Tag: education
member name: John M.
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July 19, 2007 09:45 AM EDT --
So a few months ago I interviewed for a fairly high level job at a university across the country. My friends here in Indiana are, for the most part, all leaving, it seems. And I'll be here . . .
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May 11, 2007 11:27 AM EDT --
I will be 33 this summer; I have been in school for 29 of those 33 years.
3-4-- Pre-school
5-18-- Primary/Secondary School
19-22-- Drew University (BA, Psychobiology and English)
22-23-- No School . . .
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September 27, 2006 05:00 AM EDT --
from cnn.com:
"Her [Spelling's] overarching theme is to make everything about college -- choosing one, affording one, succeeding in one -- easier for families. Parents should be able to shop . . .
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May 09, 2007 09:14 AM EDT --
This will likely turn out to be a stream-of-consciousness thing rather than a coherent statement.
I've basically been in school in some form or another for 30 years. I'm in the process of finishing . . .
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November 01, 2006 04:43 PM EST --
Gosh, I'm really hoping this isn't true. I'm all for gay rights, but it is not the role of the faculty to force people to sign on their support for something that go against their belief . . .
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November 09, 2006 11:56 AM EST --
Are you:
In constant contact with your child?
In constant contact with school administrators?
Making your child's academic decisions?
Feel bad about yourself when your child does not do well? . . .
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February 05, 2007 01:00 PM EST --
In Michigan, a court has found that the state's law banning gay marriage means that no public institutions can offer any of the rights of marriage to non-married (read gay and lesbian) couples. To . . .
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April 25, 2007 08:22 AM EDT --
So it's finals time here at school and I haven't been posing on gather really. I have some good articles in my mind for when I'm done with my exams. I thought in the interim, I'd share . . .
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August 08, 2007 01:28 PM EDT --
Gay Identity Devlopment will be the topic for my PhD dissertation. The follow is a (long) exerpt from my qualifying exams that asked me to sketch out the study. (As is typical for the exams, I wrote . . .
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November 14, 2006 01:12 PM EST --
I wish that this was the issue that gay folks had latched onto rather than gay marriage. Although I support gay marriage, and think it will do wonders for helping gay people, I think this is a more . . .
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December 01, 2006 08:15 AM EST --
I found this article on cnn.com and it seemed very timely. As a grad student, I find myself in the unique position of being both a student and a faculty member depending on the day and time. So I've . . .
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October 06, 2006 08:29 AM EDT --
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This is such a tricky issue. How do we try and find a balance between the rights of groups to be formed based on their values and the . . .
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November 10, 2006 08:23 AM EST --
Wow, this story is really amazing and truly frightening. I'm not against the Greek System at schools, but hazing like this just confuses me. What would make a group of young men think that they needed . . .
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November 17, 2006 02:48 PM EST --
What an interesting project. This is the first program like this that I've heard of. It seems like a move away from a deficit model of thinking about lower income students (i.e. we need to provide . . .
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November 26, 2006 02:00 PM EST --
I saw this one on cnn.com. A group of students at Boston University (the BU College Rebuplicans)has raised money for a private scholarship that is only for white students (Caucasian Achievement . . .
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February 02, 2007 10:54 AM EST --
A friend sent this to me the other day, well worth a quick look if you need a chuckle:
http://www.overheardatcollege.com/
It has those snippets of conversation that you hear on college campuses . . .
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October 31, 2006 09:39 AM EST --
I saw this article on chronicle.com and thought that it brought up some really interesting issues. We hear a lot about how students in poor, urban areas struggle to access higher educaiton, but I . . .
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October 27, 2006 04:32 PM EDT --
I've heard on the news a few times in the past day or two some info about the added income associated with higher educational attainment. Here is a table of that information:
Both Sexes, All . . .
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November 15, 2006 10:25 AM EST --
This issue has come up largely through the work of David Horowitz and Anne D. Neal who assert that students, faculty, and staff with more conservative views are being biased against in the academy. . . .
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October 25, 2006 08:34 AM EDT --
I saw this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. It is an interesting debate. I have problems with the conceptualization on both sides of this argument.
On the pro-side: The . . .
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