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Campus Connection: Distance learning, paying for college and Shalala

Catching up on a couple higher education-related items …

** The Chronicle of Higher Education attended last week?s 26th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning at the Monona Terrace Convention Center, and asked a “half-dozen professors, technologists and administrators to share the struggles of teaching online.”

** Three out of four students and their parents don’t have a plan for how they’ll pay for college when they enroll, according to a new report from Sallie Mae and Gallup.

** Donna Shalala, the former chancellor of UW-Madison and the current president of the University of Miami, was detained and interrogated at Ben-Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv last month, according to several newspaper reports.