How higher education is like an investment bank...
This story has been all over the internet today. Here's the New York Times link, Baylor Rewards Freshman Who Retake the SAT. Here's the Inside Higher Education link; Baylor Pays for SAT Gains.Here's the Chronicle of Higher Education link; Baylor U.... Read more…
Open learning on the network
In the Newsbeam of October 2, 2008, Open Learning, I mentioned the new book by Toru Iiyoshi and M.S. Vijay Kumar, Opening Up Education . It's available for free download and it's a great vision of the future. In the recent... Read more…
More on assessing student learning; the momentum is building
In today's Inside Higher Education, Doug Lederman reports on a meeting held by the Teagle and Spencer foundations, urging higher education leaders to make their assessment activities more visible to the world outside of higher education, to be more systematic... Read more…
Through the tumult
This is a great term to teach a course in economics. Talk about current events! But the Panic of 2008 is not quite over, and its aftermath, as is usually the case, will be unpleasant to say the least. So,... Read more…
ARTstor image library
Technology marches on, and the University Library is leading the charge. A training session for interested faculty, to learn how to use the ARTstor digital image libray, will be held:When: Wednesday October 22, 2008 1:30 PM-3:00 PM Where: Alexander Library... Read more…
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- Beyond the ivory tower: Rutgers honors commitment to human rights
- Rutgers pitches in with Verizon Wireless to help domestic violence victims
- Rutgers Business School launches Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development
- Rutgers counseling program provides help to foster families
- University updates federal legislators on College Avenue greening
- First-year students guard their right to vote by studying rigged elections
- Camden interim chancellor co-authors book about reproductive revolution
- Event Highlights
- Rutgers will partner with Barnes & Noble to open collegiate superstore in New Brunswick
- Three first-year students recount their first weeks on campus
- Q & A: Marianne Gaunt takes the library into the 21st century
- Father and son musicians enroll at Mason Gross School of the Arts
Inside Higher Ed
- There Is Nothing Outside the Txt
- Quick Takes: Professors Protest 'Islamophobia' in Campaign, Emory Grant Frozen, Scholars From Afghanistan Missing, Trying to 'De-Nerdify' MIT
- HR at a Global University
- In Search of Self-Governance, Unionization?
- Baylor Pays for SAT Gains
- New Programs: Bioscience Technology, Sustainability, International Field Geosciences, Engineering
- Trying to Put the 'Dumb Jock Myth' to Rest
- Failure in Urban Universities
- Don't Be Afraid to Study War
- Should I Put My Students on a Melting Iceberg?
- Engaging Students as Volunteers and Voters
- Ig-Nobel Thoughts
- Upwardly Mobile Academic: Marvin Krislov
- Commuting for Love -- Winning Essay
- Commuting for Love
- Commuting for Love
- 'The Academic's Handbook'
- From Practice Room to Board Room
Observer
- Zombies, Guts, and Grandmas
- Why is America so Fat?
- Newark Beat
- LATINO LOVIN'
- CHESS CHAMP
- The Painful Haunted House
- COSTLY CONTRACEPTION
- PICKSBERG
- FOUNDER'S DAY FUN
- RECAP OF LATEST DEBATE
- POETS SPICE UP 'RUTGAZ'
- Gaming on a Budget
- IS THIS déjà vu, or have I seen this before?
- VIDEO GAME GPA
- PRESIDENCY FOR DUMMIES
- ENGLAND DESTROYs KAZAKHSTAN AT WEMBLEY IN WORLD CUP QUALFIER
- Quid rides? De te fabula narratur. (What are you laughing at? The joke's on you.)
- Q&A GETTING TO KNOW A R-N STUDENT!