER: Professors notice when students use crude e-mail handles in their communications.

WHAT ARE THE ODDS? A new college-search site tells students if a particular institution is a reach, a target, or a safety for them given their individual admissions data.

VALUABLE AIRTIME: California State University-Stanislaus will get $4-million in its first year of leasing an unused portion of the radio spectrum for which it holds the license.

GAME THEORY: Microsoft teams up with a consortium of universities to study how to use computer games to teach middle-school students math and science.

HOT TYPE: Publishers explore two new models — one with an open-access component, one without — for turning a profit with digital works.