If you have not heard today is the Day of Action, which is described by the Student Activism blog as; Day of Action to Defend Education is a grass-roots event in which students, faculty, and others are coming together around the country to speak and act. The Day of Action was originally conceived in California as [...]
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Goshen College recently lifted their 116 year ban on the national anthem being played at university events. Time Reports; For the first time in the school’s history, Goshen College will play an instrumental version of the national anthem before many campus sporting events. For more than a century, there was no playing of “The Star-Spangled [...]
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I am in a LinkedIn group titled Higher Education: Assessment and Process Improvement. Periodically, something interesting pops up in my email related to student affairs. A discussion thread started by Calvin Yu, Director at Rutgers University, posed this question to group members:’ “Are they Students? Or Customers?” Let the group know what you think.’ This [...]
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Working with students we hear some amazing stories. We all remember those moments when students have breakthrough or life changing experience, and those moments keep us going. I recently stumbled across a video featuring students from San Antonio College that discuss their life before stepping on campus and how it has changed them. It is [...]
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Yesterday on our Podcast, we had a great conversation with Erin Weed of Girls Fight Back. It made me think about how we teach safety and ask if we are doing enough to create a culture of non-violence on campus. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] As I reflected back on our conversation I [...]
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Yesterday we told you about riots that were sparked the early departure of their football coach Lane Kiffin. Today GoVolsXtra Report there were no arrest made during the protest. “There were no criminal arrests,” UT Police Department Capt. Keith Lambert said this morning. “A couple of them were detained and could go before student judicial [...]
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It was reported late Tuesday that Lane Kiffin would leave his position as coach of the University of Tennessee to take the recently vacated position at the University of Southern California. Kiffin leaves UT during an investigation of recruiting violations, and his quick departure has left many unhappy students in Knoxville. The Huffington Post is [...]
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Remember in April when we first started hearing about the Swine Flu? TV news was all swine flu all the time in their coverage, everyone was freaking out, schools were canceled (some for just reasons, some for fear), and as summer came, the news of H1N1 just faded away. As the fall semester started, I [...]
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Yesterday the Board of Regents for the University of California System voted to raise fees by 32%. The LA Times Reports The fee hike of $2,500, or 32%, will come in two steps by next fall. That would bring the basic UC education fees to about $10,300, plus about another $1,000 for campus-based charges, for [...]
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