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James Franco’s Rejected UCLA Commencement Speech
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Twitter: The Chronicle of Higher Education- 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?
- chronicle: Give a Humanist a Supercomputer ... http://bit.ly/7N3xbZ
- chronicle: Matching Teaching Style to Learning Style May Not Help Students (premium story) http://bit.ly/7DsNAQ
- chronicle: Blackboard Settles Longstanding Patent Fight With Rival Desire2Learn http://bit.ly/5rzywg
- Twitter: Harvard Graduate School of Education
- 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
- hgse: Prospective Students Visit Campus for Diversity Recruitment Program Event: Last week 195 prospective students f.. http://bit.ly/1mrZhD
- Twitter: Times Higher Education
- timeshighered: We're off until Tuesday now, but stay tuned to the website for some festive updates - and @bisgovuk...no more news please!
- timeshighered: If you would like to make chief ranker Phil smile this Christmas, please follow @THEworldunirank and get him over the magic 200 followers
- timeshighered: RT @Failsworth Key point about cuts is: what will they do to the student-staff ratio? Which is bad enough already http://bit.ly/6TtTMR
- timeshighered: @pollycurtis - good luck with the new job! Good to see the govt sneaked in one last big story before you left...
- timeshighered: If you're looking for a Christmas do to gatecrash, we hear there ain't no party like a Cardiff HR party http://bit.ly/624sCN
- timeshighered: RT @TeessideUni We closed a day early today as a reward for being the @TimesHigherEd's University of the Year. So Merry Christmas Everyone!
- timeshighered: VC of @warwickuni calls cuts "a savage reverse Christmas present." http://bit.ly/4vbRha http://bit.ly/6TtTMR
- timeshighered: RT @iainmacl German students are rioting over their courses being shortened - what about UK students? head for the barricades!?
- timeshighered: Leeds Met, Imperial, KCL, Oxbridge all good guesses but it is, of course, the irrepressible Uni of Buckingham welcoming the govt cuts
- timeshighered: RT @THEworldunirank: UUK chief says cuts "seriously threaten our ability to offer high-quality student experience". And more reactions: ...
- 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
- 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.
- New Jersey College Is Beset by AccusationsThe president of Stevens Institute of Technology is accused of plundering the endowment and receiving illegal loans.
- Teachers Defying Gravity to Gain Students’ InterestEducators took flight, and starred on video, all in the name of science and math.
- 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.
- Beverly Hills Schools to Cut NonresidentsNonresidents used to be a financial boon, but California’s budget crisis is changing the way schools are financed.
- New Programs Aim to Lure Young Into Digital JobsThe country needs more cool nerds — people who can use computing in ways that haven’t even been thought of yet. High schools are starting to do their part.
- To Deal With Obsession, Some Defriend FacebookRecognizing that Facebook was interfering with their lives offline, some students took steps to kick the habit.
- After Son’s Suicide, Mother Again Channels Grief Into ActionFor Esmeralda Williamson-Noble, the suicide of her 20-year-old son resurrected emotions she experienced 14 years ago when another of her sons died of SIDS.
- Lincoln Gordon Dies at 96; Educator and Ambassador to BrazilDr. Gordon was a Harvard professor for years and served in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and as the president of Johns Hopkins University.
- Half Tuition or Less for a Law School’s Second Class
