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The article discusses the website All Academic, which had raised money by selling conference materials like papers that had been given at scholarly conferences. Matthew B. Johnson of the City University of New York said that he was not aware that his work was available for purchase. All Academic's Steve Stolp apologized that people did not know that the the organization was selling the papers and said that it was a way to recoup costs. The authors did not receive royalties and this might prevent them from submitting the papers to other journals.

Reports on the research paper titled "Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy," by three students of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) submitted to the ninth World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics scheduled to be held in Orlando, Florida in July 2005. Information on the how the MIT students produced the research paper; Background of the students who authored the research paper.

The article presents a calendar of events related to higher education. A symposium on microcomputers in medical education will be held on March 28-29, 1988 at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. The annual convention of the Council for Exceptional Children titled "Marking Monumental Progress" will be held on March 28-April 1, 1988 in Washington, D.C. A conference on the manufacture and use of alkaline paper titled "Touchstone Seminar: The Paper Chase" will be held on March 29-31, 1988 in Madison, Wisconsin.

The article offers a preview on the Paper-Art Workshop for Rosh Hashana at Yeshiva University Museum on September 10, 2017, previews the book fair "Popupmania" at the Brooklyn Expo Center on September 10, and reviews the theatrical performance "That Chemistry Show," by Borislaw Bilash.

The article discusses decision of Panama to host the world's largest anticorruption conference and challenges being faced by Panama to revamp its image after Panamanian law firm created thousands of offshore companies, allowing the wealthy to hide income, leak of legal documents Panama Papers.

The article describes the newspaper conference at Columbia University's journalism school. Representatives from the "New York Times," "American Prospect," and the "Nation" attended and addressed hybrid platforms, interactive graphics, and the issue of blogs. Jill Abramson, managing editor for the "New York Times," cited the motion picture "Dark Victory." The "Columbia Journalism Review" examined the possibility of newspapers protesting unauthorized online distribution.

Reports on the emerging trend of providing child care during conventions in the U.S. List of academic organizations that allow child care services during conventions; Cost of the services; Age range of children being brought to the meetings.

The author, a professor of English at Arizona State University, discusses the value of academic conferences and offers recommendations for how to get the most out of attending a conference. Topics include the importance of networking with others at a conference for career development, how to give a presentation in a professional manner, and the need to avoid making negative or critical remarks unless talking with people one knows very well.

The article reports on the decision of the U.S. Department of Defense to accelerate the review of around 100 scientific papers it prevented to be presented in the twenty-sixth International Technical Symposium in California. Richard J. Wollensak, president of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, has confirmed the decision. Industry scientists who authored some of the papers are said to be among those who were affected by the prevention of such presentation.

The article reports on the role of commentators and the audience during conference proceedings. It states that in a traditional conference session, the role of commentator may seem obvious. Commentators have little time to make their case and are speaking to an audience that has just heard the papers. Decades ago, conference program committees would identify commentators for each panel. But nowadays, program committees planning large meetings are apt to ask, or require, that those proposing a panel also name the commentators. Members of the audience are, in their own ways, respondents, and can make the difference between an electric session and a boring one.

A personal narrative is presented about the author's experience of reacting to responses of his paper "The Absent Presence" that he posted on his blog rather than presenting it at the 2009 Modern Language Association's convention.

The article presents the deadlines for passing abstracts of papers for possible presentation at various conference in the U.S. The acceptance of proposals for the annual convention of the Midwest Region of National Association of Academic Affairs Administrators will be on April 25, while for the humanities and technology will be on April 30. The submission of applications for the introduction of research papers at the joint symposium of the Association of Caribbean Studies will be in May 1.

The article reports that several academics who presented papers at the American Psychological Association convention in Los Angeles, California put their work on a mainframe computer at the University of Houston at University Park so their colleagues could read them on the Bitnet network. Putting the papers on the network allowed people to read them in advance and to avoid information overload problem.

The article reports on the delay in the submission of the State Department's U.S. national paper on the United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development. The paper contains reports on the United States policy slated for the development of third-world and fourth-world countries. Like those of the other countries, the U.S. paper was held up due to some uncertainties on the national policies on the transfer of scientific and technological knowledge to the less-developed world.

The article presents an exploration into the proper methods of attending and participating academic conferences as a college professor. The importance of keeping up with fellow academes within an individual field is stressed and advice is given for submitting work and garnering the most benefits from meetings. Advice for submitting papers includes attention to quality over quantity and also attending to the logistics of good oratory skills. Casual suggestions to enjoy the location and entertainment aspects of the venues are also given.

This article discusses protests and demonstrations during the 2004 U.S. Republican National Convention in New York City. Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City banned many demonstrations at the Convention, and a series of emails that have surfaced in 2006 note that many of the protests were banned for political reasons.

The article presents the deadlines for papers to be presented in educational congresses in the U.S. for 1986 including on "American Philosophy and the U.S. Constitution" on November 1, "Perceiving Nature: How the Humanities, Arts, and Sciences View Our World" on November 1 and "Victorian Scandals: Decorum and Its Enemies" on November 10.

The article presents a summary of deadlines for papers which are of interest to those in higher education in the United States. The deadline for proposals for possible presentations at the conference, "Science, Technology, and Industrialization in the Third World," is on July 20, 1986. The deadline for proposals for possible presentations at the annual conference of the Society of Mediterranean Studies, is on July 30, 1986.

The article reports on the decision of U.S. Department of Defense officials to prevent a large number of scientific papers from being read at the 26th International Technical Symposium of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers in San Diego, California at which Soviet scientists were present. The move is said to be part of a tightening up of security controls in the country. This made many scientists at the meeting frustrated and angry.

The article discusses the meeting of "The New York Times" newspaper editors on journalism in the digital platforms of the newspaper held on June 11, 2014.

It is an extraordinary number for extraordinary times: $1.1 trillion in aid, to be pumped into the world's financial bloodstream. For the leaders gathered in London last week, it was tangible evidence that their economic summit meeting had yielded impressive results. Yet on closer inspection, the $1 trillion figure looks as wishful as the soaring words in the communique issued by the Group of 20. Some of the money has yet to be pledged, some is double-counted and some would be counted in a ''synthetic currency'' that is not actually real money. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Discusses how the news staff of several political publications from Washington, D.C. have relocated temporarily to Boston, Massachusetts, in order to cover the Democratic National Convention. Efforts of newspapers to publish special daily editions filled with convention news; Competition between the newspapers; Cost of publishing daily.

The author relates several incidents that happened at academic meetings. He recalls a small gray mouse that scampered back and forth under the table at a session, called "The comic vision" during the Modern Language Association meeting. A friend of his told him about a guest speaker who had passed the 19-minute mark in his allotted 20 minutes.

The article reports that the scientists were prohibited to attend the two sessions of a technical symposium held in Washington. The entry of scientists and engineers was restricted in order to avert the exportation of military technology to Soviet Union and few other countries. Only those scientists were allowed to attend the sessions who signed a statement verifying that they were American citizens and will not leak any information. The society and the Defense Department of the U.S. have agreed upon the decision of the organizers of the symposium. The symposium was sponsored by the International Society for Optical Engineering.

The article reports that the editorial advantages, financial problems and legal pitfalls of student newspapers' independence from college and university administrations were major topics discussed at the seventh national congress of the U.S. Student Press Association held in Valparaiso, Indiana. Association executive director Robert Johnston said that student have as much to say and as much right to say it the way see it, as anybody on campus.

The article discusses the history of the Modern Language Association (MLA) in response to criticism in 2014 of the organization's annual convention. Details are given describing the goals of the MLA since its founding in 1892 to promote modern literature in comparison to Greek and Latin classical literature. Different phases in the growth and development of the MLA are charted. Comments are particularly given noting and criticizing phases of nostalgia in the institution's culture.

Discusses several issues affecting college education in the U.S. Highlights of the 2003 annual convention of the Modern Language Association; Decline in the use of parentheses and slashes to create unpronounceable puns; Criticisms regarding the criteria for the Andrew Ross Award for Dangerous Hipness.

The article highlights a session of the February 2012 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) focused on improving the process of peer review of scholarly publishing in scientific journals. Cell Press chief executive Emilie Marcus provides comments on the editorial process used by her publishing company and former "Nature and Science" journal editor Linda Miller shares her views on the sharing of data in scientific research.

Criticizes daily newspaper arts journalists for their lack of support for popular culture, as shown from the papers presented at the 2001 Popular Culture Association conference. Highlights of the conference; Description of how newspaper treat arts and features section; Statements from the conference participants.

The article discusses responses to incidents involving racism at U.S. universities and colleges by college presidents, citing studies presented at the April 2015 conference of the organization American Educational Research Association in Chicago, Illinois. Topics include the focus of college presidents on public-relations (PR) efforts, the work of bias-response teams in higher education administration, and the use of criminal-justice terminology to describe anti-bias work.

On presenting at a conference after quitting the academy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author discusses criticism of the format of academic conferences according to the article "The Scholarly Conference: Do We Want Democracy and Markets or Authority and Tradition?" by Mark Carl Rom, published in 2012 in the "Journal of Political Science Education." Topics include the lack of effective scholarly communication between college teachers, the nature of presentations related to unfinished research projects, and Rom's idea of selecting presentations by an electronic vote.

Offers advice on submitting abstracts for conference papers in colleges and universities in the U.S. Reasons behind the rejection of conference papers; Significance of attending conferences; Basis of the acceptance and rejection of abstracts.

Compares academic conferences in Japan and the United States. Difference in the number of sessions; Purpose of knowledge; Vocational imperatives of presenters; Delineation between those who read papers and those who heard them; Absence of badges in Japan; Camaraderie among college teachers.

Examines problems with academic conventions in the 1990s. The intellectual rigidity and political correctness of many such conventions; The anachronistic practices of using the conventions to present papers and to made professional connections; Difficulty in using a convention as a way to find a job; The author's proposal of using the conventions as social events, rather than strictly professional ones.

The article discusses the history of the academic organization Modern Language Association (MLA) and its annual conference since 1883. Topics include the history of literary criticism and scholarship in the U.S., the relation of the MLA to cultural and political issues, and the history of job listings for faculty positions as part of the MLA's Job Information List database.

The author, a professor of literature near retirement, reflects on the Modern Language Association (MLA) conferences he has attended throughout his career, with topics including his job interviews at several college campuses early in his career, the challenges of being promoted within his department, and the process of obtaining a tenure-track academic job.

The article discusses research by scientists at the department of educational leadership and policy studies at the University of Kansas that claims that faculty members in the United States who have foreign undergraduate degrees appear to be more productive as researchers than are those who earned their degrees domestically. The findings, which were presented at the 2009 American Educational Research Association conference, attributed the data to the fact that only the best professors from other countries are able to get jobs at American colleges.

The article discusses a conference that was held by the American Educational Research Association and a paper that was presented there by college teacher Kevin J. Dougherty and doctoral student Rebecca S. Natow, both of Columbia University. The paper addressed using performance of state colleges and universities as a way for such schools to receive more funding from their respective states. Such systems have been tried in 26 states but they are only used in 14 states to one extent or another.

The article discusses the 2008 conference of the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers held in Washington D.C. in February 2008.

The article discusses a conference of the Collegium of Black Women Philosophers held at the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center at Vanderbilt University. Philosopher Jacqueline Scott presented her paper "The Price of the Ticket: A Genealogy and Revaluation of Race." Assistant philosophy professor Donna-Dale Marcano discussed the prevalence of white philosophers. Kathryn T. Gines, organizer of the collegium, led a session allowing participants to voice their opinions.

The article focuses on a speech by the president of the University of Science and Technology of China at the Chinese-Foreign University Presidents' Forum in August 2006. The article reports that most Chinese graduate students were so desperate to reach their quota of published papers that they often missed opportunities to engage in real research.

A personal narrative is presented in which the author explores his experiences attending international conferences in his academic field.

Presents information on the conference held in Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, titled 'The Chicken: Its Biological, Social, Cultural, and Industrial History From Neolithic Middens to McNuggets. List of papers presented during the event.

The article presents deadlines for the submissions of applications, papers, and proposals for education-related activities in the U.S. Papers for possible presentation at the "Southwest Business Symposium" will be accepted until February 10, 1989. Proposals for presentations at the conference of the Association of Black Women in Higher Education will be honored until February 10, 1989. Applications for grants under the "Special Research Grants Program" will be accepted until February 27, 1989.

The article discusses the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the annual convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA), with the majority of the vacant seats in the auditorium. The MLA had planned the meeting to be mostly in person in January 2022, with some online panels and attendance. During the pandemic, Zoom meetings allowed people to attend meetings anywhere, with advantages including affordability, convenience, and a small carbon footprint.

The article presents the author's comments on the importance of promoting active learning among the students. If teachers cherish their disciplines' survival, they should consider how to meet students halfway by encouraging active learning, multigenre projects, and writing for real-world audiences or for publication. They need not jettison their favorite texts and concepts to do this. Instead of another paper about Plato's Symposium, shared only with a professor, why not conduct a symposium with chat software, asking students to role-play the speakers, defining and debating their views of love, then writing formal rebuttals to each other.

The article reports on several presentations at the Fifth International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication, held in Chicago, Illinois, from September 16 through September 18, 2005, offered evidence in the affirmative. One new study tackled that hot button of scientific publishing, the industry financing. Veronica Yank, a medical resident at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, reported on an unpublished study of so-called meta-analyses of drugs for treating high blood pressure. Scientists use peer review to judge quality in manuscript submissions to journals, grant applications, and abstract submissions for conferences.

Focuses on the World Congress of Philosophy sponsored by the Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie in Istanbul, Turkey from August 10 to17, 2003. Media coverage of the congress.

Focuses on the December 2004 convention of the Modern Language Association, held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Historical information on the association; Disputes between old-school traditionalists and the breed of postmodernists, multiculturalists, feminists and queer-theory advocates; Launch of the Annual Awards for Self-Consciously Provocative M.L.A. Paper; Preoccupation with “queerness” and sex.