Banned Books Week. In honor of all the books that have been banned (from Harry Potter to To Kill a Mockingbird), we strongly suggest you check out a banned book and read it this week. In public.
Moving beyond just cracking the credit hour. A new competency-based associate’s degree is poised to blow up the credit hour altogether. Total cost $5,000, according to Southern New Hampshire University. (Inside Higher Ed)
Integrating Ole Miss. Fifty years ago today, James Meredith became the first African-American student at the University of Mississippi. It took 30,000 federal troops, marshalls, and national guardsmen to get him to his first class after a violent campus uprising on a campus that was called the “Ivy League of the Southern way of life.” (Morning Edition)
Good news for trees. The latest Pew study of news consumption habits shows that the number of Americans who had read a paper newspaper in the last 24 hours is down by 50 percent since 2000. More and more people are getting their news from Twitter. (Pew)
