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• A Makeover For The GRE

  
  The Kept-Up Academic Librarian — Authority: 434
  After two false starts, the Graduate Record Exam, the graduate school entrance test, will be revamped and slightly lengthened in 2011 and graded on a new scale of 130 to 170. Although the exam will still include sections on verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning and analytical writing, each section is being revised. ...
  1 day ago

• Students Occupy UC President’s Office

  
  How The University Works — Authority: 453
  Several hundred students gathered at the Oakland courthouse Monday to protest the filing of felony burglary charges against protesters last week, then began an impromptu march over to the University of California’s Office of the President (UCOP), the building from which Mark Yudof directs the entire UC system. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Berkeley Standoff via Microblog; Trade Press Whupped By Mass Media

  
  How The University Works — Authority: 453
  Follow the Berkeley standoff via microblog. Also see this video of a unionized campus worker addressing several hundred UCSC students during the third day of the current occupation. Best updates on California occupations here ; best strike and breaking media from UPTE ; and all other UC news at Newfield et ...
  2 weeks ago

• Google Gets Into The Dissertation Business

  
  The Kept-Up Academic Librarian — Authority: 434
  Beginning last week, students who used to lug three or four copies of their capstone university work to Stanfords registrars office could file their dissertations by simply uploading them from their computer. Stanford has been using ProQuests Dissertation publishing system.   But using the company costs money, which ...
  2 weeks ago

• California is Burning

  
  How The University Works — Authority: 453
  Update: you’ve got to watch this video . Yesterday the UC Regents walked into a room packed with gasoline and nonchalantly lit their cigars–handing down tuition increases that will hike 2010 rates 44% over 2008, turning higher ed into a gated community for the offspring of California’s “Real ...
  2 weeks ago

• We are Professionals, Arent We?

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 583
  I dont always agree with Will Thalheimer, but I think he mostly nails it with this list demonstrating the ways educators do not act as professionals: - Our graduate schools prepare technicians, not thoughtful scientist-practitioners - We dont measure the outcome of our work in ways that enable us to build effective ...
  3 weeks ago

• Pay to Work? GEO Says No!

  
  How The University Works — Authority: 453
  Does your idea of public higher education include values like fairness and diversity? Yeah, me too. Ditto for the several hundred grad students drumming in the rain in Illinois today, after their union struck to defend tuition waivers.Get updates and join their 2,500 fans on the GEO Facebook page . Charging tuition ...
  3 weeks ago

• Learning from London?

  
  GlobalHigherEd — Authority: 107
  I sometimes wonder if it is worth drawing lines between two seemingly disparate processes that are at work at different scales, and in different countries, but why not – I’m jetlagged. First, the US Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) released a new report ( Findings from the 2009 CGS International Graduate ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Audacity of Audacity

  
  How The University Works — Authority: 453
  The 2000 students sitting in at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts ignited occupations at a handful of neighboring buildings and campuses, then leapt across Austria and into Germany (where already last summer a quarter million students, faculty, teachers, and parents struck to fight various sleazy American-model* ...
  4 weeks ago

• Reading, Writing & Education : How Can You Spend a Pell Grant?

  
  Prepare For College — Authority: 158
  Pell Grant spending is not monitored, so it can be used in any way a student sees fit. However, it is often best to use it for educational expenses. Keep Pell Grant money in an emergency account with advice from awriting instructor and former classroom teacher in this free video on scholarships and grants. Expert: ...
  5 weeks ago

• Conversion to Tenure

  
  How The University Works — Authority: 453
  This is the text of an email blast sent out by AAUP to 370,000 faculty, announcing the release of a draft report on conversion to tenure , co-authored by me, and featuring several examples of different ways that different institutions have moved to stabilize their faculty. We’ve already received over 150 ...
  5 weeks ago

• Will More Early-Childhood Education Funding Improve Young People’s Fitness for Military?

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 438
  Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Not surprising because he’s a liberal, Arne Duncan believes throwing more money at early-childhood education programs will ensure that a more-qualified pool of applicants will be available for future military service. On Thursday, according to a media advisory , the former head ...
  5 weeks ago

• Study in HK : Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme 2010/11

  
  Fili's World | A different look at Asia, China & Taiwan — Authority: 117
  Hong Kong’s getting serious about globalization and attracting global academic talent this year with a new scheme for PhD fellowship that is quite generous. The Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) announced last year that the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme will be offered to student applying for the 2010/11 ...
  5 weeks ago

• Battle Over Law Students Innocence Project

  
  The Kept-Up Academic Librarian — Authority: 434
  As the Medill Innocence Project is raising concerns about another case, that of a man convicted in a murder 31 years ago, a hearing has been scheduled next month in Cook County Circuit Court on an unusual request: Local prosecutors have subpoenaed the grades, grading criteria, class syllabus, expense reports and ...
  5 weeks ago

• Reading, Writing & Education : How Can You Spend a Pell Grant?

  
  Prepare For College — Authority: 158
  Pell Grant spending is not monitored, so it can be used in any way a student sees fit. However, it is often best to use it for educational expenses. Keep Pell Grant money in an emergency account with advice from awriting instructor and former classroom teacher in this free video on scholarships and grants. Expert: ...
  6 weeks ago

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