[FC-discuss] Free Thesis Project Released Today

[Thomas (TJ) Olsen]

the eco-activism front has had great sucfcess with a similar tactic putting together lists of  most /least eco friendly campuses i deffinately like the idea

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  From: Fred Benenson 
  To: Discussion of Free Culture in general and this organization inparticular 
  Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 9:41 PM
  Subject: Re: [FC-discuss] Free Thesis Project Released Today


  Yeah. I agree, we figure out the criteria that FreeCulture.org can judge a university on and set up a matrix. It'd be great to have it and launch it for the fall when Seniors are applying to schools. I think we could get some good mileage out of that. 

  So, Copyright Policy / Ownership of Student Work, Internet Connectivity / Filtering, Open Access @ Library, what else can we throw in? We should try and pick the most popular/high profile places rather than trying an exhaustive list. But we would obviously leave it open for people to add their w/ links, etc. 


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  On 5/5/07, Gavin Baker <grbaker at ufl.edu> wrote:
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    Right on, on both counts.

    It might be impractical to gather information on every college and
    university in the U.S., especially given that I don't know of any 
    mandatory or standardized disclosure practice. But it would be a lot
    easier to make a short list of some of the worst ones. This seems very
    well suited to our role as a student organization, and could be a good
    way to kickstart discussions at those campuses.

    Gavin

    Asheesh Laroia wrote:
    > On Fri, 4 May 2007, Fred Benenson wrote:
    >
    >> Maybe we could come up with a "worst offenders" hitlist as an org? 
    >
    > I think that would be great.  I'd love to see any sort of informative list
    > comparing universities and the extent to which they restrict students' use
    > of their work; our wiki seems an appropriate place to draw up such a 
    > table.
    >
    > In fact, now that I think about it, I'd also be interested in a similar
    > "comparison shoppers' guide" for Internet access (how filtered/restricted
    > it is) at different higher education institutions.  Later on I may start 
    > that (after finals etc.).
    >
    > -- Asheesh.
    >
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