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New Law #5: Ely begins prison stretch for possessing weapons cache

Posted on April 02, 2008
Read the story fromt he Associated Press

Events #3: Measuring the effectiveness of online programs

Posted on April 02, 2008
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Publications #1: Subscribe to Workforce Management

Posted on April 02, 2008
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Events #2: Technology and Globalization Panel at Rider University in Central NJ

Posted on April 02, 2008
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Globalization Global Shifts/Digital Lives: The Future of Work and Labor in America Bart Luedeke Center Theater, Rider University, Lawrenceville Wednesday, April 9, 2008 @ 7 PM ? Chair and Discussant: Dr. Lynn Rivas, Department of...

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Ethical Issues #2: Hampshire College students protect lackof diversity

Posted on April 02, 2008
Shades of the Sixties: They stage a walk-out.Here's the AP story on it.

New Law #4: IRS request for comments on proposed withholding tax

Posted on April 02, 2008
Download IRSNotice032808.pdfHere's the IRS notice.

Opinion #2: Castagnera on agriculture as America's new economic driver

Posted on April 02, 2008
We are constantly told that ours is the Information Age. The Information Highway is the road to prosperity. Education is the answer to America's slipping supremacy in the global marketplace. If this is what you think, you may want to...

Ethical Issues #1: Hunger haunts the planet

Posted on April 02, 2008
Read the story in the LA Times

Law Primer #1: A series on qui tam whistleblower actions

Posted on April 02, 2008
Available from the Greetree Gazette

New Law #3: Kaplan dean caught in middle of whistleblower action

Posted on April 02, 2008
The former dean at Kaplan University who is accusing the for-profit institution of defrauding taxpayers of billions of dollars in a whistle-blower lawsuit has now been indicted on charges that he hacked into Kaplan's computer network to send harassing mass...

Services #1: Hobson's offers a campus social networking tool that claims to be safe and secure

Posted on April 02, 2008
Overview Bring students together around a common interest Your institution - what better topic for students to gather around? Make your social network the ideal gathering place for prospective students to begin gathering buzz for admission. Begin networking-today! With a...

Events # 1:Teaching Professor Conference

Posted on April 02, 2008
To be held in Florida, May 16-18.Register here.

Opinion #1: Castagnera on an Israeli Fencing Lesson

Posted on April 02, 2008
A Fence, Israeli style amp;lt;img src=amp;quot;http://ehg-exoteric.hitbox.com/HG?hc=we85amp;amp;cd=1amp;amp;hv=6amp;amp;ce=uamp;amp;hb=DM530226JBEZ62EN3amp;amp;n=An Israeli fencing lesson amp;amp;vcon=/Channels/Viewsamp;amp;seg=amp;amp;cmp=amp;amp;gp=amp;amp;fnl=amp;amp;pec=amp;quot; border=amp;quot;0amp;quot; width=amp;quot;1amp;quot; height=amp;quot;1amp;quot;amp;gt; An Israeli fencing lesson By Jim Castagnera July 08, 2007 Jim Castagnera is an attorney in Pennsylvania, and the associate provost/associate counsel at Rider University...

New Law #2: Environmental Rules Waived for Border Fence

Posted on April 02, 2008
Read about it in the LA Times

New Law # 1: Student newspaper wins free press case in Virginia

Posted on April 02, 2008
Federal judge rules that ban on alcohol ads is violation of first amendment.Read about it in the Chronicle of Higher Education

New Law #3: Better Contracts seen for contingent faculty

Posted on April 01, 2008
Many people used to use ?part timer? as a synonym for ?adjunct.? Increasingly, the two words can?t be assumed to be interchangeable, as one of the fastest growing job categories in higher education is the full-time instructor off the tenure...

Publications #3: Legal issues in distance education

Posted on April 01, 2008
Legal Issues in Distance Education, Binder Publication Type: Compendia Version: HardCopy Member Price: $115.00 Non-Member Price: $160.00 Edited by Deborah C. Brown, John R. Przypyszny, and Katherine R. Tromble The advent of online education - both in the form of...

Publications #2: Student Risk Management Compendium

Posted on April 01, 2008
Student Risk Management in Higher Education: A Legal Compendium, Binder Publication Type: Compendia Version: HardCopy Member Price: $120.00 Non-Member Price: $165.00 Edited by Kimberly J. Novak and Art M. Lee Managing and minimizing the risks associated with students and student-related...

Publications #1: Book on Faculty Background Checks

Posted on April 01, 2008
Who Are Your Faculty and Staff? Background Checks in Academe Publication Type: Pamphlet Version: HardCopy Member Price: $25.00 Non-Member Price: $30.00 By Barbara A. Lee, Steven D. Frenkil, Sandra J. McLelland, and Dickens Mathieu Given the proliferation of resume fraud,...

New Law #2: Law would make universities the cops

Posted on April 01, 2008
Institutions are facing the prospect of playing beat cop in the ongoing war over music and movie piracy between college students and entertainment conglomerates. Joe Dysart The U.S. House passed a bill in January that would require colleges and universities...

Law Primer #1: Study Group offers guidance on archiving digital information

Posted on April 01, 2008
Access the "Section 108" Report here/

New Law #1: A setback at the Patent Office for BlackBoard

Posted on April 01, 2008
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a preliminary decision that rejects all 44 claims Blackboard Inc. made regarding the controversial patent it was granted for an online-learning system. If upheld, the decision could have sweeping ramifications for Blackboard's...

Opinion #6: It may not be too late for "W" to achieve a Mid-East breakthrough

Posted on March 30, 2008
Stranger things have happened in the past two decades. by Jim Castagnera George W. Bush has just nine more months in office. Then he will write his memoirs, build his library and face his legacy. Many will cheer his departure....

Opinion #5: Higher Education is blooming in the Middle Eastern desert

Posted on March 30, 2008
Read all about it in the Chronicle Review.

Opinion #4: What if we had had today's technology back in 1963?

Posted on March 30, 2008
By Jim Castagnera No historian, at least none of a certain age, can see ?Vantage Point? without recalling the Zapruder Film. On November 22, 1963, Abraham Zapruder stood in Dallas?s Dealey Plaza, filming JFK?s motorcade with his 8mm Kodachrome movie....

Opinion #3: The never-ending story

Posted on March 30, 2008
New Insights Into Kennedy's Assassination Documents show that Oswald, the mob, anti-Castro Cubans, and right-wing groups really did conspire to kill the president.Read all about it in the Chronicle Review.

Publications #1: Jim Castagnera's Labor and Employment Books

Posted on March 30, 2008
Termination of Employment By: - James O. Castagnera and Patrick J. Cihon and Andrew P. Morriss Format: Binder/Looseleaf Copyright: 1984 List Price: $1,218.00 Your Price: $1,035.30 Shipping FREE Availability: In Stock See it and buy it here. Employment Law Answer...

Jobs #1: OVERSEAS TEACHING POSITION; POSSIBLE POSTING FOR YOUR LAW PROF BLOG

Posted on March 30, 2008
TEACH LAW IN ASIA ?Beginning September 1, 2008, teach law at one of Asia's most elite graduate law schools, in Seoul, Korea. Expanding global campus in Seoul, Europe, China and the U.S. See www.tlbu.ac.kr Language of instruction (and all on...

Opinion # 2: Jim Castagnera, The Fragile Younger Generation

Posted on March 30, 2008
They fight with one another. They mutilate themselves. Sometimes they even commit suicide. The Greentree Gazette, a higher education magazine for which I write, recently called them ?The Fragile Generation.? A competitor, the Chronicle of Higher Education, two weeks ago...

Opionion # 1: John Stuart Mill, Essay on Utilitarianism

Posted on March 30, 2008
The happiness which they meant was not a life of rapture, but moments of such, in an existence made up of few and transitory pains, many and various pleasures, with a decided predominance of the active over the passive, and...

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