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Original Technorati articles tagged “higher education”

• in Lifestyle
  Canadian Education and the Rise of Online Learning
  Online learning as a disruptive innovation
  by reyrosales / on Sep 5, 2012
• in Business
  Secretary Duncan Urges Families to Shop for Colleges
  Secretary Duncan gives advice to American families on higher education
  by moneyforcollege333 / on Jun 15, 2012
• in Business
  President Obama's New Education Goal
  Obama will push the nation to reach a major education goal by 2020.
  by moneyforcollege333 / on Jun 6, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “higher education”

 

• A teachers graduation wish: remember the value of face-to-face interaction | Kristina Chew

  
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  In our increasingly high-tech world, I hope my students never forget to look beyond their many screens I teach classics at a small, Jesuit university on a well-trafficked boulevard in Jersey City, across from lower Manhattan. With another school year ending, Im feeling wistful to be saying goodbye to my graduating ...
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• The Results Are In

  
  Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher — Authority: 502
  Last Monday I took the last test in my Statistical Analysis course.  As I sent it in I anticipated either an epic failure or an epic success.  While I guess I cant really complain about an 88% on it, it was my lowest test grade (out of 6) in that class.  Either way, success or failure, it certainly wasnt ...
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• Wall Street Journal: “This Is Water” Commencement Speech Goes Viral on the Net

  
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  The Wall Street Journal has highlighted this commencement speech , and I thought it so good, I had to share it here with my UBC Management students. It is at least as good as Steve Jobs 2005 Stanford commencement address, and it was also given in the same year, 2005. Ironically, this commencement speech is by a ...
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• With Approves Increases, Tuition At North Dakota’s Largest Universities Up 115% Since 2002

  
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  Earlier this week the North Dakota State Board of Higher Education went along with a plan for tuition increases promoted by the university presidents and opposed by Chancellor Hamid Shirvani. These are just approved maximums, which technically means that the actual tuition increases might be lower, given the ...
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• Higher Education Bubble Watch

  
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  I read about the Enstitute: Learning By Doing  in Forbes . This may not replace MIT, just yet, but I love seeing these upstart experiments to offer something different from the traditional seminar model of education. I think this kind of stuff should start around 5th or 6th grade, maybe sooner. Filed under: ...
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• Why Can’t Students Borrow at the Same Rates as Banks?

  
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  Elizabeth Warren has proposed common sense legislation: allow students, who are typically crippled by loan debt, to borrow at the same rates we offer to big banks.
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• What Math Do College Students Need?

  
  Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher — Authority: 502
  Im not one who pushes for everyone to take differential equations, but just as a college graduate should be literate, he or she should also be numerate : Community college students are needlessly assigned to remedial math classes to learn lessons they won’t use during their studies, according to new research from ...
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• Professor Gause Shakes His Tail Feather

  
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  Every day news about the dicey retirement years baby boomers are looking at becomes grimmer and grimmer, to the point where those Walmart greeters’ jobs and MacDonald’s drive-thru cashier positions seem like attractive options for a second career. Not so for four-time “ Professor of the Year ” Gerald E. ...
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• NDGOP: Voters Should Be Proud We Can Spend Like Democrats

  
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  Fresh on the heels of House Majority Leader Al Carlson and Senate Majority Leader Rich Wardner’s column in The Grand Forks Herald yesterday, equating the compassion of the NDGOP with money spent by the Legislative Assembly they control, comes a report issued by the Governor’s Office and Legislative leadership ...
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• Which Coach is Highest Paid State Employee – Open Item

  
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  Today’s open item comes to us compliments of St. Senator Jim Banks’ Twitter feed . He linked to an infographic put together by Deadspin which shows state by state which sport’s coach is the highest paid state employee . Over 80% of the states in the country have a coach as their highest paid employee! On ...
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• Surviving the reading marathon

  
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  Recently @indecisionpersonified asked me a question: “… I have just moved continents and been accepted into a PhD program and have six free months before I start. I was wondering whether you had any advice to give people like me on how best to use the time before starting a PhD in order to be prepared for a ...
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• The nativist nightmare? We’re going to school!

  
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  More of the high school graduates from last year who are Latino enrolled in college than did white graduates. I’m sure that statement makes some shudder, because it goes a long way toward stomping all over the nativist rhetoric they so often spew about people who just don’t fit into this society – and ...
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• The graduation gap

  
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  So your students walk off the stage with a high school diploma. Tasseled caps soar in the breeze, held aloft with aspirations for the future. But just because they graduate, doesn’t necessarily mean they’re ready to fly. Recently, the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE) released the results of a ...
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• Cardinal Sean O’Malley Will Boycott Boston College Commencement

  
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  The Jesuit school decided it was a good idea to find a politician whose major contribution so far to mankind is trying to legalize abortion in Ireland. Great move. Cardinal Sean O’Malley Will Boycott Boston College Commencement Archdiocese of Boston’s Cardinal Sean O’Malley said today that he plans to ...
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• Adrian Cook Is Connected To The South Africa Business Network

  
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  CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA,   May 10, 2012 / South Africa Business Network / — An extraordinary entrepreneur in the human resources and education industry with over three decades of diverse professional experience in the field of business human resources, training and lecturing; Adrian Cook has consistently ...
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• Rick Perry Goes To The Head Of The Class To Help Set Right-Wing Anti-Intellectual Higher Education Policy

  
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  Its been a very sad thing for any state that winds up with a GOP/Tea Party-controled legislature, especially when they also have the governors mansion. Most of them are the states with the worst economic results, worst education results, worst health results and worst environmental results. I dont want to get into a ...
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• Librotraficantes Declare Victory; Remain Vigilant

  
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  Authors Tony Diaz and Dagoberto Gilb. (Photo by Liana Lopez) I want to congratulate my sisters and brothers in the cause, Librotraficante led by author Tony Diaz , on their victory against the anti-Ethnic Studies bills filed by Patrick and Capriliogne. Here’s a press release of a victory event held earlier ...
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• Seattle Times: UW student group suggests tuition increase to fund faculty raises

  
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  Seattle Times higher education reporter Katherine Long reports in today’s newspaper: If the Legislature won’t give more money to higher education, University of Washington students are calling on the school to raise tuition by 3 percent, then put all of that money into faculty salaries. Read more .
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• Weekly Wrap Up: “We Move Forward”

  
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  Watch the West Wing Week here . Launching the Jobs & Opportunity Tour: On Thursday, the President was in Austin to launch his Middle Class Jobs & Opportunity Tour . Austin is leading the nation in manufacturing and tech job growth and is a benchmark for “a thriving, rising middle class and a dynamic, ...
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• ACRL 2013 Conference Notes: On Creating a Culture of Assessment

  
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  ACRL Panel Session Topic: Creating a Culture of Assessment: Determinants of Success Date: Friday, April 12, 2013, 8:30am Since I did the preconference on assessment earlier, I figured this would be a nice addition to my learning experience. Plus, the preconference presenters did recommend it. On defining a ...
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