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November 1, 2005
| National On-Campus Report - November 1, 2005 - Full Issue … |
| Community and Diversity on Campus: An Anthropologist’s View In the recently published book My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student, Northern Arizona University anthropologist Cathy Small observes U.S. undergraduate culture as a student rather than as a faculty member. Small, a professor in her 50s, entered her university as an undeclared freshman student and lived among other students in an on-campus residence hall. |
| Balancing Student and Faculty Academic Freedom Academic freedom is shared among faculty, students, and the administration. As a result, it’s not surprising that resolving academic freedom disputes requires cooperation between these segments of the campus. The best way to strike the right balance is to make the faculty and students partners in pursuing it. |
| Using Blackboard to Sustain Student Organizations By Susan A. Vowels, Washington College, Maryland Anyone who has advised student organizations knows the challenges presented by the constant turnover in student membership and leadership. Ensuring that information from previous student administrations is available to current group members is a daunting task. Even keeping track of documents over the course of a school year can sometimes be problematic as students join and leave organizations. |
| Campus Capsules Facebook helps student find out who damaged his scooter; Panhellenic association agrees to stop using Facebook in recruitment; Should alumni magazines run notices of same-sex partnerships? |
| Updates Student Debt and Default; Solomon Amendment |
