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Admissions:
Marilee Jones, the Dean of Admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), resigned from her post today “after it was confirmed that she had ‘misrepresented her academic degrees to the Institute,’ Dean for Undergraduate Education Daniel E. Hastings announced in an e-mail to the MIT community today.”
According to Jones, “I misrepresented my […]
Windy Blogs: WindMaker is amazing. It applies current wind conditions to a website: Here is my blog if it was outside in Columbus Junction, Iowa. via Kottke.
The Edusphere: I came across a couple interesting comments while Googling my site:
Anonymous said…
I have no reason to think he’s a stalker, but I’ve […]
via Basic Rights Oregon:
Today, after nearly 4 hours of debate on the House floor, both The Oregon Family Fairness Act (House Bill 2007) and The Oregon Equality Act (Senate Bill 2) passed the Oregon House with bipartisan support.
Senate Bill 2 will ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in areas such as […]
Horrible events have transpired today at Virginia Tech.
Why in the hell is it necessary that we have the “right” to bear arms? Hunting? Self-defense? Why do we need to have guns? I mean this is just crazy. The University of Utah cannot even legally bar guns on their campus.
Why are handguns […]
My current plate of consulting activities is currently full of heaping portions of projects. Thus the rationale for my recent spurt of blog posts. If I can get a lot of posts up in a short period of time then I may have more time to be productive. I could always go on another […]
Rankings:
A lot of enrollment management administrators ponder the effects of the U.S. News and World Report college rankings report. The report can lead to a lot of free publicity for those schools that are fortunate enough to be ranked by U.S News.
Portland State University was recently listed in the top-10 electrical engineering schools in […]
Blackboard had an amazing booth at the NASPA/ACPA Joint Meeting in Orlando. It was the size of small house and it looked like one too! Inside their mini-mansion, the folks from Blackboard were demoing their portal solution, the Blackboard Community System.
My first question to the Blackboard representative, upon seeing that the demo utilized frames, […]
The Division of Student Affairs at NC State University engage in strategic student affairs technology planning. There site includes downloadable technology planning checklists, technology position responsibility documents, technology planning overview and an overview of the student affairs division technology plan.
The folks at NC State might not be the first student affairs administrators to […]
Sam’s Station owners, managers, and staff, please read the following - “The Nordstrom Way to Customer Service Excellence: A Handbook For Implementing Great Service in Your Organization.”
I love the #3 — Spinach, Tomato, and Parmesan Cheese Omelet. It is one of my favorite breakfast dishes. However, something has to be done about the appalling […]
Here is the first 30 minutes of Al Gore’s keynote at the NASPA/ACPA 2007 Joint Meeting. [27 mb mp3]
The talk was fairly similar to An Inconvenient Truth. Vice President Gore used an Apple MacBook Pro and Keynote 3.0 to deliver his presentation. It’s probably the best infographic talk that I have ever witnessed. […]
