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The posting below is a review by Carol Everly Floyd of the book, New Players, Different Game: Understanding the Rise of For-Profit Colleges and Universities, by William G. Tierney and Guilbert C. Hentschke. The review originally appeared in Planning for Higher Education. January – March, 2009. Planning for Higher Education. 36(4): 46-48.Copyright © 1998-2009 by Society for College and University Planning (www.scup.org). Reprinted with permission. Planning for Higher Education book reviews appear at: (www.scup.org/phe).

Rick Reis
reis@stanford.edu
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Folks:

The posting below looks at the accountability movement in higher education and how it will impact department chairs. It is by by David J. Malik, former chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and currently Chancellor’s Professor at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and N. Douglas Lees, chair of the Department of Biology at Indiana University- Purdue University Indianapolis and author of Chairing Academic Departments(Anker, 2006). They can be reached at: dmalik@iupui.edu, nlees@iupui.edu.

The article appeared in The Department Chair: A Resource for Academic Administrators, Winter 2009, Vol. 19, No. 3. For further information on how to subscribe, as well as pricing and discount information, please contact, Sandy Quade, Account Manager, John Wiley & Sons, Phone: (203) 643-8066 (squadepe@wiley.com). or see: http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-DCH.html Reprinted with permission.

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Rick Reis
reis@stanford.edu
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The posting below looks at Europe’s efforts to create a common doctoral degree. It is by Alexandra Bitusikova, and it appeared in Academe Online http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2009/JF/Feat/bitu.htm, and was taken from the January-February, 2009, Volume 95, Number 1 issue of Academe, a publication of the American Association of University Professors http://www.aaup.org/AAUP Bitusikova, is a senior adviser to the European University Association (EUA) in Brussels, Belgium. She has been running the EUA programs on doctoral education in Europe that led to the establishment of the EUA Council for Doctoral Education in 2008. More information is available at www.eua.be/cde. Comments on the article can be sent to: pkrebs@wheatonma.edu© 2009, American Association of University Professors. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission.

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Rick Reis
reis@stanford.edu
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Folks:

The posting at how a toxic academic environments can lead to loss in writing productivity – and some things to do about it. It is by Gina J Hiatt, Ph.D and is from the Academic Ladder – Get help with the climb, which can be found at: [http://academicladder.com] © 2008 Dissertation Coach, reprinted with permission.

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Rick Reis
reis@stanford.edu
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Folks:

The posting below looks at an interesting new project on the design and practice of general education. It is by Carol Geary Schneider, president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, [AC&U] in an article that appeared in Liberal Education, Vol. 94, No. 3 Summer, 2008 [http://www.aacu.org/liberaleducation] ©2009, AAC&U. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission.

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Rick reis
reis@stanford.edu
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