Tag: higher education
member name: John M.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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November 14, 2006 12:52 PM EST --
Interesting article from insidehighered.com about students chalking the campus (writing on the sidewalks) with gay-positive and heteronormative challenges for National Coming Out Day on Swarthmore's . . .
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November 14, 2006 01:27 PM EST --
Ok, that's not exactly the argument that's being made, but this is an example of a case of a minority student charging that the use of race in admissions is hurting their chances for getting into . . .
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October 05, 2006 11:48 AM EDT --
I came across this in the Chronicle of Higher Education:
Federal Government Is Urged to Direct More Resources to Need-Based Aid
By MARTIN VAN DER WERF
A former U.S. deputy secretary of education . . .
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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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November 02, 2006 11:37 AM EST --
Wow, I read this on chronicle.com this morning. The article is very long; I'll post the beginning of it below and try to summarize the rest.
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by Peter . . .
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October 24, 2006 09:38 AM EDT --
<h3>By BURTON BOLLAG</h3>
For many parents and legislators, the bottom line of a college education is what a student learns. Colleges struggle to find the best way to assess student learning . . .
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February 12, 2007 02:35 AM EST --
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently reviewed an interesting study that looked at black students at elite universities and found that 28% of them were, or were the children of, immigrants (mostly represented . . .
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October 24, 2006 09:19 AM EDT --
So the pope has some thoughts on how universities should engage with research. Curious that he says we need to resist oversimplifying ideas yet resorts to calling scientists Icaruses. I think . . .
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October 24, 2006 09:26 AM EDT --
A Question of Tone
By ANNIE SHUPPY
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A student election this week at the University of Colorado at Boulder could tip the balance in a battle between bluntness and diplomacy. . . .
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November 08, 2006 10:57 AM EST --
In popular student development theory books, Nevitt Sanford is known for the maxim "challenge and support." This idea states that a college, therapist, parent, etc should provide both challenge . . .
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