Higher Ed

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• Growth Trends in UC Administration (Cont)

  
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  This MSP group grew faster not just than ladder rank faculty, but faster than most other categories.  In 1994, systemwide the ratio of researchers to this group used to be 2 to 1 now it is 3 to 2. The figures are 10 to 1 vs. 5 to 1 if we take the entire academic staff and 34 to 1 vs 16 to 1 if we take all FTEs. It is ...
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• Google And Microsoft Battle For Future Generation

  
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  With the recession taking a bite out of university endowments and public school budgets alike, the competition between Google and Microsoft to convert the nations colleges, universities and schools to the companies free e-mail and other IT services that run on the Internet "cloud" — outsourcing that can save a large ...
  18 hours ago

• Bond Rating Still Worse Than It Was

  
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  Claremont McKennas downgraded bond rating mentioned in Inside Higher Education . Have a look, wont you to see how much more costly all of Ganns new spending will be.
  19 hours ago

• Hooray!

  
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  John Paul the Great Catholic University is pleased to announce its first graduating class this December! JP Catholic is the newest Catholic University in Southern California, and the first authentically Catholic school to focus entirely on the intersection of entrepreneurship and new media. You can find reactions ...
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• Baker & Taylor Acquires Blackwell North America

  
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  Press Release Baker & Taylor Acquires Blackwell North America and James Bennett – Blackwell U.K. Acquires B&T’s Lindsay and Croft in the U.K. As Part of Deal. Customers to Benefit from More than 300 Years of Bookselling Excellence – CHARLOTTE, N.C. – December 7, 2009 – Baker & Taylor Inc. ...
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• Too much wisdom literature.

  
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  A few years ago, my friend sent me a copy of Baltasar Gracián ’s The Art of Worldly Wisdom . It is, by the way, excellent reading. It calls to mind Marcus Aurelius and his Meditations , and I mean that in a very good way.  I was reading it a bit last night, and of course, I was struck by just how damned ...
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• Virginia in a Hurry, 12-08-09

  
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  Warner, Other Freshmen to Offer Health Care Amendments Center for Education Reform Gives Virginia Charter School Law Failing Grade Kaine Announces Enterprise Zones Salahi Subpoenas to Be Considered Wednesday Ten House Races Top $1 Million Mark Government Jobs Top Workplace Injuries in Virginia Bulova ...
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• The Ideal Teacher

  
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  Bob Blaisdell, professor of English at City University of New York’s Kingsborough Community College, has an article up at Inside Higher Ed in which he explains in hilarious detail what being an Ideal Teacher involves. Apparently one must possess several gorgeously wonderful traits, one must be capable of ...
  3 days ago

• The New Normal For Higher Education

  
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  "The most successful institutions will not be those that ride out the economic downturn by returning to the status quo," said Madeleine dAmbrosio, vice president and executive director of the TIAA-CREF Institute, in opening this years TIAA-CREF Institute conference, "Smart Leadership in Difficult Times." More than 150 ...
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• What not to say in a recommendation letter ...

  
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  Omar Lizardo digs up evidence from social science literature to support his advice that we should avoid "grindstone words" (hardworking, for example!) So for the love of everything that is holy ...don’t pepper (I don’t and I have been able to fill up up three or more single-spaced pages) your recommendation ...
  4 days ago

• Links ...

  
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  Tara Brabazon in Times Higher Education : Universities use of YouTube . Discusses many models of use, with caveats such as this one: Watching academics lecture is as exciting as changing the time on a microwave oven. The idea that underprepared PowerPoint lectures are uploaded so that even more people can feel ...
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• Virginia in a Hurry, 12-5-09

  
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  Wolf Says Justice Dept. Hiding Truth in Dropped Voter Intimidation Prosecution Justice Slaps Salahis on the Wrist Norment Wants Salahi Off Tourism Board Salahi and Her Majesty Kaine Says Tea Party Movement is Devouring GOP Kaine Plans to Extend Health Benefits to Same Sex Partners Kaine Backs Barfoot ...
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• Science, Bureaucracy, Government

  
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  In an op-ed in the The Hindu , Narlikar, one of the finest popular science writers in India, describes recent experiments by Indian scientists from TIFR, CCMB, NCCS and ISRO, with very interesting the (sci-fi like) implications in astrobiology. Astrobiology not the only topic that animates Narlikars article, ...
  6 days ago

• What Is A “No-Frills” College Education? The Debate Goes On

  
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  An opinion piece in yesterday’s Inside Higher Ed , by Lee Burdette Williams and Elizabeth A. Beaulieu, does an outstanding job of explaining that calls for a “no-frills education” by the president of Southern New Hampshire University and the Pennsylvania State Board of Education–among others–do not ...
  6 days ago

• Pen is mightier?

  
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• An API Culture

  
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  In software, an API is a way to get data into or out of a system. It stands for “Applicant Programming Interface” and basically allows outsiders to access or manipulate the information in the software. The Twitter API lets you access tweets, search users, post tweets, and so on. The API enables apps like ...
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• Latest Issue Of University Business Now Available

  
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  The November/December 2009 issue of University Business in now available online. This issue contains articles on smart buildings, preventing fires on campus, going beyond ADA, how to use YouTube with success, the no-frills university and more. Find it at: http://www.universitybusiness.com/toc/default.aspx
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• Court Deals Blow to Columbias $6.3 Billion Harlem Land Grab (Updated)

  
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  A State Court of Appeals decided this afternoon that New York State was wrong to grant Columbia University eminent domain rights that enabled it to seize land from property owners whose b...
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• College Students to Taxpayers: “Rent Now, Oppressors!”

  
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  Inside Higher Ed reports today on growing college student acitivism. And what are the young scholars suddenly so active about? Not unjust wars, racism, or anything else so high-minded. No, today the “ no justice, no peace !” chants are all about the injustice of students being asked to pay for more of their ...
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• Higher Ed TV: Reading Season, a Glee-ish video from a UDel Admissions Counselor

  
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  Have you watched “Reading Season, The Musical” yet? This YouTube video was brought to my attention yesterday over Twitter via a quick post from TargetX Jeff Kallay . As you’ve probably noticed, I always try to keep an eye on online videos produced in higher ed. So, I watched it and immediately felt ...
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