Fee market selection: find a niche or go extinct | Simon Baker | Times Higher Education | 7 October 2010
Universities lacking distinctive missions will disappear, pro v-c warns. Too many universities lack a distinctive mission and risk being eaten up in the “bloody” competition that may follow Lord Browne of Madingley’s review of the sector.
Yovich’s post up for grabs at Murdoch | Julie Hare & Bernard Lane | The Australian Higher Education | 06 October, 2010
MURDOCH University became a headhunter’s paradise yesterday with the announcement of the premature retirement of beleaguered vice-chancellor John Yovich. Although Yovich, 50, who was Australia’s youngest vice-chancellor when appointed more than eight years ago, will not leave the university immediately, the vacancy means four out of five positions on the senior executive committee are up for grabs.
Thinking Outside the Bottle | Scott Carlson | Chronicle of Higher Education | 1 October, 2010
The article discusses the sale and use of bottled water at U.S. universities and colleges. The International Bottled Water Association’s spokesman Tom Lauria comments on the safety of tap water in the U.S. and American University’s sustainability director Christopher O’Brien offers his university’s plan to install water-bottle filling stations in order to minimize waste. University finances, contracts with beverage companies, anti-bottled-water campaigns, and the environmental issues associated with the bottling and consumption of water are discussed. Bottled water bans at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and Muhlenberg College are profiled as are efforts to limit consumption at the University of Vermont and the Pennsylvania State University.
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