In July, Richard Stengel, editor of Time Magazine, interviewed Bill Gates about his theory of Creative Capitalism. A six-minute video from this interview is available on Time’s website. Gates passionately believes that technology provides solutions to many of the world’s key problems. He also believes that life changes due to technology can only occur where […]
An act of Congress in 1894 made the first Monday in September a federal holiday, Labor Day, in celebration of the American worker. The genesis of the holiday was a march on City Hall in New York City on September 5, 1882, by 10,000 workers who wanted to call attention to the issues of work […]
Cass R. Sunstein is a professor at the University of Chicago Law School and a prolific writer. In Infotopia, he portrays the various options for gathering information. Prediction markets, wikis, blogs and open source software are among the choices that he reviews. Deliberation is a process of decision making that most of us are familiar […]
As a recipient of financial aid in the 1970’s when I attended Duke and Tulane, I can relate to the continual and ongoing debate about the affordability of college. I was fortunate to have parents who believed in the benefits of higher education and who told me to “go to the best school that you […]
As part of our ongoing efforts to have certain degree programs recognized for their conformity to national standards and for their quality, our Bachelor of Arts in Child and Family Development was recently certified by the National Council on Family Relations. I asked Dr. Carol Passman, Program Director, to provide some background information on that […]
As an elementary school student in the 1960’s, I can remember my father commenting on the issue that the Soviet bloc athletes were professionals (paid by the state) and that America’s athletes were amateurs. I thought that was unfair until “we” redefined the participation rules and many of our professional athletes were allowed and encouraged […]
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Institutions receive accreditation from either a regional or national accrediting body. Generally, it’s the institution that receives accreditation which covers all the programs offered by that institution at the time of the accrediting visit. There are other accrediting bodies that accredit individual programs only, and that form of accreditation is referred to as specialty accreditation. […]
Today is the 162nd birthday of the Smithsonian Institute. On August 10, 1846, President James Polk signed an Act passed by Congress establishing the Smithsonian as a trust, to be administered by a Board of Trustees and a Secretary of the Institution. The impetus for this Act was a bequest by a British scientist, […]
Every four years, we experience the summer Olympics. They formally open today in Beijing, although women’s soccer has already kicked off. The Olympics are a major media event, one that NBC paid $1 billion for the rights to televise. While the athletes are there to perform at their best and many great athletes will be […]
Clayton Christensen, the author of The Innovator’s Dilemma, and Michael Horn and Curtis Johnson team up on this recently published book. In Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns, Christensen and his co-authors apply sound theory, research, and practicality to a subject that no one wants to tackle: reforming K-12 […]
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