Imagine an industry based on a product that is essentially free and endlessly reproducible. The product can be accessed – and customized – for virtually no cost by anyone with the right equipment and skills.

Intellectuals, public officials, business and civil-society leaders and political commentators have complained about South African universities' lack of "visibility". For some, universities have not addressed the myriad economic and social-development

By John Garlock Posted: Friday, May 09, 2008 at 6:36 p.m. KIRKSVILLE, MO. -- Dozens of news jobs are up for grabs in northeast Missouri. Maritz Research in Kirksville has the "now hiring" signs up.

Kent Krabbe is executive director of Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund, a quasi-state agency that provides automobile insurance to eligible Maryland residents who have been turned down by two private carriers or canceled by one. Krabbe recently spoke to

What do you do when you need employees in an industry perpetually short of workers? For the local construction industry, the answer is to build a program to build up the industry. In May, Hartnell College broke ground on the Center for Applied Technology