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• Funny One Liners & Quotes

  
  Fun and Information — Authority: 126
  1.. My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God and I didn’t. 2.. I don’t suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it. 3.. Some people are alive only because it’s illegal to kill them. 4.. I used to have a handle on life, but it broke. 5.. Don’t take life too seriously; ...
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• Plutarch on Mark Antony

  
  Quiddity — Authority: 467
  …he left Italy and travelled into Greece, where he spent his time in military exercises and in the study of eloquence. He took most to what was called the Asiatic taste in speaking, which was then at its height, and was, in many ways, suitable to his ostentatious, vaunting temper, full of empty flourishes and ...
  4 days ago

• Eight Challenges for Liberal Arts Colleges

  
  Julio de Paula's blog — Authority: 92
  I can enumerate eight challenges that liberal arts colleges must face in the near future: 1. Changing demographics: (a) The number of high school graduates will level off in the next 20 years, so competition for students will be fierce. (b) College students will be more diverse ethnically and ...
  6 days ago

• Knowledge in the Gettysburg Curriculum

  
  Creative Destruction — Authority: 471
  Look at page 28 of the Gettysburg College Course Catalogue 2009-10 . There under the heading "Academic Purposes of Gettysburg College" is an eloquent statement that must have been approved by the faculty many years ago (before I arrived at least) concerning the goals of a Gettysburg College education. We read: In ...
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• Texas State regents approve academic center

  
  Newstreamz San Marcos — Authority: 152
  Texas State University System (TSUS) regents approved the design of a $47.7 million undergraduate academic center Friday, moving ahead with the 130,000-square-foot facility at the universitys south gateway.
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• Lets Hear It For Liberal Arts Education

  
  The Kept-Up Academic Librarian — Authority: 481
  The cosmopolitanism of curricula at America best liberal arts colleges is in tune with the wonderful diversity of student life. The great advantage of our cosmopolitan liberal arts education is that it allows students to explore international, virtual networks of knowledge while learning the virtues (the pleasures and ...
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• New center to promote foreign language study

  
  News from The University of Texas at Austin — Authority: 544
  A new, first-of-its-kind language center will help develop standards and benchmarks for teaching foreign languages at The University of Texas at Austin and serve as a resource for faculty and departments.The Texas Language Center (TLC) opened Sept. 1. University Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor Thomas L. ...
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• Undergraduate earns Marshall Scholarship

  
  News from The University of Texas at Austin — Authority: 544
  Grace Eckhoff, an undergraduate at The University of Texas at Austin, has been named a Marshall Scholar, one of 40 scholars from across the nation who earned the scholarship to study abroad in the United Kingdom.Eckhoff is a Plan II Honors student in the College of Liberal Arts and an Honors biology major in the [...]
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• University student earns Marshall Scholarship

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 167
  Grace Eckhoff, an undergraduate at The University of Texas at Austin, has been named a Marshall Scholar, one of 40 scholars from across the nation who earned the scholarship to study abroad in the United Kingdom. Eckhoff is a Plan II Honors student in the College of Liberal Arts and an Honors biology major in the [...]
  1 week ago

• Banking Takes on a Whole New Meaning When It Comes to Five-Year-Olds

  
  Health Choices — Authority: 150
  Chiropractor in Santa Barbara On occasion, it can feel exhausting attempting to keep up with a five-year-old. If you’ve been around an active child of this age, or if you have one of your own, you may have found yourself hoping that the kid would just sit still for a minute or two. But, new research is affirming ...
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• Will Foreign Students Save Liberal Arts in American Universities?

  
  Schools Matter — Authority: 138
  As the corporate education reformers now have the American university system clearly in their sites , the standardista critique of American higher ed escalates at the same rate as increasing demands for more scientists and technicians, hybrid courses and virtual learning. Gotta love that term. Meanwhile, the New ...
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• Americans say nation is on wrong track, new poll shows

  
  News from The University of Texas at Austin — Authority: 544
  Fifty-one percent of people believe the country is on the wrong track, according to a poll conducted by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin.The survey of 2,100 individuals from around the country was released Monday in conjunction with a daylong conference on money and politics sponsored by the Center for ...
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• Hip hop theater artist explores lifes meaning

  
  News from The University of Texas at Austin — Authority: 544
  Event: The John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin presents "Streeetch Marks," a hip-hop theater performance by Greek-American theatrical artist Angela Kariotis.When: Thursday, Nov. 19 and Friday, Nov. 20, 8 p.m.Where: F. Loren Winship Drama Building, room ...
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• Sleep loss negatively affects split-second decisions

  
  News from The University of Texas at Austin — Authority: 544
  Sleep deprivation adversely affects automatic, accurate responses and can lead to potentially devastating errors, a finding of particular concern among firefighters, police officers, soldiers and others who work in a sleep-deprived state, University of Texas at Austin researchers say.Psychology professors Todd Maddox ...
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• Truth, Tradition, and Trajedy

  
  Quiddity — Authority: 467
  In general, three approaches have dominated education from the beginning of time and I’m not sure there can be any more that are not combinations, parts, or permutations of these three. The sophist does not believe in a knowable universe, so he focuses on adapting to change. The modern version of this approach is ...
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• Exercise for Five-Year-Olds is a Health Advantage You Can Bank On

  
  Health Resources — Authority: 148
  Chiropractor in Santa Barbara From time to time, it can seem draining attempting to keep up with a five-year-old. If you have an active child of this age, or if you’ve ever been around one for any length of time, you may have found yourself hoping that the kid would just stop moving for a little while. However, ...
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• Talk examines U.S.-Venezuela relations

  
  News from The University of Texas at Austin — Authority: 544
  Event: Bernardo Alvarez Herrera, ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the United States, will discuss "U.S.-Venezuela Relations and a New Era for the Americas." The event is co-sponsored by the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) and the Department of Government at The ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Five Colleges of DeVry University | Online & Onsite Bachelor’s Degree Programs

  
  Online Computer Science Degree 360 — Authority: 141
  The five colleges of DeVry University; all focused on turning bachelor’s degrees into careers, all providing the education and experience that employers seek in today’s fastest growing industries. Choose a degree program within five distinguished colleges—Business & Management, Engineering & Information ...
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• Quote, Representation

  
  Higher Ed/ — Authority: 124
  Reviews of an institutions general education (or liberal arts requirements) might be characterized as nasty, brutish, and interminable, to paraphrase Hobbes. You can get a taste of it in " Progress, But No Votes , For Review " in the Harvard Crimson, about that institutions journey to re-enlightenment. And then ...
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• Center to examine "Money and Politics" at Fall Forum

  
  News from The University of Texas at Austin — Authority: 544
  The Center for Politics and Governance (CPG) at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs will examine the implications of money and politics in the 2009 Fall Forum, a one-day conference on Nov. 16 at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center, that will include members of the media, business and ...
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