A chapter of the book is available at this Web site:Last month, the IU Kokomo campus adopted a "forgiveness policy." Former students whose grade-point average is low now have the opportunity to have the average recalculated minus poor grades so they can re-enter the university with a clean slate.
"I simply think it's a great idea and it's long overdue," said IU Kokomo Chancellor Emita Hill. "When people make a false start at the beginning of their lives and come back 10 or 20 years later, they should have a chance to have a fresh start."
The policy stipulates that students must be pursuing their first university degree and must have been out of the IU system for at least three years.
For more on the policy, call the IU Kokomo Office of Academic Affairs at 765-455-9227.
Balancing the amount of time faculty member allot to the pillars of academia -- teaching, research and service -- is no longer a problem at the University of Iowa. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, faculty will have the opportunity to make an individualized time division proposal good for up to two years.
Under the new plan, the Chronicle reported, professors will set their own schedule for teaching, research and service and may devote all of their time to any one of those tasks.
Is literary publishing likely to achieve legitimacy on the Internet? Will "E-books" replace printed text? While the answers remain uncertain, an IU Bloomington staff member has had his book published by Overdrive Press, a Cleveland, Ohio-based electronic publisher.
Michael D. Main, a computer support technician at IUB's Main Library, is the author of Apollo: An American Life, cited recently by an EXCITE! /AOL NetFind reviewer as "perhaps the next great American novel."
A chapter of the book is available at this Web site:
http://php.indiana.edu/~mmain/ap1txted.html
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