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Professors raising teens appreciate the flexibility and community of academic jobs.
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Robert M. Groves, who will start work at the university in August, admires the university’s Jesuit perspective toward learning.
The Digital Campus
Christine Johnson likes practical tools like Google Maps and her good old-fashioned BlackBerry.
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Fahima Aziz has promised a collaborative leadership style for Bangladesh’s young university, which has seen rapid turnover at the top.
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One college bookstore is offering discount rentals of the slim computers; students without computers can read course materials online.
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The state is building 81 community-college courses from online materials—and learning that adapting content for students takes more than a mouse click.
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In British Columbia, the University of Victoria had a rabbit-multiplication problem. When it responded with subtraction, a public-relations fracas ensued.
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Vietnam’s university entrance exams are rough on students and rougher still on a collection of ancient stone turtles.
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More than 30 years after the U.S. ambassador was airlifted from the embassy rooftop in Saigon with the flag tucked under his arm, a new American flag is going up in the city. This one won’t be flying over the embassy. The Stars and Stripes, as well as the Texas state flag, are going up at the…
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Charismatic as well as politically astute, Ton Nu Thi Ninh is a patient woman — up to a point. As a high-ranking member of Vietnam’s Communist Party, and regarded as the most powerful woman in the country, she had to be. But for far too long Ms. Ninh has watched the abysmal state of Vietnam’s…