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Presentation & discussion of educational opportunities in Cuba
Raul Rodriguez is the Assistant Director of the Center for Hemispheric and United States Studies at the University of Havana. Mon, May 13, 2013, 2-3.30pm, Knicely Conference Center 112 Source: Jerry...
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Graduation: Medallions, Commencement & Ceremony
Congratulations to our graduates! We are very proud of you! These are just a few friendly reminders Medallions If you are attending the luncheon at the Knicely Center this Friday, you will receive the...
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David Foster Wallace on the meaning and value of education: Like fish in water?
David Foster Wallace is widely considered to be one of the most creative writers of the last 20 years. He is the author of the novel Infinite Jest (1996). These are some excerpts from his commencement...
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Every Every Every Generation Has Been the Me Me Me Generation
Interesting critique in the Atlantic Wire of the current cover story of Time magazine, including an illustrated historical contextualization: Basically, it’s not that people born after 1980 are...
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Presentation & discussion of educational opportunities in Cuba
Raul Rodriguez is the Assistant Director of the Center for Hemispheric and United States Studies at the University of Havana. Mon, May 13, 2013, 2-3.30pm, Knicely Conference Center 112 Source: Jerry...
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Spaceship Earth: A sing-along exploration of cosmic motion
We live on a world that just will not sit still. Join Hardin Planetarium’s staff for a new, multi-media full-dome presentation exploring the many ways that we humans are hurtling through our...
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Paid editorial internships with The Chronicle of Higher Education this fall...
The Chronicle of Higher Education is seeking four interns for the fall 2013 session, which will begin in September and last through December. The Chronicle’s internships aim to give current...
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Honors Education at Research Universities (HERU) Inaugural Conference
Honors colleges and programs are very diverse in terms of size, programming and institutional setting. The way they operate and respond to challenges is very much a function of these conditions. This...
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The Hyperconnected Life
According to Teens and Technology 2013, a report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, millennials are likely to benefit and suffer from their hyperconnected lives. Interesting to note how...
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What we should pay attention to
Paying Attention in the Digital Age is a recent post by Nigel Thrift, vice-chancellor and president of the University of Warwick in England, on The Chronicle of Higher Education’s blog WorldWise:...
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Cities, MOOCs, Global Networks
GlobalHigherEd: Surveying the Construction of Global Knowledge/Spaces for the Knowledge Economy (cross-posted since 2010 on Inside Higher Ed), May 21, 2013 Kris Olds discusses the tangle of global...
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How Facebook Can Ruin Study Abroad
Cellphones and social media protect students from culture shock, and that’s a loss The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 14, 2013 Robert Huesca, Professor of Communication & Director of...
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“Creativity is just connecting things” (Steve Jobs)
Stephen Jay Gould, the great paleontologist, third culture intellectual and popularizer of science, who passed away eleven years ago this week, on the keys to creativity: Identify your talent, work...
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“Our challenge each day is not to get dressed to face the world but to...
Daily quote from a favorite book, thematically matched with a song. A side project by Maria Popova. We waste so much energy trying to cover up who we are when beneath every attitude is the want to...
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Ideals & Impact in International Education
This is the annual conference of the Association of International Educators (NAFSA), which Dr. Craig Cobane, Director of the Honors College & Chief International Officer of WKU, is attending. The...
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Annan praises study-abroad programs for promoting international understanding
Jo Mannies, St. Louis Beacon, May 28, 2013 The more I see and hear of the younger generation, the more confident I become. They are perhaps the first generation of truly global citzens who seem to...
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Wild Ones: Looking at people looking at animals in the Anthropocene
Maybe you have to believe in the value of everything to believe in the value of anything. This is reminiscent of Einstein’s famous dictum that There are only two ways to live your life. One is as...
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Rules Of Engagement: How Students Can Learn Well And Do Good
David Skorton (President of Cornell) & Glenn Altschuler (Vice President for University Relations at Cornell), Forbes, May 28, 2013 Thanks to Elizabeth Gish for pointing out this post. Dr. Gish...
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Welcome to the global remix
TEDGlobal 2013: Think Again, Edinburgh, Scotland, June 10-14, 2013 We are in the midst of a global remix. Disciplines merge and cross-pollinate. Technology intrudes into biology and society. Power and...
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