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COMFORT ZONE The Gen-1 Theme House at the University of Cincinnati gives first-generation freshmen a place to settle in to college life (a graduate assistant, Abena Amoah, far left, advises LaShayna Murry) and find friends (from left, Yah'schild Israel, Julianna Langmajer and, in the kitchen, Jennifer Abrefa, Amber Lofton and Obey Davis).

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By DANA JENNINGS
Published: July 20, 2009

As thousands of low-income, first-generation freshmen flock to campus in the next two months, many, despite their intelligence and optimism, will arrive only to be gone in an academic eye blink. Just 11 percent of them earn a bachelor’s degree after six years, according to the Pell Institute, compared with 55 percent of their peers.
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ROLE MODELS "There's nobody in your world to show you," says Judith Mause, program coordinator, of navigating a university.

That fact was frustrating administrators at the University of Cincinnati, where more than 40 percent of its 5,000 freshmen this fall will be the first in their families to go to college. In its mission to get low-income, first-generation students through its doors, the university was succeeding. But once in, many were failing.

“These students find themselves on campus, and overwhelmed quickly,” says Stephanie A. Cappel, the executive director of Partner for Achieving School Success, a center devoted to university-community partnerships and outreach programs.“They don’t even know what questions to ask.”

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Laptop? Check. Student Playlist? Check. Classroom of the Future? Check.
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The School of One pilot program is conducted in a converted library at Dr. Sun Yat Sen Middle School 131 in Chinatown. It consists mainly of students working on laptop computers to complete math lessons.

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By JENNIFER MEDINA
Published: July 21, 2009

The seating arrangements are compared to airport traffic patterns. The student schedules are called playlists. And lesson plans are generated by a complicated computer algorithm for the 80 students in the class.

This could be the school of the future, according to the schools chancellor, Joel I. Klein, who visited Middle School 131 in Chinatown on Tuesday to promote a pilot program, the School of One.

The program, conducted in a converted library, consists mainly of students working individually or in small groups on laptop computers to complete math lessons in the form of quizzes, games and worksheets. Each student must take a quiz at the end of each day; the results are fed into a computer program to determine whether they will move on to a new topic the next day.

Mr. Klein said the program would allow learning in a way that no traditional classroom can, because it tailors each lesson to a student’s strengths and weaknesses, as well as the child’s interests.

“The model we are using throughout the United States in kindergarten-to-12th-grade education is fundamentally the same as it was 100 years ago,” Mr. Klein said.

Now, he added, “we’re looking in a way that I don’t think anyone has looked at — at the way children learn, pacing them at their own pace, all of it tied to the mastery of content and skill and achievement.”

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Boston business school offers master’s in ethics
Degree was added in response to recent financial scandals

By Sean Sposito, Globe Correspondent | July 22, 2009

The New England College of Business and Finance is hoping to carve out a new niche by offering a master’s degree in business ethics and compliance.

The Boston school, which caters mainly to about 650 adults doing online course work, says the degree is a first, and was conceived partly in response to the rash of financial world scandals in recent years.

There are about 20 students enrolled in the program, which began in January, according to Howard E. Horton, the college’s president, but over the next 12 months he expects enrollment to grow to about 100. The degree program, which is taught exclusively online, lasts 15 months and features courses such as Governance, Ethics and Compliance, the Culture of Ethics and Competition, and Conducting Internal Investigations.

“We felt that it was important to put the ethics right front and center,’’ Horton said. “In the past, business degrees have focused on maximizing shareholder wealth and looking at common stock as the barometer for a company’s success.’’

While other schools offer master’s degrees in business administration that emphasize ethics studies, Horton said the New England College of Business and Finance ethics degree is different.

“It allows for a business professional or student to be full bore in this area, and does not require them to get a typical MBA education along the way,’’ he said. “It allows an employer to know that a graduate has deep competencies in these areas.’’

W. Michael Hoffman, executive director of Bentley University’s Center for Business Ethics, said that since the 1980s there has been a movement to provide formal ethics training. For instance, the Waltham school offers an MBA with a concentration in business ethics, and other schools nationwide offer business doctorates that include a heavy dose of ethics studies.

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The Boston school, which caters mainly to about 650 adults doing online course work, says the degree is a first, and was conceived partly in response to the rash of financial world scandals in recent years.

There are about 20 students enrolled in the program, which began in January, according to Howard E. Horton, the college’s president, but over the next 12 months he expects enrollment to grow to about 100. The degree program, which is taught exclusively online, lasts 15 months and features courses such as Governance, Ethics and Compliance, the Culture of Ethics and Competition, and Conducting Internal Investigations.

“We felt that it was important to put the ethics right front and center,’’ Horton said. “In the past, business degrees have focused on maximizing shareholder wealth and looking at common stock as the barometer for a company’s success.’’

While other schools offer master’s degrees in business administration that emphasize ethics studies, Horton said the New England College of Business and Finance ethics degree is different.

“It allows for a business professional or student to be full bore in this area, and does not require them to get a typical MBA education along the way,’’ he said. “It allows an employer to know that a graduate has deep competencies in these areas.’’

W. Michael Hoffman, executive director of Bentley University’s Center for Business Ethics, said that since the 1980s there has been a movement to provide formal et

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SUCCESS in Silicon Valley often emerges through trial and error. Willingness to buck popular trends can help, too.
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Just ask Osman Rashid and Aayush Phumbhra, the co-founders of Chegg.com, a company that rents textbooks to college students.

When the two entrepreneurs started Chegg, then called CheggPost, in 2003, they envisioned a sort of Craigslist for college campuses, a network of university-based Web sites where students would buy and sell everything from used mattresses to textbooks. Like most Internet start-ups of that time, the plan was to make money from advertising.

It didn’t turn out that way. CheggPost gained some traction on a handful of campuses but didn’t take off. Still, the experience offered a few valuable lessons.

Mr. Rashid noticed that a majority of the traffic on the site was from students looking for used textbooks. With textbooks being the largest expense for students, after tuition and room and board, and with their cost soaring, that wasn’t surprising.

Yet the Craigslist model didn’t work. When classes ended in the spring, sellers couldn’t find many buyers online and sold their used books to the college store, often for pennies on the dollar. By the time students migrated back to campus in the fall, willing online sellers were few and far between.

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An executive at the New England Journal of Medicine and a Cornell graduate student who submitted a nonsensical paper to an open-access journal to test its peer review policy say it was accepted without comment.

Kent Anderson, executive director of international business and product development at the New England Journal, and Philip Davis, a PhD student in scientific communications at Cornell, sent a computer-generated manuscript using pseudonyms and the phony affiliation the "Center for Research in Applied Phrenology" to The Open Information Science Journal.

The journal accepted the article, which included this passage:

"In this section, we discuss existing research into red-black trees, vacuum tubes, and courseware [10]. On a similar note, recent work by Takahashi suggests a methodology for providing robust modalities, but does not offer an implementation [9]."

Bentham Science Publishers Ltd., which publishes The Open Information Science Journal, did not respond to Globe requests for comment. The case was first reported in The Scientist, with links to The Scholarly Kitchen, where Anderson and Davis blog.

They chose that journal because its publisher had been intensively seeking submissions from authors, even outside their areas of specialty, Anderson said in an interview today.

"They were claiming peer review, and something about how aggressive they were struck us as unusual," he said. "It seemed like a worthwhile experiment."

The open-access model arose to speed publication and make scientific papers more widely available by making them accessible online at no cost. Such journals typically charge authors a fee, in contrast to subscription-only journals, including the New England Journal. The sham authors were asked to pay $800 before they retracted the article.

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College in Need Closes a Door to Needy Students
By JONATHAN D. GLATER

PORTLAND, Ore. — The admissions team at Reed College, known for its free-spirited students, learned in March that the prospective freshman class it had so carefully composed after weeks of reviewing essays, scores and recommendations was unworkable.

Money was the problem. Too many of the students needed financial aid, and the college did not have enough. So the director of financial aid gave the team another task: drop more than 100 needy students before sending out acceptances, and substitute those who could pay full freight.

The whole idea of excluding a student simply because of money clashed with the college’s ideals, Leslie Limper, the aid director, acknowledged. “None of us are very happy,” she said, adding that Reed did not strike anyone from its list last year and that never before had it needed to weed out so many worthy students. “Sometimes I wonder why I’m still doing this.”

That decision was one of several agonizing ones for this small private college, celebrated for its combination of academic rigor and a laid-back approach to education that once attracted Steven P. Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, to study on its leafy campus minutes from downtown.

With their endowments ravaged by the financial markets and more students clamoring for assistance, private colleges like Reed are making numerous changes this year in staff, students, tuition and classes that they hope will tide them over without harming their reputations or their educational goals.

Reed and others have admitted more students to bolster revenue with larger classes. Many are cutting costs by freezing or reducing salaries, suspending hiring and postponing building maintenance and construction. And the cost of attendance is rising; in Reed’s case, by 3.8 percent, to nearly $50,000 a year for its 1,300 students.

But Reed has put off drastic measures like spending more of its endowment, closing some departments or selling some real estate near campus. Instead, coll

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Deval Patrick Mad Lib
Deval Patrick enjoys imparting wisdom to graduates -- so much so that he has given a similar speech at six different commencements. MIT graduates, in their typical, bookishly humorous fashion, teased the governor's frequent addresses by drawing up a Mad Libs for Friday's speech (below). Download the PDF.
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Familiar words from governor

By Tracy Jan, Globe Staff | June 6, 2009

CAMBRIDGE - The economy is in turmoil. Middle-class families everywhere are just one paycheck, one illness away from poverty. But out of crisis comes opportunity for change.

With those words, Governor Deval Patrick yesterday sent more than 2,200 MIT graduates out into the world.

"I ask you, from out of this crisis, to use all your creativity in service of change," Patrick told the robed students, their mortarboards spread in a sea of black beneath overcast skies in the university's Killian Court. "Make a new economy that expands opportunity out to the marginalized and not just up to the well-connected."

Inspiring words, for sure. But also familiar.

Most of the nuggets Patrick had already imparted at five previous commencements: his personal story and the economic gulf his family crossed in just one generation, his accounting of a White House dinner with his old friend Barack Obama, his charge for graduates to embrace change.

That repetition did not go unnoticed yesterday by the graduates, who took advantage of the occasion for some good-natured fun and wrote up a two-page worksheet drawing comparisons with previous talks.

"They've been nearly identical," said a footnote at the bottom of the worksheet, titled "19.COM: Problem Set 1, Commencement Dynamics." "Deval went to the inauguration. Barack is awesome. Deval's daughter loves the Four Seasons Hotel. That's the American Dream. Oh, but the economy sucks. Perhaps you should be a 'pragmatic idealist.' "

Jason S. Ku, a 22-year-old graduate in mechanical engineering, spent much of Patrick's speech filling out a bingo game on the front of the worksheet, marking in black pen each time Patrick uttered words like "welfare" and "economy in crisis."

"I got bingo a number of times," Ku said. He then moved onto the Mad Libs portion of the worksheet, which asked graduates to read passages lifted from Patrick's previous speeches and fill in the blank with appropriate words.

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Brandeis Halts Retirement Payments
By TAMAR LEWIN

Buffeted earlier this year by the outcry over its plans to raise money by closing its art museum and selling the collection, Brandeis University said this week that it would suspend payments to the retirement accounts of faculty and staff members starting in July.

While universities across the country have taken a wide range of actions to confront their financial problems, including layoffs and the suspension of capital projects, freezing contributions to retirement accounts is rare. Financially troubled corporations have been taking such action, but faculty and staff members at colleges and universities have traditionally enjoyed stable, and generous, benefits — and expect no less.

“There is this perception that the nonprofit world is maybe a gentler, kinder world than corporate,” said Roland King, vice president for public affairs at the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. “So some people seem to perceive this as a breach of faith, especially since many people go into nonprofit work at less salary, because the benefits are so good. But we are absolutely at a point in this economy where these sort of things have to be on the table.”

Suspending Brandeis’s contribution to retirement plans from July 1, 2009, through June 30, 2010, will cover $7.4 million of its projected $8.9 million deficit, the university’s president, Jehuda Reinharz, said in an e-mail message to the faculty and staff. In the message, Mr. Reinharz said he had planned to share the news of the suspension at the end of the week, but was pre-empted when it was announced in the May 19 edition of the student newspaper, The Justice.

Peter B. French, the executive vice president and chief operating officer at Brandeis, called the decision “the most equitable and least bad of the options” the university had been considering, adding, “I am quite confident that you will soon see more universities take the same action.”

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NYC man is arrested in killing at Harvard
Police consider possible drug link to dorm homicide

By John R. Ellement and Tracy Jan, Globe Staff | May 22, 2009

A 20-year-old New York City man surrendered to Cambridge police yesterday evening and will be charged with murdering a Cambridge man inside a Harvard University residence hall Monday afternoon, Middlesex prosecutors said last night.

Jabrai Jordan Copney is scheduled to be arraigned in Cambridge District Court today in connection with the killing of Justin Cosby, 21, according to a statement released by Gerard T. Leone Jr., the Middlesex district attorney.

Cosby was shot inside the J entryway of Kirkland House around 5 p.m. After being shot he ran up Dunster Street to Mount Auburn Street, where he collapsed. He died Tuesday morning in Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Copney is not a Harvard student, but authorities were investigating whether Cosby was selling marijuana to Harvard students as they sought his killer.

Prosecutors said in the statement that they learned that Copney "was visiting friends at the campus."

It is alleged that the defendant, along with others, confronted Cosby in a common area inside the Kirkland House," they said. "During the course of the confrontation, multiple shots were fired. One of those shots struck Cosby, resulting in his death. It is believed that the defendant and Cosby were known to one another."

The possibility that Cosby's death might be linked to the drug trade on campus raised questions among some students about the availability of drugs at Harvard.

"Since the shooting was tied to something going on with Harvard undergraduates, it's become a Harvard problem, and the university is going to have to address it properly," said Timothy Turner, a senior. "There were students put in danger. That is something the university has to pay attention to. You don't want this to continue to expand and become a larger problem in the future."

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By LISA W. FODERARO

In the old days, college students might turn to classmates for help during all-night cram sessions before final exams. Now their study buddies are just as likely to be commercial Web sites with step-by-step solutions to textbook problems, copies of previous exams, reams of lecture notes, summaries of literary classics, and real-time help with physics, math and computer science problems.

“It’s a backup,” said Chris O’Connor, a pre-med sophomore at Columbia University who relies on a popular site, Cramster, to unravel the mysteries of complex math and science problems. “Many professors who return homework won’t tell you how you got it wrong — just that it’s wrong. This way you can complete the feedback process, which is essential to learning.”

But as companies with playful names like Cramster, Course Hero, Koofers and SparkNotes are transforming the way undergraduates like Mr. O’Connor study, some professors and ethicists are questioning whether such Web sites encourage cheating and undermine the mental sweat equity of day-to-day learning by seducing students with ready-made solutions and essays.

On Course Hero, for example, students can type in a college name and course number to unearth the previous semester’s particle physics final exam. They can find examples of research papers on, say, the causes of World War I. For homework, Cramster supplies step-by-step solutions to problems in more than 200 college-level math and science textbooks.

“There are professors who don’t change their questions from semester to semester, and one of the things that this raises is how problematic that is,” said Teddi Fishman, director of the Center for Academic Integrity, which is part of the Rutland Institute for Ethics at Clemson University. “Part of what’s valuable about homework is that it gives you a safe space to practice and struggle.”

But defenders of the Web sites — including some professors — say that teachers should not be recycling exams and that studen

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By Richard Weir | Saturday, May 16, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Local Coverage
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Ever thought your relationship with your laundry machines would be just perfect if only they were a bit more chatty? Welcome to life at Wheelock College, where the washer and dryer not only do laundry, they text and e-mail.

“You can manage your time better,” said Delaney Deane, 22, of the system that allows students to log on to a Web site to see when the washing machine is free or get sent a text or e-mail when a load is done. “You don’t have to run up and down the stairs to see if a machine is free.”

With the click of a mouse, students can view an animated screen that shows the status of all the washers and dryers in the laundry room.

“It’s like a cartoon. If they are in use, they will be shaking and they will be red,” said Alyssa Howe, 20, a junior at the small Fenway college with 752 students, 93 percent of whom are female.

Sheena Witkum, 21, said she checks the Web site, laundryview.com, before leaving her room to see if her wash is done. “It’s awesome. You don’t have to stand there for 20 minutes waiting for it to finish,” she said.

The texting Maytags are part of a glistening new $24 million eco-friendly student center and dormitory complex.

Ed Jaques, Wheelock’s director of facilities, said students especially appreciate the washing-machine wizardry, although he quipped that some feel the era of the robot-slave Laundromat has not got far enough. Some, he said, have asked him: “When will you be able to have it fold our laundry, too?”

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Tufts program offers degree to community workers
By Associated Press | Saturday, May 16, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Your Career
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BOSTON — Fran Smith was so busy fundraising for Boston nonprofits, advocating for public school students or working with teenagers that she never had the time or money for graduate school.

Meanwhile, professor James Jennings was looking around his public policy classes and seeing very few students with the community experience he felt could enrich his lessons.

All that changed when Jennings created the Tufts University Neighborhood Fellows program, which offers a free graduate education to longtime organizers and activists. In exchange, the fellows bring their real-world wisdom, knowledge of urban neighborhoods and diversity to the classroom.

"I would have never been able to access support at Tufts," said Smith, who earned her degree in one year before returning to work with nonprofits in Boston. But Tufts "wasn’t just giving me an opportunity. I was making a major contribution."

Jennings, a professor in Tufts’ Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, started the program about five years ago because he was concerned with a lack of students of color and actual practitioners in his classroom. His goal was to recruit people who work in low-income and urban areas.

The problem, he knew, was people who dedicate their life to community work often make far less than their counterparts in the private sector, and their employers rarely can afford to give them time off to attend class. So he worked with Tufts administrators to get the $38,000 tuition waiver.

The Neighborhood Fellows, who are nominated by their peers, enter Tufts’ masters of public policy program. The program takes at least a year, and many fellows continue working, taking advantage of Tufts’ flexible schedule.

A number of universities recruit experienced community activists, and public policy graduate programs typically welcome mid-career students, said Laurel McFarland,

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