Share Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio Arizona Bill Challenges What Can Be Said in the Classroom In a bill introduced by Republican Senator Lori Klein, the use of “obsenities in the classroom, may get faculty members suspended or even removed from their jobs. The “G-rated” bill would require that lectures [...]
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Share Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio Hi I’m Julie Larsen and this is the BreakDrink Daily Dose for Thursday, January 26th. MTV Wants to Help You Find a Scholarship MTV has launched a Facebook app called “My College Dollars” which uses information from your profile to auto-fill a form, and [...]
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Share Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio Hi I’m Julie Larsen, and this is the BreakDrink daily dose for January 19th, 2012. Who Earns the Top 1%? According to a report from the NY Times, the top majors that give you a chance to earn enough to be a part of [...]
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Share Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio Texas Association of Business Blasts Community Colleges With Billboards Billboards have been popping up around Dallas and Austin, TX referencing low completion rates from the cities’ community college systems. A Dallas billboard reads “8% of DCCCD students graduate in 3 yrs. Is that fair [...]
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Share Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio I’m Julie Larsen and today is the BreakDrink Daily Dose for December 8, 2011 Shooter at Virginia Tech Around 12 noon EST a shooter was confirmed to be on campus at Virginia Tech. A Virginia Tech policeman was shot and killed in a traffic [...]
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Share Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio Gary and Julie were back to discuss the recent events in student affairs. DC Human Rights agency says “single-sex dorms” are not discriminatory Controversy over Shorter University faith statment Fisk University wants to sell Georgia O’Keeffe collection UC Davis run down: Recap of Town [...]
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Share Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio American Association of Community Colleges Creates Accountability System The American Association of Community Colleges has released the Voluntary Framework of Accountability as a uniform set of measures to track success among community college students. Tracking students who entered in 2005 and 2009, the data [...]
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Share Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio Where Have All the STEM Majors Gone? New data from UCLA reports that up to 60% of pre-med students and 40% of other STEM students end up changing their major prior to graduation. Many believe that this is due to lower level STEM courses [...]
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ShareRead today’s Daily Dose — audio to come tomorrow! Joe Paterno and President Graham Spanier Let Go from Penn State Late Wednesday night the Board of Trustees at Penn State decided to remove President Graham Spanier and longtime football coach Joe Paterno in the wake of child abuse allegations agains former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. [...]
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Share Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio Hi, I’m Julie Larsen and this is the BreakDrink Daily dose for November 3rd, 2011. University of Texas system makes $10 million investment in technology The University of Texas Board of Regents made the decision to invest $10 million in MyEdu, an Austin based [...]
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