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Colleges and Universities RSS FeedsSpring concerts on campus - It's a musical time of year at Connecticut College, with an array of events presented by the Department of Music. Many are free - prices are listed for events requiring tickets - and all are open to the public. ...Feed Source: www.conncoll.edu Exhibition showcases work by senior art majors - The Connecticut College Department of Art is pleased to present the 2012 Senior Thesis Art Exhibition, on display May 4-20 in the Cummings Arts Center. ... Arboretum to host Mother's Day Plant Sale - The Connecticut College Arboretum will host a Mother's Day Plant Sale on campus on Friday, May 11, from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. ... Men's Lacrosse to host Colby Saturday for NESCAC Championship Quarterfinal - Connecticut College men's lacrosse program will host Colby College this Saturday, April 28, at 1 p.m. for a New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Championship Quarterfinal match on the Artificial Turf at Silfen Field. Admission and parking for the event are free of charge. ... Music in May - May is a musical month at Connecticut College, with an array of events presented by the Department of Music. Many are free -prices are listed for events requiring tickets - and all are open to the public. ... Celebrate National Astronomy Day by star gazing at Connecticut College - Connecticut College will celebrate National Astronomy Day by providing the public with binocular and telescopic views of the night sky on Saturday, April28, from 7:30 to 10 p.m. at the Olin Observatory in Olin Science Center. ... Catch 'Hay Fever' at Connecticut College April 26-29 - The Department of Theater is pleased to present Noël Coward's "Hay Fever," with performances running Thursday, April 26, through Sunday, April 29, in Tansill Theater. ... Portrait of former College president to be unveiled - The community is cordially invited to join Connecticut College President Leo I. Higdon Jr. on Wednesday, April 25, for a reception honoring President Emeritus Norman Fainstein and the unveiling of Fainstein's official presidential portrait. The reception begins at 4 p.m., with the unveiling scheduled for approximately 4:15 p.m. in the Ernst Common Room, Blaustein Humanities Center. ... College to observe Holocaust Remembrance Day - The Connecticut College Office of Religious and Spiritual Life, Hillel and the Jewish Federation of Eastern Connecticut invite the community to commemorate Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, on Thursday, April 19, at 4:30 p.m. ... Lecturer to discuss the wisdom of world's indigenous cultures - Cultural anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis will deliver a talk titled "The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in a Modern World" on Tuesday, April 17, at 4:30 p.m. in Evans Hall of Cummings Arts Center. ... Learning a New Language on Location - A number of language immersion programs are offered in places like the Tuscan hills and Costa Rica, in classes specifically for older people or for a mix of age groups.
... Senate Republicans Block Bill to Avert Rise in Student Loan Rate - Republicans oppose the Democrats? approach to paying for the program, which reduces some student loan interest rates.
... Law School Plans to Offer Web Courses for Master?s - The Washington University School of Law will offer a master?s degree in United States law in partnership with 2tor, an education technology company.
... Queens Students Get Water Lessons by Designing Playground - A nonprofit group is shepherding five eco-playgrounds into schools in Queens and Brooklyn to teach children about water and urban infrastructure.
... Scandal Distracts Klein From His Education Goals at News Corp. - Six months after joining News Corporation to lead a push into the education market, Joel I. Klein became Rupert Murdoch?s legal compass in the phone-hacking scandal.
... Retired Military Officers Teaching at Ivy League Schools - Campuses that once turned a cold shoulder to the military are now inviting former top officers, like Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, to come and teach.
... On Education: New Procedure for Teaching License Draws Protest - Student teachers at the University of Massachusetts are protesting a new national licensure procedure being developed by the education company Pearson and Stanford University.
... Jobs Few, College Graduates Flock to Unpaid Internships - In a weak job market, many college graduates are taking unpaid internships that fail to deliver on their promises of experience by offering little more than menial work.
... California State Students Plan to Fast in Protest Over Cuts - The fasting protest was the latest display of anger at the 23 California State University campuses, where the system has lost roughly $970 million in state financing since 2008.
... Career Couch: Volunteering Offers a Way to Explore Career Fields - Public service work can be a gateway to careers and gives new graduates time to consider options and learn about themselves.
... Sports Briefing | Pro Basketball: Shaquille O?Neal Earns His Doctorate in Education - The former N.B.A. star Shaquille O?Neal received his doctoral degree in education from Barry University during commencement ceremonies in Miami Shores, Fla.
... Shortcuts: Career or Deep Learning? Pondering the Purpose of College - In the early 1980s, receiving a bachelor of arts degree in just about any subject ?opened up lots of jobs,? experts say. Oh, how times have changed.
... U.S. to Revise Foreign Student Job Program - The government will now prohibit the students from doing most warehouse, construction, manufacturing and food-processing work.
... Bloomberg Restores 2,500 Teaching Jobs in Latest Budget Proposal - Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said Thursday that 2,500 teaching jobs would be restored, while avoiding tax increases, but he could still cut funding for child care and after-school programs.
... Harvard and M.I.T. Offer Free Online Courses - The universities announced a new nonprofit partnership, known as edX, that will offer vast new learning opportunities for students around the world.
... Criminal Charges for 13 in Florida A&M Hazing Death - A band member, Robert Champion, died after being beaten and suffocated by fellow students during a hazing ritual in November.
... National Briefing | West: California State University Faculty Agrees to Strike - Faculty members in the California State University system said Wednesday that they had approved plans for a two-day rolling strike at campuses all over the state.
... Hamtramck High Holds All-Girl Prom - A dream to take part in an American rite of passage came true for girls whose faith forbids them to date or dance with boys.
... Princeton Review Accused of Fraud in Tutoring Program - The company is accused of fraudulently claiming millions of dollars in reimbursement for tutoring services that the government said it never delivered to underprivileged students.
... Social Media Rules Limit Student-Teacher Contact - The guidelines reflect concerns about the misuse of sites like Facebook and Twitter and represent the latest official response to allegations of teachers behaving inappropriately with students.
... Simons Foundation Chooses U.C. Berkeley for Computing Center - The Simons Foundation plans to announce on Tuesday that the University of California, Berkeley, will be the home of a new center that combines computing theory with fields like biology or economics.
... Parents Owe Full Tuition After Withdrawing Children From Private Schools - Many parents have found that, after withdrawing their children from private schools in New York City, they are still expected to pay the full tuition for the coming school year.
... Obama Signs Order to Protect Veterans From College Recruiters - The executive order is designed to protect against deceptive recruiting practices, especially by for-profit institutions seeking veterans? military benefits.
... Dismissing Veto Threat, House Passes Student Loan Bill - The House approved stripping funds from a program in the health care law to avoid doubling student loan interest rates.
... National Briefing | New England: Rhode Island: Brown to Increase Pay to Providence - Brown University announced on Tuesday that it would increase its voluntary payments to the City of Providence, where officials are trying to shore up finances to avoid bankruptcy.
... National Briefing | South: Louisiana: Head of L.S.U. System Fired - John Lombardi, the president of the Louisiana State University System, was fired on Friday by the system?s governing board. Dr. Lombardi had clashed with Gov. Bobby Jindal?s administration.
... New York City Spares Bushwick Community High School From Closing - Bushwick Community High School, which has low graduation rates, was given another chance after showing signs of improvement.
... With G.O.P.?s Ear, Marco Rubio Pushes Dream Act Proposal - Senator Marco Rubio of Florida has been talking to Democrats and conservative Republicans about his plan to give students a chance to study and work here legally, albeit temporarily.
... Student Loan Debate Becomes Election-Year Fight - Both President Obama and Republicans say they want to keep a 3.4 percent student loan rate, but they vehemently disagree on how to do it.
... The Lady Jaguars: The Season Ends, and the Scoreboard Doesn?t Tell the Story - Tonya Lutz, a high school basketball champion, faces an uphill battle as the Carroll Academy girls coach, but players see her as a stable, trustworthy role model, unlike anyone they know.
... The Lady Jaguars: When Children Are Caught in the Cycle, Not All Can Be Saved - Patrick Steele, the security director at Carroll Academy, is the judge and jury that doles out discipline, but most students do not know how much he has in common with them.
... The Lady Jaguars: For Carroll Academy?s Players, Home is Not Always a Haven - For a 17-year-old senior now at Carroll Academy, a school for troubled teenagers in Huntingdon, Tenn., dreams of college gave way to fights, drug use and pregnancy.
... The Lady Jaguars: Court-Ordered Basketball, and No Fans - The nine players on the girls basketball team at Carroll Academy, a school for troubled teenagers in Huntingdon, Tenn., often outnumber their fans at games.
... The Lady Jaguars: At a School in Tennessee, a Basketball Team of Survivors - At Carroll Academy, a school for troubled teenagers in Huntingdon, Tenn., basketball is a means to provide the players supervision and structure and to teach them about teamwork and trust.
... Two Parties Find a Way to Agree, and Disagree, on Student Loan Rates - Republicans and Democrats are arguing over how to pay $6 billion for a subsidized benefit.
... App Smart: A Review of Living Language and Rocket Languages - App Smart - Two comprehensive language courses for mobile devices are vastly better in quality than apps that offer a small piece of the language learning experience.
... Group Says It Has Ceased Bomb Threats at University of Pittsburgh - Students headed to final exams at the University of Pittsburgh this week after a semester in which more than 100 bomb threats disrupted classes and emptied dorms.
... Gorbachev and Other Nobel Laureates Visit Chicago Schools - In Chicago for a gathering of Nobel Peace Prize winners, Mikhail S. Gorbachev and other historic figures dropped in on more than a dozen public schools throughout the city.
... Gotham: Pleading for the Life of a Brooklyn High School - On Thursday night, Brooklyn Community High School?s fate is to be decided by a mayoral-controlled panel that focuses on test scores and graduation rates.
... Malaysian Students Seek Full Political Rights - Parliament is legalizing students' right to join political parties, but many restrictions still apply, like allowing universities to decide on which parties are appropriate.
... On Education: Robo-Readers Used to Grade Test Essays - Computers are fast when it comes to grading test essays, but they can be fooled.
... Economic View: Preschool Tuition Race Is No Joke - Economic View - A faux news story on April Fool?s Day tackled the intense competition for acceptance into elite preschools. But the topic offers an important lesson about the limits of market forces.
... On Religion: At N.Y.U., Worshiping Baseball, for Credit - A New York University class, ?Baseball as a Road to God,? aims far higher than clichés about stadiums being ?green cathedrals.?
... Economix Blog: Judith Scott-Clayton: Are College Entrants Overdiagnosed as Underprepared? - For many high school graduates directed by colleges into remediation, it is like entering the Bermuda Triangle, never to emerge, an economist writes.
... About New York: In Deeds, Nuns Answer the Call of Duty - The Roman Catholic sisters of New York City have focused on social justice issues, but the Vatican has criticized them for not speaking up about conception and sexuality.
... On Education: On Report Cards for N.Y.C. Schools, Invisible Line Divides ?A? and ?F? - P.S. 30 and P.S. 179 are similar in nearly every aspect, yet one got New York City?s top grade and the other failed.
... Op-Ed Contributors: Much Ado About Students Loans - The student loan interest-rate fight is a distraction from the crisis of college affordability.
... Room for Debate: Got a Computer? Get a Degree. - Harvard and M.I.T. are going to offer free courses online, but not for credit. Why not?
... Op-Ed Columnist: The Campus Tsunami - What happened to the newspaper and magazine business is about to happen to higher education: a rescrambling around the Web and online learning.
... Op-Ed Columnist: Wasting Our Minds - Young people, even with a college degree, are entering an economy that just doesn?t seem to want them.
... Pre-Med?s New Priorities: Heart and Soul and Social Science - Can the MCAT identify that ethereal mix of scientist, humanist and spiritualist that makes a good doctor?
... SchoolBook: Pearson Tells State: We'll Do Better - Once again the state math and English tests created by Pearson are in the news, with a report that the educational company is feeling the pressure stemming from test errors that have caused 29 questions to be struck from the exams so far. Meanwhile, state Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl H. Tisch on Wednesday said Pearson's mistakes were "really disturbing."
... SchoolBook: For 24 Schools Getting New Start, 24 New Names - Two dozen public schools are being renamed as part of New York City?s strategy to qualify for nearly $60 million in federal grants to help the so-called struggling schools get fresh starts.
... SchoolBook: City Instructs Schools to Expand Common Core Introduction - In an effort to expand the introduction of a new set of learning standards into the city's public schools, officials are asking science and social studies teachers to introduce more reading and writing into students' classwork. This school year, English and math teachers have already begun to adapt their lessons to the new requirements.
... The Choice Blog: After Careful Analysis, Campus 'Vibe' Determined My Choice - Kyu Nakama, a senior at Brooklyn Technical High School in New York City, considered familiarity, location and quality of education of his top picks before making a college decision.
... The Choice Blog: 'Even Though It Took Me All Year, I Wouldn't Change a Thing' - Eric Eichelberger, a senior at Marist School in Atlanta, says he "could not be more ecstatic" to attend his dream college in the fall.
... The Choice Blog: Republicans in Senate Block Bill on Student Loan Rates - Legislation that was intended to prevent the doubling of some student loan interest rates is now in limbo.
... The Choice Blog: Harvard May Be a Long Shot, but Even the Lottery Has a Winner - Jason Solis, a senior at Long Beach Polytechnic in Long Beach, Calif, said his college choice surpassed his "wildest dreams."
... What Did You Spend on Public School This Year? - Supplies, trips, fundraisers and activity costs add up. Help us figure out how much public school parents are spending by completing our online form.
... It?s the Economy: Why Are Harvard Graduates in the Mailroom? - More industries are following Hollywood?s lottery system, offering potential wealth in exchange for terrible hours and low pay.
... On Education, What Would You Do as the British Prime Minister? - A major British bank is close to collapse. Do you bail it out publicly, help it out secretly or let it fail? Madrid business school students use a "10 Downing Street" simulation to learn decision-making.
... The Learning Network Blog: Kids Draw the News: The Case of the Missing Manholes - Kids Draw the News, in this case manhole thieves.
... The Learning Network Blog: When Should You Feel Guilty for Killing Zombies? - Have you ever felt qualms about killing a video game enemy?
... The Learning Network Blog: Obama Supports Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage - Why did President Obama say on Wednesday that he supported same-sex marriage?
... The Learning Network Blog: Test Yourself | English, May 10, 2012 - Can you choose the sentence that is punctuated correctly?
... The Goldilocks Effect: Babies Learn from Experiences That Are Not Too Simple, Not Too Complex, but 'Just Right' - EMBARGOED Until 5:00 P.M. May 23, 2012
Long before babies understand the story of Goldilocks, they have more than mastered the fairy tale heroine\'s method of decision-making. Infants ignore information that is too simple or too complex, focusing instead on situati... Campaign Contributions Influence Public Policy, Finds Study of 50 State Legislatures -
Although campaign contributions are widely viewed as a corrupting influence, for decades political scientists have failed to establish a direct connection between money and legislative outcomes.
... Institute of Optics Director Xi-Cheng Zhang Wins National Honor - Zhang Recognized for His Work in Spectroscopy
Xi-Cheng Zhang, director of the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester, has been named the winner of the Optical Society's 2012 William F. Meggers Award, which recognizes outstanding work in spectros... Commencement Speaker Ruth Simmons Urges Graduates to Value Human Dignity for All, Not the Privileged Few -
Commencement speaker and Brown University president Ruth J. Simmons receives an honorary degree from President Joel Seligman, left, and grand marshal Jesse T. Moore.
Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons kno... Randall Curren Awarded Fellowship to Institute for Advanced Study - Randall Curren, professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Rochester, has been selected as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., for 2012-13. Curren, whose research is in the philosophy and ethics of education, was the only p... University of Rochester Requests Password Changes Because of Vendor's Database Incident - A computer server at the University of Maine, which held some identifying information for customers of the University of Rochester\'s computer store, was breached by hackers on April 27. The affected database contained the name, address, email address, and network ID and password for about 2,100 ... Joseph H. Eberly to be Honored by the Optical Society - Joseph H. Eberly, the Andrew Carnegie Professor of Physics and professor of optics at the University of Rochester, has been named the winner of the Optical Society's 2012 Distinguished Service Award.
Eberly is being honored for outstanding service as founding editor of the groundbrea... University of Rochester Professor to Receive Grand Challenges Explorations Grant - Grant Will Be Used for Groundbreaking Research in Global Health and Development
University of Rochester biologist John Jaenike has been named a recipient of a grant from Grand Challenge... 2012 Best Translated Book Award Winners Announced - The winning titles and translators of this year\'s Best Translated Book Award were announced Friday, May 4, at New York\'s McNally Jackson Books as part of the PEN World Voices Festival. In poetry, Kiwao Nomura\'s Spectacle & Pigsty, translated from the Japanese by Kyoko Yoshida and Forres... University of Rochester Announces New Undergraduate Major in Digital Media Studies -
The University of Rochester will offer a new major in digital media studies in fall 2012 that will focus on the analysis and production of digital media, or new media, from two perspectives simultaneously: science and technology, and art and humanities. It is the latest major in Rochester\'s lo... Copyright © 2012, Internet Marketing Tools. All Rights Reserved. |