PEW ISSUES NEW MONOGRAPH ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND ONLINE COURSES - While most U.S. universities recognize the need to defend themselves and their intellectual property by establishing clear, institution-wide policies and procedures, most are experiencing difficulty deciding what their policy should be, and finding effective ways to enforce it in a decentralized environment where policies have traditionally been debated on a unit-by-unit basis. With this in mind, the Pew Symposia on Learning and Technology committed to produce a paper "that would go beyond recommending that institutions have a policy and would give institutions some concrete advice about what that policy should be and why." The result is the new monograph, "Who Owns Online Courses and Course Materials: Intellectual Property Policies for a New Learning Environment," now available online in a downloadable PDF version CLICK: http://www.center.rpi.edu/PewSym/mono2.html. (UCEA 28 July 00)

NEW GOVERNMENT PORTAL FOR EMPLOYEES SEEKING CONTINUING HIGHER EDUCATION - There is a new workforce portal on the horizon, workers.gov, designed as a single doorway to government resources for workers and their families, even, the site's designers promise, "if what you want crosses traditional bureaucratic boundaries." Among the various gateways on the site, the "Learning" gateway is particularly impressive, uniting a mass of government data on colleges and universities, programs and scholarships in a format that is clear and easy for lay people to understand. Workers.gov is part of Vice President Al Gore's Access America initiative, and is cosponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor and the National Partnership for Reinventing Government, with help from the U.S. Departments of Education, Defense, Agriculture, Health and Human Services and Transportation. To access the site and further information CLICK: http://www.workers.gov/child.asp?intCategoryId=2. (UCEA 28 July 00)

NEW HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS SERVICE - Academic Partners, the publishers of LINGUA FRANCA and UNIVERSITY BUSINESS magazines, have announced a new publication, University Business Daily. Each weekday UBDaily selects and provides synopses for four of the top news stories that relate to higher education. Links to the original news article are also included. The news service is available at no charge, CLICK: http://www.ubdaily.com/.

For more information about Lingua Franca: The Review of Academic Life, CLICK: http://www.linguafranca.com/. For more information about University Business, CLICK: http://www.universitybusiness.com/. (CIT INFOBITS June 00 No. 24 ISSN 1521-9275)

CONDITION OF EDUCATION REPORT - The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary U.S. agency for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the United States and other countries. Each year NCES produces THE CONDITION OF EDUCATION, a report summarizing the health of education and showing changes and trends over time, regions, populations, or countries. The edition for 2000 is available at no charge, CLICK: http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2000062.

For more information about NCES, CLICK: http://nces.ed.gov/. (CIT INFO June 00 No. 24 ISSN 152-9275)