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Gender Equity on Science Faculties Might Have to Wait a Century, Study Finds

Dean — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:26:21 +0000

It may be 2050 before 50 percent of new hires are female and at least another 40 years before the actual faculty population is 50 percent women.
Gender Equity on Science Faculties Might Have to Wait a Century, Study Finds

100 Years!! That just seems WRONG!

Marriage Suits Educated Women

Dean — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:24:57 +0000

TODAY women earn almost 60 percent of all bachelor’s degrees and more than half of master’s and Ph.D.’s. Many people believe that, while this may be good for women as income earners, it bodes ill for their marital prospects.

Marriage Suits Educated Women.

Stanford Raises $6.2-Billion, a Record for Higher Education

Dean — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:23:43 +0000

In a five-year fund-raising campaign that concluded December 31, Stanford University raised $6.2-billion, the largest sum ever collected in a single campaign by a higher-education institution, the university announced on Wednesday.

The money will go toward a variety of university projects, including 38 new or renovated campus buildings, $250-million in need-based scholarships for undergraduate students, 130 new endowed faculty appointments, and 360 new fellowships for graduate students. More than 166,000 alumni, parents, students, and others made 560,000 donations since the campaign began in 2006, the university said in a news release.

Stanford Raises $6.2-Billion, a Record for Higher Education

Bankruptcy Lawyers Warn of Student-Loan ‘Debt Bomb’

Dean — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:20:49 +0000

In the survey of 860 bankruptcy lawyers, four out of five respondents reported a “significant” or “somewhat significant” increase in potential clients with student-loan debt; nearly two out of five said they had seen their potential student-loan-client caseloads jump by 25 to 50 percent in the past three or four years, and about a quarter had seen caseloads jump by more than 50 percent.

Bankruptcy Lawyers Warn of Student-Loan ‘Debt Bomb’

Harvard Seeks to Jolt University Teaching

Dean — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:26:25 +0000

Too often, faculty members teach according to habits and hunches, said Carl E. Wieman, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and associate director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, who has extensively studied how to improve science education.

In large part, the problem is that graduate students pursuing their doctorates get little or no training in how students learn. When these graduate students become faculty members, he said, they might think about the content they want students to learn, but not the cognitive capabilities they want them to develop.

Harvard Seeks to Jolt University Teaching

The architecture meltdown

Dean — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:05:28 +0000

One of the coolest creative-class careers has cratered with the economy. Where does architecture go from here?

The architecture meltdown

Smaller Colleges Rely on Paid Student Recruiters Overseas

Dean — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:03:15 +0000

Green River Community College, 45 minutes south of Seattle, has no special overseas cachet, no global name recognition — but it has enrolled 1,400 international students this year, most of them recruited by overseas agents who get 15 percent of the $9,732 first-year tuition

Smaller Colleges Rely on Paid Student Recruiters Overseas.

Quiet, Please: Unleashing The Power Of Introverts

Dean — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:32:28 +0000

From Gandhi to Joe DiMaggio to Mother Teresa to Bill Gates, introverts have done a lot of good work in the world. But being quiet, introverted or shy was sometimes looked at as a problem to overcome.

Quiet, Please: Unleashing The Power Of Introverts

Everything You Thought You Knew About Learning Is Wrong

Dean — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:31:10 +0000

Taking notes during class? Topic-focused study? A consistent learning environment? All are exactly opposite the best strategies for learning. Really, I recently had the good fortune to interview Robert Bjork, director of the UCLA Learning and Forgetting Lab, distinguished professor of psychology, and massively renowned expert on packing things in your brain in a way that keeps them from leaking out. And it turns out that everything I thought I knew about learning is wrong.

Everything You Thought You Knew About Learning Is Wrong

Made in the World

Dean — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:09:45 +0000

If only — if only — we could come together on a national strategy to enhance and expand all of our natural advantages: more immigration, most post-secondary education, better infrastructure, more government research, smart incentives for spurring millions of start-ups — and a long-term plan to really fix our long-term debt problems — nobody could touch us. We’re that close.

Made in the World