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July 29, 2010
Campus in Lincoln wins workplace honor (Bloomington Pantagraph)
LINCOLN -- Lincoln Christian University is one of the best colleges in the nation to work for, according to a new survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Chicago State may give freshmen free iPads (Chicago Tribune)
Chicago State University is the latest local school to jump on the iPad bandwagon. The South Side university next week will decide whether to provide all full-time freshmen, and the faculty who teach them, with free Apple iPads this fall. It is expected to cost about $335,300 for 700 of the devices.

Booth School of Business names new dean (Crain's Chicago Business)
(Crain's) -- The University of Chicago's Booth School of Business has named a new dean. The school chose Sunil Kumar, a senior associate dean at Stanford University's business school who has a doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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