AS STUDENTS BEGIN THOSE PAPERS . . .
In the “long ago past,” before the Web at any rate, instructors combated student use of encyclopedia articles and other non-scholarly resources in papers. A common admonition was that student authors could only use materials from “refereed journals.” Today’s internet-enabled student often poses an even greater challenge. You might want to check out a recent report in the Chronicle of Higher Education that notes that “THIS SPRING, STUDENTS IN HISTORY COURSES at Middlebury College will find a new disclaimer on syllabi warning them that, while Wikipedia is fine for some background research, it is not to be used as a primary source.”
SEE http://chronicle.com/daily/2007/02/2007020101t.htm
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HISTORICAL STATISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES ONLINE
When you’re students are looking for just the right source for that historical data to verify what they’ve found on Wikipedia, send them to Ramsey Library’s Historical Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition (Cambridge University Press). There they’ll find the hard data on population, work and welfare, economic data, government and international relations from colonial times to the present.
http://bullpup.lib.unca.edu/scripts/redirect.pl?db=hsus.cambridge.org
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STUDENT RETENTION
First among UNC system priorities approved by the Board of Governors in May 2006 is “Student Success: Access, Retention, Graduation, and Affordability.” An ad in Presidency, a publication of the American Council on Education, describes the contents of a relatively new book by stating that “In spite of all of the programs and services to help retain students, only 50 percent of those who enter higher education actually earn a bachelor’s degree, according to the U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. Enrollment management and the retention of students remain top priorities of federal and state government, colleges, universities, and parents of students who are attending college and of students themselves. This book offers a formula for student success intended to assist colleges and universities in retaining and graduating students.” College Student Retention: Formula for Student Success Edited by Alan Seidman is available in Ramsey Library under the call number LC148.2 .C65 2005. You may also be interested in:
Retaining African Americans in higher education: challenging paradigms for retaining students, faculty, and administrators / edited by Lee Jones Publisher Sterling, Va.: Stylus Pub., 2001, ASU/LC148.2 .R48 2001
Changing student attendance patterns: challenges for policy and practice / Jacqueline E. king, Eugene L. Anderson, Melanie E. Corrigan, editors. San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2003, UNCA/LB2331.72 .N48 no.121 2003
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RESEARCH RESTRICTIONS
On March 2, the electronic Chronicle of Higher Education reported that “PUBLIC ACCESS TO PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS came under scrutiny in the U.S. House of Representatives as a panel of archivists, historians, and lawyers told a subcommittee about threats to access, and lawmakers introduced two bipartisan bills that would reform key aspects of how presidential documents are preserved and controlled.” For more, see
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