http://www.profdig.com/news Your Source for Social News and Networking Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:53:40 CDT en http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=meetech-org-%7C-blogs http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=meetech-org-%7C-blogs Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:53:40 CDT http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=meetech-org-%7C-blogs
After pretty much saying that Meetech is not needed,

5 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=suing-dad-to-pay-for-college-the-week http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=suing-dad-to-pay-for-college-the-week Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:14:14 CDT http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=suing-dad-to-pay-for-college-the-week In a case that takes parent-child squabbles to a new level, a Connecticut woman has won a lawsuit against her father after he refused to pay for her senior year of college. Following her parents' 2004 divorce, Dana Soderberg - then an art major at Southern Connecticut State University - proc

3 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=foxnews-com-hockey-stick-climate-scientist-found-innocent-of-all-charges http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=foxnews-com-hockey-stick-climate-scientist-found-innocent-of-all-charges Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:00:32 CDT http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=foxnews-com-hockey-stick-climate-scientist-found-innocent-of-all-charges
Mann's seminal work was a 1998 climate study that showed a sharp, hockey-stick-shaped increase in the world's temperatures based on an analysis of age rings in trees. Despite ongoing criticism, the study formed the bac

3 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=yeah-thats-not-what-i-was-looking-for-at-all-27bslash6-com http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=yeah-thats-not-what-i-was-looking-for-at-all-27bslash6-com Fri, 02 Jul 2010 21:51:15 CDT http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=yeah-thats-not-what-i-was-looking-for-at-all-27bslash6-com It's a design thing. The cat is lost in the negative space.
Regards, David.
From: Shannon Walkley
Date: Monday 21 June 2010 10.33am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Poster

Thats just stupid. Can you do it properly please? I am extremely emotional over this and was up all night in tears. you seem to think it is funny. Can you make the photo bigger please and

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The findings are based on a review of 72 studies of 14,000 American college students overall conducted between 1979 and 2009. "We found the biggest d

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The creator of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and some of the most frequently misquoted catchphrases in the English l

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WHAT'S the key to success in the United States? Short of becoming a reality TV star, the answer is rote and, some would argue, rather knee-jerk: Earn a college degree.

The idea that four years of higher education will translate into a better job, higher earnings and a happier life - a refrain sure to be repeated this month at graduation ceremonies

5 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=how-i-became-a-bureaucrat-on-hiring-the-chronicle-of-higher-education http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=how-i-became-a-bureaucrat-on-hiring-the-chronicle-of-higher-education Sat, 15 May 2010 23:13:17 CDT http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=how-i-became-a-bureaucrat-on-hiring-the-chronicle-of-higher-education By David Evans
I've written several times here in the last year about a project we're undertaking at my institution to restructure workload to free faculty members to engage more extensively in mentoring student research, actively developing and supervising internship experiences, advancing their own scholarly expertise, enhancing international opportunities on campus,

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Deadline: 07/05/10
The Santa Fe Art Institute conducts a bi-annual competitive selection process for artist and writer residencies that focuses on the professional experience of the artist, the quality of their past work, and their potential to have a productive residency. The selection committees are comprised

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"I was listening to the national a

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[The University] says that while the change sounds minor, it will save money on ink when stude

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7 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=teaching-naked-www-ntlf-com http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=teaching-naked-www-ntlf-com Sat, 01 May 2010 00:54:11 CDT http://www.profdig.com/news/story.php?title=teaching-naked-www-ntlf-com Why Removing Technology from your Classroom Will Improve Student Learning (Extended article)
Jos� Antonio Bowen, Southern Methodist University

Flashy powerpoints with video and synchronous e-conferences are impressive, but the best reason to adopt technology in your courses is to increase and improve your naked, untechnological face-to-face interaction with students. Technol

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The chances of overhearing a conversation in Vlashki, a variant of Istro-Romanian, are greater in Queens than in the remote mountain villages in Croatia that immigrants now living in New York left years ago.

At a Roman Catholic Church in the Morrisania section of the Bronx, Mass is said once a month in Garifuna, an Arawakan language that originated wi

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