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After I completed my PhD and accepted my first tenure track full-time teaching appointment, I was assigned a faculty office...

Thanks to Tracy Mitrano for her synthesis and analysis of the new Copyright Office ruling that will allow us to...

I am not going to dismiss it with “Oh. I don't know how it really happened.” I know exactly how...

A new ruling from the United States Copyright Office that is making the rounds in higher education and blogosphere circles...

A recent blog post at the University of Venus, “ When Tenure Disappears,” argues that PhD training is limited to...

I am a self-identified web stats addict. I love logging in to Google Analytics and checking out the web stats...

When The Economist (July 24-30, 2010, p. 43), one of the world’s most influential magazines, devotes attention to academic fraud in China, the issue has reached a high level of international attention. I wrote about this issue in the broader context of Asia’s efforts to gain global academic leadership in my article “Enter the Dragons? Not so Fast” (Times Higher Education, June 17, 2010, pp. 38-39). The Economist points to a number of egregious examples of academic dishonestly, plagiarism, misuse of academic degrees and awards in China.

The 7/22 article in the NYTimes, "Windows Upgrade Helps Microsoft to a Record Quarter," got me thinking about enterprise vs...