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• TMCC offering new entrepreneurship classes in 2010

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  TMCC is announcing new entrepreneurship training courses for the Spring 2010 semester. TMCC’s School of Business & Entrepreneurship (SOBE) provides students with the skills and knowledge to compete and succeed in today’s marketplace. Each courses offers up-to-date, practical business fundamentals. The SOBE ...
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• Rising trend: Grade inflation

  
  The Nevada Sagebrush — Authority: 517
  About 40 percent of undergraduate grades at the University of Nevada, Reno last spring were A’s — a statistic some faculty say illustrates a national grade inflation problem devaluing college degrees. Others suggest that the grade distribution could be attributed to high-achieving students or improved teaching ...
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• Grade inflation cited as a national problem, despite incomplete data

  
  The Nevada Sagebrush — Authority: 517
  Click here to read the entire special report on grades.The University of Nevada, Reno gives a higher proportion of A’s than the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, according to the schools’ institutional analysis data. In fall 2008, 64 percent of UNLV’s undergraduate grades were A’s and B’s, compared to UNR’s ...
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• New VP of human resources named

  
  The Nevada Sagebrush — Authority: 517
  Tim McFarling, the director of faculty human resources, was promoted to the assistant vice president for human resources position. McFarling, who has worked as a University of Nevada, Reno administrator since 2004, had been serving as the interim vice president for human resources for more than a year.“(McFarling) ...
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• Campus Chat: How rigorus is the grading at UNR?

  
  The Nevada Sagebrush — Authority: 517
  Click here to read the entire special report on grades.How rigorous is the grading at UNR?Adam Allen 21, speech communications“I’m very against the  university’s grading system. Everything is based off points, not quality.”Misty Kinser 27, English“I can get C’s on all assignments but still get an A in ...
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• Grade Inflation: Reynolds School of Journalism

  
  The Nevada Sagebrush — Authority: 517
  The Reynolds School of Journalism values learning above grades, Dean Jerry Ceppos said.In a study of grade distributions between colleges for last year, the Reynolds School of Journalism earned roughly 75 percent A’s and B’s for the spring semester of the 2008- 09 school year. The main deviation between the ...
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• Grade Inflation: Division of Health Sciences

  
  The Nevada Sagebrush — Authority: 517
  In the spring 2009 semester, the Division of Health Sciences gave 58 percent of undergraduate A’s, the University of Nevada, Reno’s second-highest percentage.“I’m more concerned about success and retention of undergraduate students in college than I am about the grades,” John McDonald, vice president for the ...
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• Grade Inflation: College of Science

  
  The Nevada Sagebrush — Authority: 517
  The number of non-science majors taking science courses greatly affects the College of Science’s undergraduate grade distribution, professors in the college said. “We have a lot of students in here who take these courses because they have to,” said physics professor Ronald Phaneuf, who has taught at the ...
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• Grade Inflation: College of Liberal Arts

  
  The Nevada Sagebrush — Authority: 517
  Whether students enjoy their classes often impacts their grades, professors in the College of Liberal Arts said. The college offers several lower-division and core classes, which could affect its grade distribution, which is significantly lower than the university’s average. Forty-six percent of undergraduate grades ...
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• Grade Inflation: College of Engineering

  
  The Nevada Sagebrush — Authority: 517
  College of Engineering Dean Emmanuel Maragakis said he wasn’t surprised by the college’s grade distribution, which showed a lower number of A’s given than the university average. Last spring, 39 percent of the grades were A’s and 30 percent were B’s.“Are students more diligent today than they were years ...
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• Grade Inflation: College of Education

  
  The Nevada Sagebrush — Authority: 517
  Almost 70 percent of undergraduate grades distributed within the College of Education throughout the past semester were A’s. Another 21 percent were B’s. Professor Diane Barone credited the high grades to the backgrounds of many professors who teach education courses.” “Most of the professors in the college ...
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• Grade Inflation: College of Business

  
  The Nevada Sagebrush — Authority: 517
  Grades in the College of Business are in line with expectations for professional schools, Associate Dean Kambiz Raffiee said.A’s and B’s accounted for about 73 percent of undergraduate grades awarded in the college for the spring semester of the 2008- 09 school year, a slightly lower percentage than other ...
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• Grade Inflation: College of Agriculture, Biotechnology, and Natural Resources

  
  The Nevada Sagebrush — Authority: 517
  The College of Agriculture, Biotechnology and Natural Resources is rigorous but many students rise to the occasion, Associate Dean Carol Condit said. “Our students work hard and they earn their grades,” Condit said.Last spring, 49 percent of grades given were A’s and 32 percent B’s.Assistant professor of ...
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• Facebook Chat on Empathy or Pidgin, Ubuntu Karmic 9.10

  
  Hyperandy's Blog — Authority: 106
  I have no idea why Ubuntu went from Pidgin to Empathy, I loved Pidgin, but it does what I need, so I am going to give it a go. Most of the plug-ins I needed were already installed; except for one I really like having, Facebook. Neither Empathy or Pidgin offer it without a plug-in. For Pidgin just download the ...
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• Renewables will demand global links

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  Mike Skaggs firmly believes Nevada’s renewable resources will prove to be one of the great historic drivers of the state’s economy, similar to the mines and legalized gambling that have powered the economy in the past. And Skaggs, executive director of the Nevada Commission on Economic Development , just as ...
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• Create a Launcher to a Script in Ubunutu

  
  Hyperandy's Blog — Authority: 106
  I’ve showed how to create a launcher in the past (See: http://blog.hyperandy.com/2009/10/02/adding-a-shortcut-to-open-a-specific-vm-under-virtual-box-on-ubuntu/ ) so I won’t go into the nitty gritty of anything except the command syntax needed for the program to launch correctly. Have you ever tried to create a ...
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• How to Uninstall Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR)

  
  Hot News — Authority: 99
  After upgrading to Ubuntu Karmic Koala (9.10), I try to install Ubuntu Netbook Remix in my wife’s HP MiniNote 1016. However since my wife doesn’t like it (it’s quite heavy in this machine), I decided to uninstall UNR and go back to the default GNOME. There are several packages have to be removed, you can do ...
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• A Look At Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10 !

  
  Netbook — Authority: 149
  This is the little demeanour during Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10 ! Works good upon my Asus EEE 900 ! Sound recording functions right away ^_- Enjoy !
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• What is the difference between Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10 and Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop (Standard) Edition?

  
  Gadgetmix news — Authority: 599
  Ubuntu 9.10 was released on Oct 27, 2009 and was greeted very nicely the Linux fans all around the globe. Just like Ubuntu introduced NBR (Netbook Remix) edition with the 9.04 version, a special NBR... Read more by clicking on the link above..
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• Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10 Install Screencast Tutorial Review

  
  Linux/Unix News - motd.ambians.com — Authority: 155
  This editorial style review screencast tutorial podcast video is about Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR) is a version of Ubuntu that has been optimized to enable it to work better on netbooks or devices with small screens. I show you how to install it step by step and then run through its features.
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