The U.S. Supreme Court announced Friday that it would decide whether an individual can sue a college for violating the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, a federal law that...
Attempts to unionize professors at private colleges -- already made difficult by a two-decade-old U.S. Supreme Court decision -- suffered two legal blows in February.
Sylvan Learning Systems is extending its reach in international higher education to India. The company announced last month that it had put a down payment on a 250-acre site near Hyderabad, in south-central India, where it hopes to develop a university that would eventually enroll about 10,000 students in career-oriented programs.
Although academia is not traditionally known for high salaries, 27 private college presidents earned more than $500,000 last year, a survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education shows.
The King Faisal Foundation has announced plans to establish the first private university in Saudi Arabia. The new institution, to be called Dar al-Faisal University, is being built in the Saudi...
A new report that compares colleges by how accessible they are to needy students is drawing the ire of private-college leaders and lobbyists. The report, released last week by the Lumina Foundation...
A. Ferscha, G. Kathan, and S. Vogl. The Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, (2002)The WebWall is a system which enables multi-user communication and interaction via shared public displays and the pervasive and seamless access to the WWW in public areas via e.g. mobile phones or handheld devices. In this project, the concept for a WebWall has been elaborated and a software framework for the operation of WebWalls has been developed, By employing a strict separation of WebWall I/O technologies (like HTTP, email, SMS, WAP, EMS, MMS or even simple paging protocols found on mobile phones) from the underlying framework architecture, the physical display technologies used and the presentation logic involved, the system enables access for a range of devices.
The architecture integrates ubiquitous wireless networks (GSM, IEEE802.11b), allowing a vast community of mobile users to access the WWW via public communication displays in an ad-hoc mode. A centralized backend infrastructure hosting content posted by users in a display independent format has been developed together with rendering engines exploiting the particular features of the respective physical output devices installed in public areas like airports, train stations, public buildings, lecture halls, fun and leisure centers and even car navigation systems. A variety of different modular service classes has been developed to support the posting or pulling of WWW media elements ranging from simple sticky notes, opinion polls, auctions, image and video galleries to mobile phone controlled web browsing..