http://www.profdig.com/news Your Source for Social News and Networking Sat, 05 Nov 2011 09:25:28 CDT en http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=selecting-the-right-chinese-students-commentary-the-chronicle-of-higher-education http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=selecting-the-right-chinese-students-commentary-the-chronicle-of-higher-education Sat, 05 Nov 2011 08:25:28 CDT http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=selecting-the-right-chinese-students-commentary-the-chronicle-of-higher-education
You may have seen him on campus. He's a Chinese student who aced his SAT's, but once enrolled as a freshman he sits quietly by himself either in the library cubicle or at the back of the class. He has only Chinese friends, and thinks sports and parties are beneath him. Day by day, he misses China, and is uninterested in America. And year by year he multiplies on American campus

12 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=portfolio-guide-what-not-to-do http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=portfolio-guide-what-not-to-do Sat, 05 Nov 2011 08:12:21 CDT http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=portfolio-guide-what-not-to-do
12 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=a-palestinian-group-creates-a-generation-of-inventors-planet-academe-chronicle-com http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=a-palestinian-group-creates-a-generation-of-inventors-planet-academe-chronicle-com Sat, 05 Nov 2011 07:18:16 CDT http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=a-palestinian-group-creates-a-generation-of-inventors-planet-academe-chronicle-com
Doha, Qatar-In 2001, to the distress of his family, Aref F. Husseini resigned from his jobs as a senior engineer with Intel and as an adjunct professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He bought a bag and filled it with some tools and electronic components-pliers, a soldering iron, transistors, and the breadboards used as bases for electrical circuits. He began to visit

13 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=chinese-students-prove-a-tricky-fit-on-u-s-campuses-global-the-chronicle-of-higher-education http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=chinese-students-prove-a-tricky-fit-on-u-s-campuses-global-the-chronicle-of-higher-education Sat, 05 Nov 2011 05:53:18 CDT http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=chinese-students-prove-a-tricky-fit-on-u-s-campuses-global-the-chronicle-of-higher-education
Dozens of new students crowded into a lobby of the University of Delaware's student center at the start of the academic year. Many were stylishly attired in distressed jeans and bright-colored sneakers; half tapped away silently on smartphones while the rest engaged in boisterous conversations. Eavesdropping on those conversations, however, would have been dif

11 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=its-time-for-texas-am-the-chronicle-of-higher-education http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=its-time-for-texas-am-the-chronicle-of-higher-education Sat, 05 Nov 2011 05:20:21 CDT http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=its-time-for-texas-am-the-chronicle-of-higher-education Selfless service, a core value of Texas A&M, inspired world-renowned researcher Dr. Leonard Berry to immerse himself in the culture and systems of the Mayo Clinic, emerging with practical, business-driven solutions to help our nation's doctors and healthcare workers.

13 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=higher-education-college-is-too-easy-for-its-own-good-latimes-com http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=higher-education-college-is-too-easy-for-its-own-good-latimes-com Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:12:22 CDT http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=higher-education-college-is-too-easy-for-its-own-good-latimes-com
21 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=testing-students-to-evaluate-teachers-nytimes-com http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=testing-students-to-evaluate-teachers-nytimes-com Tue, 31 May 2011 13:45:37 CDT http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=testing-students-to-evaluate-teachers-nytimes-com
Already too much student time is spent on testin

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Huge medical school debts - doctors now graduate owing more than $155,000 on average, and 86 percent have some debt - are w

23 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=study-its-not-teacher-but-method-that-matters-sfgate http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=study-its-not-teacher-but-method-that-matters-sfgate Fri, 27 May 2011 12:14:52 CDT http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=study-its-not-teacher-but-method-that-matters-sfgate
11 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=outsourcing-education-someone-in-india-corrected-your-college-paper http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=outsourcing-education-someone-in-india-corrected-your-college-paper Tue, 17 May 2011 10:45:28 CDT http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=outsourcing-education-someone-in-india-corrected-your-college-paper
13 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=4-reasons-why-you-do-need-a-college-degree-%7C-the-smoking-jacket http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=4-reasons-why-you-do-need-a-college-degree-%7C-the-smoking-jacket Tue, 17 May 2011 10:05:42 CDT http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=4-reasons-why-you-do-need-a-college-degree-%7C-the-smoking-jacket
12 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=the-art-of-revolution-colleen-gillard-georgia-wells-international-the-atlantic http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=the-art-of-revolution-colleen-gillard-georgia-wells-international-the-atlantic Mon, 09 May 2011 09:43:12 CDT http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=the-art-of-revolution-colleen-gillard-georgia-wells-international-the-atlantic
13 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=how-the-notion-that-a-college-degree-is-essentially-worthless--new-york-magazine http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=how-the-notion-that-a-college-degree-is-essentially-worthless--new-york-magazine Wed, 04 May 2011 08:39:30 CDT http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=how-the-notion-that-a-college-degree-is-essentially-worthless--new-york-magazine
13 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=7-countries-where-graduate-school-is-a-fraction-of-us-costs http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=7-countries-where-graduate-school-is-a-fraction-of-us-costs Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:53:01 CDT http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=7-countries-where-graduate-school-is-a-fraction-of-us-costs
I ponder this,

12 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=survey-finds-small-increase-in-professors%E2%80%99-pay-nytimes-com http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=survey-finds-small-increase-in-professors%E2%80%99-pay-nytimes-com Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:41:46 CDT http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=survey-finds-small-increase-in-professors%E2%80%99-pay-nytimes-com
12 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=an-anti-college-backlash-professor-x-national-the-atlantic http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=an-anti-college-backlash-professor-x-national-the-atlantic Sun, 03 Apr 2011 14:39:59 CDT http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=an-anti-college-backlash-professor-x-national-the-atlantic
11 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=request-for-profs-e-mails-on-wisconsin-labor-strife-sparks-outrage-usatoday-com http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=request-for-profs-e-mails-on-wisconsin-labor-strife-sparks-outrage-usatoday-com Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:16:29 CDT http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=request-for-profs-e-mails-on-wisconsin-labor-strife-sparks-outrage-usatoday-com
10 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=global-data-storage-capacity-totals-295-exabytes-usc-study http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=global-data-storage-capacity-totals-295-exabytes-usc-study Sat, 12 Feb 2011 04:44:20 CST http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=global-data-storage-capacity-totals-295-exabytes-usc-study
12 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=yale-to-sign-agreement-with-peru-univ-%7C-yale-daily-news http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=yale-to-sign-agreement-with-peru-univ-%7C-yale-daily-news Sat, 12 Feb 2011 02:52:30 CST http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=yale-to-sign-agreement-with-peru-univ-%7C-yale-daily-news
Rector Victor Aguilar will join University President Richard Levin at 11:30 a.m. in Woodbridge Hall to sign an agreement about housing the artifacts at a new collaborative center at the

10 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=2-students-guilty-in-univ-of-georgetown-dorm-bust http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=2-students-guilty-in-univ-of-georgetown-dorm-bust Sat, 12 Feb 2011 02:36:45 CST http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=2-students-guilty-in-univ-of-georgetown-dorm-bust
Charles Smith and John Perrone pleaded guilty in federal court to manufacturing the drug DMT, a hallucinogen.

Smith, who was attending Georgetown University, and Perrone, a Universi

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