DC Digest - June 18, 2010

In Today's Issue:

  • Duke Awarded Grant for International Business Research
  • New Student Aid Rules
  • Hearing: Improving Technology Transfer
  • Federal Reminder on File Sharing


DUKE AWARDED GRANT FOR INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS RESEARCH
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business a $1.5 million grant to fund the center’s ongoing research programs from October 2010 to September 2014. Duke CIBER, one of a series of university CIBERs established by the U.S. government to promote knowledge of international business, will use part of the grant to fund the InterCultural Edge (ICE), a research program studying and promoting effective cross-cultural communications. Fuqua’s Offshoring Research Network (ORN) will also receive grant proceeds.

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Duke Awarded Grant for International Business Research (DukeNews)

NEW STUDENT AID RULES
The Obama administration proposed a broad set of rules and definitions to strengthen the federal student aid programs by protecting students from aggressive or misleading recruiting practices, providing consumers with better information about the effectiveness of career college and training programs, and ensuring that only eligible students or programs receive aid. The Department plans to closely review all the comments it receives, with the goal of publishing a final rule by November 1 so it would take effect beginning July 2011.

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Obama Administration Proposes Student Aid Rules to Protect Borrowers and Taxpayers; Key Elements of Gainful Employment on a Separate Track (Department of Education)


HEARING: IMPROVING TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
Amid continuing concern about the nation’s economic competitiveness, Congress and the Administration are examining ways to improve the commercialization of university-based research.  The House Science and Technology Committee’s Subcommittee on Research and Science Education held a hearing on June 10 to discuss best practices and policies in technology transfer, focusing on the role of the National Science Foundation. - from Association of American Universities

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From the Lab Bench to the Marketplace: Improving Technology Transfer (Committee on Science and Technology)


FEDERAL REMINDER ON FILE SHARING
The U.S. Department of Education has written a letter notifying colleges that the copyright provisions attached last fall to the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 will take effect in July. The provisions, meant to help curb illegal sharing of copyrighted material such as music files on campus networks, require institutions to educate their students on what constitutes illegal sharing; deter them from engaging in such sharing; and develop plans to “offer alternatives to illegal downloading.” - from Inside Higher Ed

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Federal Reminder on File Sharing (Department of Education)