• If you aren’t sure what Digital Learning Day is, start with the information on the organization’s website. There are quite a few events planned for today and resources available for educators and other interested parties. • Next, see the information and links provided by Grad Hacker at Insider Higher Ed. • Another excellent resources [...]
• Associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Georgia, Mark Ebell, will be joining the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force, a group that will make recommendations to Americans on how to prevent diseases. According to Marianna Heredia of Red and Black, the group will not profit by any of the preventative tests or products [...]
• Mississippi State University graduate, Kyle Kirkland’s dissertation on the frequency of chronic migraines among AIDS patients is receiving a lot of attention in the medical community. “Headache among Patients with HIV Disease: Prevalence, Characteristics, and Associations” will be pubished in the March edition of Headache, a well-respected medical journal. • Have you ever thought [...]
• See Part One of Economy Watch’s infographic that responds to this question. Then review Part Two. • Linda Chavez offers further insights in the Courier Post • Professor Emeritus Neil Snyder of the University of Virginia replies to Chavez in the American Thinker. • Writer Merci Hamilton places her response to this question within [...]
• Dr. Justin Marquis writes a nice overview of the State of the Union address as it applies to education and points out one “glaring omission” in “Education and the 2012 State of the Union.” • Anna Kuchment of Scientific American has posted an overview of the reactions by science education experts. This is an [...]
• Kaplan University and the ChildCare Education Institute have announced a new articulation agreement that will allow and encourage CCEI’s students to transfer the credits earned toward various childcare certificates into a related Kaplan degree program. • Harrison College has announced a first step in its ambitious goal to have international partnerships on five continents. [...]
• The University of Tennessee’s Writing Program including the Writing Center established in 1936 has received a Certificate of Excellence from the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). • Professor Ming-Hsuan Yang, an engineering professor at the University of California, has been awarded the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award to [...]
• Charlie Hailey of the University of Florida begins sharing his Fulbright experiences in the Republic of Macedonia via Inside Higher Ed today. • Dr. Charles Teo shares insights into academic life both in the United States and in his native country of Australia. • Faculty of Vietnamese descent are returning to Vietnam in an [...]
• Michelle Rafter of BlogHer shares a link to Kaplan University’s “Visionary Voices” series in which Chair and CEO of TIBCO Software Vivek Ranadivé explains how future success depends on being educated and able to be a creative, independent thinker. The additional videos on KU’s site are worth reviewing, too. • Apparently Kaplan University’s “Visionary [...]
• Professor Depak Basu of Nagasaki University defends education in the English language, The Japan Times Online. His points should sound very familiar to readers in the United States and elsewhere. • Led by the Florida Alliance for Student Action (FASA), university students in the state are mobilizing to fight rising tuition rates and in [...]
