I’ve been an educator for almost two decades now, 19 years or so. My mother taught everything from pre-school to high school special education. My grandmother taught elementary school. My uncle was a university professor in his early career. In my adolescent, I remember Mom bringing home papers to grade, assignments to evaluate, and lesson…
http://www.sciencefriday.com/embed/video/10444.swf Coyotes & the Biodiversity of Urban Environments; from ScienceFriday 4/6/2012 I like coyotes. They look like puppies, to me. Little Mr. Inquisitive in the frame above appears fascinated by the camera or something off camera. I understand people consider them a pest. Farmers in the Great Plain and the Mountain West have poisoned them…
At Ivory Tower State University, our dragon program historically has enjoyed a great reputation. Over last couple years, though, the dragon program has taken to slogging through the muck. Reputations are as fickle as the people upon whose shoulders those accolades rest, though. The hiring of individuals can really change a program, either for the…
The tablet market is simply stupid in my personal opinion. Apple developed a brilliant product in the iPad – full disclosure: I have one – and every technology clambered aboard the tablet bandwagon. I imagine engineers at Sony or Motorola being driven by corporate taskmasters to create a tablet to destroy the iPad and become…
A segment of the Travel Channel’s popular “No Reservations” show, with Anthony Bourdain Anthony Bourdain clearly has one of the best jobs ever. Travel. Meet. Eat. Drink. Swear. Sleep off the gluttony-induced euphoria and repeat. Bourdain’ shows are brilliant in both content and message: learn about people by talking to them, share their lives through…
“King Leopold’s Ghost, A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa;” by Adam Hochschild; Houghton-Miflin Company; 1998. ISBN 9780618001903. $15. Adam might have titled his book, a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, “E.D Morel, One Man’s Heroic Effort to Bring Down A King And Shame Western Society.” Hochschild’s history of colonial Belgian…
My discipline lives and breathes by technology. Personal computers helped revive the discipline of Geography beginning in the 1990’s. Along with rapid advancements in personal computer technology came application development environments such as Microsoft’s Visual Studio. Several companies were poised to avail themselves to rapid changes in personal computing technologies, Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI),…
March 27th, 2012 the Washington Post published an opinion/editorial by David C. Levy. Mr. Levy opined rising tuition cots are a function of a broken employment policy system within Higher Education. On the one hand, Mr. Levy attempted to assuage fears of gross misconduct across the higher education by suggesting few faculty were not working…
Someone, please, help me confirm the foundations of higher education. What is the basic purpose of higher education? And, if someone says, “to help me get a job,” I’m going to scream. Successful acquisition of employment is a by-product of higher education, not the answer I am looking for. Three-and-a-half to five years spent obtaining…
Cheating bothers me. As a child, I did not cheat. I was too afraid. Afraid of what teachers would think, afraid of upsetting my parents. Even more so, I knew cheating was wrong. Simple as that. Succeed or fail on my own effort. My grandparents were solid, ethical and moral people, my grandparents as the…
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