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AROUND ACADEME

Chair established in gaming studies
Bing Gordon has been named the first holder of the Electronic Arts Endowed Faculty Chair at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television in Los Angeles. Gordon is the founder, chief creative officer and executive vice-president of Electronic Arts, the world’s leading video game publisher. The chair will be filled every one to two years by a leading figure in interactive entertainment, who will join the faculty as a visiting professor. Gordon is no stranger to academe: he co-taught a course on video game prototype design at Stanford University, and serves as a trustee at the Urban School of San Francisco.

India shuts down private universities
More than 20,000 students are out of school in the state of Chhattisgarh in central India as a result of the India Supreme Court decision to cancel the registrations of all 108 private universities there. The state law allowing the establishment of those universities was passed three years ago in response to the high demand for higher education in a densely populated state with only two public universities. The court declared the law unconstitutional, and said it was not clearly written or well-regulated. Many of the universities were found to be unscrupulous institutions, offering questionable degrees and often set up in shopping center storefronts and small houses.
—Susan Myers Smith
 
 


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