• 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 Voices” is inspiring others. At KU’s Mason City campus, Iowa’s Governor Terry Branstad and Lt. Governor. Kim Reynolds, outlined an ambitious plan that includes a goal “to ensure a world-class education for Iowa students.” John Skipper of the Globe-Gazette reports.
• Read the inspiring comments of two soon-to-be college graduates from Purdue University North Central in the Post-Tribune. Will Culbertson Westville and Amy Kanyer appreciate their education and are excited about starting their careers!
• With the troubles facing Florida’s university system so prevalent in recent headlines, it’s refreshing to see the comments of Representative Will Weatherford as he urges Floridians to support a new, totally online university. Reporter Kim Wilmath quotes Weatherford as saying about the proposed idea: “I almost feel like it’s limitless. I don’t necessarily want to define it.”
• Writer Philip Chan’s headline in the Sydney Morning Herald says it all: “For these pupils, science is a language of love.” The story covers a program where teens are inspired by a two-week National Youth Science Forum program.
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