Archives: July 2008

NAFSA will be updating the 1996 publication “Guide to Educational Systems around the World.” Updates will be available on the ACE (Admissions and Credential Evaluation) Network section of the NAFSA website (http://www.nafsa.org/knowledge_community_network.sec/recruitment_admissions/admissions_and_credential). The updates will be available to all international educators, regardless of membership status. The RAP national team would like to have the first set of updates available to post in mid-September, in pdf format. This is super awesome all around!

There was a discussion on the inter-l today about the Inside Higher Ed article about bogus degrees, listing the two links below of the history of diploma mills and buyers of fake diplomas: http://www.spokesmanreview.com/breaking/story.asp?ID=15898 and http://www.spokesmanreview.com/data/diploma-mill/

AACRAO’s out-of-print catalog is currently unavailable. http://www.aacrao.org/publications/Books_on_Demand.pdf Apparently, “UMI is trying to sell their Books on Demand business—and that in the interim, no service will be available. It could take months to sell and transition, so the best thing to do is check at our website periodically.” This is a bummer since the brilliant workshop report on Canada and the equally useful Newly Independent States (former Soviet States) books are both out of print yet are still, hands down, the best written resources on their respective subjects.