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University of California Pressures Elsevier to Bend on Open Access

All eyes in the scholarly professional publishing industry are on market leader Elsevier to see how the company will react to a decision by of a group of prominent University of California faculty to step away from journal editorial boards until the publisher agrees to restart negotiations with the 10-campus system on a new contract […]

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How a University Took on the Textbook Industry

HOUSTON — On the third floor of a bank building near Rice University, the future of higher education is being written. Or at least, edited. Perched in lime green desk chairs, dozens of employees of OpenStax work here to transform physics, calculus and psychology materials into digital textbooks that students can study at no cost.

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How Partnering With a Local University Saved This School From Closure

In 2015, East Upper and Lower Schools—formerly East High School—in Rochester, New York entered into a unique partnership between the New York State Education Department, Rochester City School District and the University of Rochester. This Educational Partnership Organization aims to curtail a trend of academic underperformance and high rates of truancy, absenteeism and dropout, which

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This university collaboration will help you boost your career and land a job

The University of Alberta in Edmonton is collaborating with Vancouver-based RED Academy to offer short-term programs for those looking to enter the tech sector. The tech industry is growing rapidly in Alberta, with tech talent in Edmonton increasing by 26% in the last five years. This city alone employed 28,400 workers in the sector in

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PSJA student journalism project leader does well at Brown University

LAS MILPAS, RGV – The team leader of the Southwest Marketing’s group that researched the possibility of launching a regional student journalism program with the Rio Grande Guardian and FIRST RGV did well at Brown University this past summer. PSJA Southwest Early College High School Senior Kassandra Moreno completed the highly competitive 2019 Brown University

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Ubisoft and Concordia University launch worldwide video game design course

French game publishing giant Ubisoft has partnered with Montreal’s Concordia University to launch a special video game design course for use in universities around the world. The course is officially titled the ‘Game Creators’ Odyssey‘ and is available through Concordia’s online training provider KnowledgeOne. In the online course, students will be walked through the process

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University of Washington spinout Split Bio raises cash for RNA sequencing kits – GeekWire

(Split Bio Photo) University of Washington spinout Split Bio raised $560,000 in bridge financing to fund the manufacturing of kits that allow scientists to perform high throughput single-cell RNA sequencing. The new money brings Split’s total amount raised to $2 million, following a $1.2 million round last year and a $225,000 award from the National

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THE Ohio State University Loses Its Trademark Application For ‘THE’

from the THE-end dept Over the past several weeks, we have been discussing a ridiculous trademark application filed by the Ohio State University for the word “the.” This entire episode has been a painful reminder of the fallout of the permission culture that has risen up out of strict IP enforcement and an overly-permissive USPTO.

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