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From this morning’s Inside Higher Ed: Caifornia Community College Chancellor Resigns:

Marshall (Mark) Drummond, chancellor of the California Community Colleges system, said Wednesday that he would resign this summer to return to the job he held previously…Drummond, who was appointed chancellor of the state’s unwieldy confederation of two-year colleges in late 2003, said in an e-mail message to its employees that “[f]or a variety of reasons, I have made the difficult decision to leave the System Office and accept the position of chancellor of the Los Angeles Community College District.” He did not elaborate, but the statewide chancellor’s job is widely seen as a relatively powerless one….

Also in today’s Inside Higher Ed:

Apple introduced iTunes U, a new section within its music software where universities can publish lecture audio, promotional videos and other downloadable media for current and prospective students. Top downloads on Wednesday included a “What Is Existentialism?” lecture from the University of California at Berkeley and another called “Technical Aspects of Biofuel Development” at Stanford University. Unlike traditional podcasts, not just anyone can post material to iTunes U — universities control the content, and institutions can sign up to publish their own media relatively easily, according to Chris Bell, Apple’s director of worldwide marketing for iTunes…[According to Bell,] “It’s free to the university, it’s free to the end user, and we think it’s a great way to take the assets that universities have and really serve the public,” he said.