impoverished artifices

The University of Kentucky has developed their own in-house social network community for students, faculty and staff. Big Blue Network will allow the academic community to converse in an ever more familiar environment.

The goal is retention (they had 81% Freshman retention last year, shooting for 90% this year) and they'll be cataloging students comments, which they aren't announcing - but aren't exactly shouting about, either. Kind of like Facebook!