According to a Chronicle of Higher Education analysis of 10 public four-year institutions in Texas (including Lamar University), business majors and education majors are typically exposed to only a handful of writing-intensive courses—fewer than five out of the 40 or so courses needed for a degree, on average, for business majors, and fewer than eight courses for education majors. By contrast, history majors typically take 14 courses that require 10 or more pages of writing. Kyle Boudreaux, Center for Distance Education, shared with CTLE that Blackboard 9.1 has an anti-plagiarism feature called SafeAssign. Faculty can submit all of their student's work to check for plagiarism and receive a report, usually within a few hours. The recently published book Academically Adrift by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa has created quite a stir. They will be participating in a Live Chat with the Authors session on Monday, February 14 at 3:00 p.m. You can join the conversation and share your thoughts on how we can create better learning opportunities for all students as well as if you agree or disagree with Arum and Roksa's assertion that for many students, four years of college make little difference in their ability to write and synthesize knowledge. Go ahead and save March 23, 2011. Dr. Bob Noyd, Air Force Academy, will be on campus all day giving a series of talks on faculty professional development. Watch the CTLE website for more information.