Archive for June 3rd, 2008
Confirmation
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The Path to Victory
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Tonight, Barrack Obama secured the votes needed to become the next Democratic nominee for President of the United States. The road to this point has been like no other. In some ways, it began in a village in Kenya and on a small farm in Kansas where the inspiration began and the roots were laid. [...]
The Old McCain is Back
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Watching John McCain speak tonight on the verge of the Barrack Obama clinching of the Democratic nomination, I had a couple of observations…
The Uber-observation: McCain, having secured his party’s nomination and having identified the opponent as left-leaning, is running HARD to the centre as the Anti-Bush Republican.
This isn’t a surprise… I said it before tonight [...]
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Recent Posts
Twitter: The Chronicle of Higher Education- chronicle: Missing in Action at the MLA: Today's Teachers of Today's Students http://bit.ly/8lfAHK
- chronicle: RT @GoldieStandard: #innovation Kauffman takes the gloves off. Will this attack (http://tinyurl.com/y8rkfle) on university tech transfe ...
- chronicle: Translation Has Its Moment at MLA "There's still a privileging of everything but the creative act." #mla09 http://bit.ly/7X4MJ6
- chronicle: #highered "21 Things that Will be Obsolete in Educ" is K-12 focused. Suggestions for some more in higher-ed? Send em: @GoldieStandard
- chronicle: New Report: For-Profits Gobble Up More of Online Market Amid Recession http://bit.ly/4FwQ6e
- chronicle: Hacker Breaks Into Community-College Server Containing Personal Info of 51,000 http://bit.ly/7ckKvH
- chronicle: An English professor looks back on his graduate-school years and the professor he just couldn't impress. http://bit.ly/7tKf4X
- chronicle: 'Step Away From the Laptop. You Are Too Close to the Laptop.' http://bit.ly/7IEWZn
- chronicle: Review Forum: Is it time for class-based affirmative action? http://bit.ly/4zKLY8
- chronicle: For those of you who are in academe: What are your goals for 2010?
- Twitter: Harvard Graduate School of Education
- hgse: HGSE Event: "Multiple Intelligences: The First 25 years" with Howard Gardner http://bit.ly/6zT0hA
- hgse: Emphasis on Education: Master's Student Tamam Waritu: When master's student Tamam Waritu dropped out of his Ethiopi... http://bit.ly/7emhdw
- hgse: Let the Games Begin: Q&A w/ Prof. David Perkins about his book, Making Learning Whole http://tinyurl.com/yee6azj
- hgse: RT @Harvard_Ed_Pub: To win the real Race to the Top, your district needs a strategy—not just a strategic plan. http://ow.ly/MO0c
- hgse: Construction 101. Ed. magazine looks at alums who've started their own schools — barriers, roadblocks, and all. http://tinyurl.com/ykaugps
- hgse: Geoffrey Canada, Ed.M.'75, Featured on CBS' 60 Minutes: Geoffrey Canada, Ed.M.'75, is featured on CBS's 60 Minutes ... http://bit.ly/58M2rF
- hgse: The NYTimes' Bob Herbert on the Ed School's new leadership degree. http://bit.ly/8DCjVq
- hgse: From One to Many: Master's Student Nathaniel Dunigan: A one-month trip to Uganda to educate on HIV/AIDS, turned int... http://bit.ly/6I5Hgm
- hgse: Usable Knowledge: Harvard Ed Dean Kathy McCartney on the lasting impact of high-quality early childcare http://bit.ly/578QPQ
- hgse: Colleagues Reflect on Kennedy's Education Legacy at Askwith Forum: Although much of country is familiar with th.. http://bit.ly/1yFK30
- Twitter: Times Higher Education
- timeshighered: Detroit bomber: UCL provost Malcolm Grant argues that intellectual freedom on campus cannot be compromised http://bit.ly/7cZMOz
- timeshighered: Hefce budget to be slashed by £915m over three years: Cut in the unit of resource equates to £190 per student http://bit.ly/4nYoiq
- timeshighered: That's SIR Bob Burgess to you! Full list of HE New Year Honours here: http://bit.ly/8MCAkG
- timeshighered: Don’t allow ‘climate of fear’ to develop on UK campuses http://is.gd/5GPUi
- timeshighered: We have an exclusive on our site tomorrow morning - Malcolm Grant, provost of UCL, speaks out about the media furore over Abdulmutallib
- timeshighered: @iainmacl - we have to admit, you can't get much more wildly optimistic than that!
- timeshighered: RT @iainmacl Scottish independence leads to huge investment in universities, return of full grants and research bonanza from oil wealth
- timeshighered: We're trying to find a cheerful prediction to tweet, but it seems you're all a bit gloomy over HE's prospects for 2010 (with reason!)
- timeshighered: RT @david_colquhoun Prediction. HR will expand (that was too easy)
- timeshighered: Unfortunately our black cloaks and scythes are non-refundable... RT @djtheduchess THE will stop being the harbinger of doom?
- Twitter: E. Gordon Gee, President of The Ohio State University
- presidentgee: Tweet vacation until next week. All I want for Christmas is a Rose Bowl win.
- presidentgee: Kudos to staff at University's Blackwell Inn for their heroic efforts to accommodate guests during campus power loss. A model of teamwork.
- presidentgee: Saddened to learn of the passing of Frank Wobst, retired Huntington chairman and CEO, great friend of mine and Ohio State.
- presidentgee: If everybody in Buckeye Universe asks Santa for a Rose Bowl win…
- presidentgee: Go basketball Bucks! Beat Alabama A&M (women) and Delaware State (men).
- presidentgee: Ohio State physicists Brian Winer and Dongping Zhong honored with rank of Fellow by their Academy. Fist bump, fellows!
- presidentgee: Over the river and through the woods…to celebrate holidays with University trustees.
- presidentgee: Holiday cards arrive at Bricker Hall with envelopes bearing stamps from near and far. Smiles all around.
- presidentgee: Great article in Cols Dispatch today by E. Pyle on new Ohio Union, "Ohio State's giant living room." I plan to make myself at home there.
- presidentgee: Congrats to our own Michael Lairmore, new president of American College of Veterinary Pathologists.
- New York Times: Education
- Strategy | Faculty: The Case of the Vanishing Full-Time ProfessorOnly 27 percent of college instructors are full-time and tenured. Here’s how to find them.
- University Branches in Dubai Are StrugglingAfter the collapse of the emirate’s economy, American schools’ outposts there are having trouble attracting enough students to survive.
- Amid Budget Woes, California Coaches Are Paying a PriceAthletic departments in the University of California and the California State University systems have not been immune to the state’s budget crisis.
- Extra Homework Applying for Education GrantsThe Department of Education, preparing to give hundreds of millions of dollars in grants, estimated how long it should take each state to prepare its proposal: 681 hours.
- With DNA Testing, Students Learn What’s What in Their NeighborhoodTwo students collected 217 samples they encountered daily and found mislabeled food and at least one surprise: hot dogs actually made of beef.
- Half Tuition or Less for a Law School’s Second ClassThe University of California’s law school at Irvine announced that the 80 students chosen for the second entering class will get privately financed scholarships for all three years.
- Teachers Defying Gravity to Gain Students’ InterestEducators took flight, and starred on video, all in the name of science and math.
- New Jersey College Is Beset by AccusationsThe president of Stevens Institute of Technology is accused of plundering the endowment and receiving illegal loans.
- Pittsburgh Mayor Strikes a Deal to Abandon Tuition TaxLocal colleges and universities and some private corporations have agreed to give the city voluntary contributions to help close a budget gap.
- University of Dayton Purchases Former Base of NCRThe complex will house a research institute to focus on stimulating a new generation of small businesses.
- Strategy | Faculty: The Case of the Vanishing Full-Time Professor
