Inside Higher Ed June 14, 2011 Daily Update

Problems viewing this email? Click here to view this email with your browser. Daily News Update June 14, 2011 Good morning. Here's what's new on Inside Higher Ed today: News Want to advertise here? Blocked Transfer What does it say when a community college district in California sees more graduates go to private colleges or leave the state than enter public university systems? more Aiming Too High Growth plans -- and adjunct jobs -- at Roosevelt U. are jeopardized by failure to realize "overly optimistic" enrollment projections. more Ed School Business At Penn, the education experts organize a competition usually reserved for the MBAs. more Advertisement Cutting the Cord New study points to weaknesses in funding agencies' efforts to gauge "sustainability" of digital-resources projects. more Commencement Speakers Announced: Central European U., Eastern Connecticut, Ohio State, Salem State more Quick Takes Advertisement » Bethany University Will Close » Catholic U. Will Return to Single-Sex Dorms » Music School Will Merge With Bard » British University Moves to Add Junior Faculty » Socioeconomic Status and For-Profit Enrollments » From Provost to Education Dean » Where Low-Income Students Go to College » Academic Minute: Disasters and Economic Recovery » Controversial Journalism Prof to Retire Views What Bubble? Robert B. Archibald and David H. Feldman question recent predictions that higher education is about to face a major collapse. more Financial Aid Professionals! Bursars! Enrollment Managers! Admissions Counselors! Early Bird rate for NASFAA's premier financial aid conference ends June 17. Boston. July 17-20. Be there! Advertisement BlogU Ask the Administrator: Should I Run for Chair? Confessions of a Community College Dean A new correspondent writes:I am a rather new full time faculty member at a community college. I have not been here long enough to qualify to run for chairperson of my department. My dean has ... more Dispatches from the Future Library Babel Fish You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a route that passes through the middle ground between light and shadow. Your next stop - the copyright ... more A Mobile Learning Platform Matrix Technology and Learning Full Laptop (Windows / Mac)Tablet (iPad / Android / PlayBook / others?)Smart Phone (Android / iPhone / Blackberry / others?)UltraBooks (Google Chromebook, Coming Products)ProsFull interaction with ... more Analyze globally, mitigate regionally Getting to Green A lot of us in the sustainability community have gotten hung up on global scale. Maybe not all the time, but much of it. After all, it's global warming. Global climate change. Greenhouse gases ... more Mothering at Mid-Career: End of an Era Mama PhD Last Wednesday, Nick and I went to our last tae kwon do class. Or at least the last for a while. We had taken the month of May off, as we both had lots of late afternoon activities that were going to ... more What do the Egyptian Student Elections Mean?: The Backdrop and Campaign (Part 1) The World View The situation of Egyptian universities reflects the immense challenges and conflicts the country faces in the transformation since Mubarak was forced to step down on February 11th. The Minister of ... more Journal 9 The Education of Oronte Churm "If you don't know any better, then what you got is the best there is."--Frenchy, on how my son loved his Cub Scout den meetings, where they ate sweets, discussed daytime TV, and thrashed in ... more Still spending big on print classifieds? Posting jobs online with Inside Higher Ed beats advertising in print hands down. Now through June 30, enter the discount code JUNE2 at checkout to get $25 off your posting. POST NOW! Advertisement Featured Jobs Assistant Professor - Library & Information Science (2-positions) University of Denver Department Introduction:The Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree at the University of Denver (DU) is ALA-accredited and has 150-160 students enrolled. Specialization areas include ... more VP of Education and Training Real Estate Investor Education We are looking for a proven leader who can help improve and create better educational systems, processes, methods, delivery modalities, and curriculum to help improve the student experience and the ... more Assistant Professor of Theatrical Movement New Paltz, State University of New York Responsibilities: The faculty member will teach courses including Introduction to Movement, Theatrical Movement, Acting 1, and general education courses. Other responsibilities include coaching ... more Assistant Professor of Language & Literature Oklahoma Christian University The department of Language and Literature at Oklahoma Christian invites applications for an Assistant Professor position to begin Fall 2012. Candidates should emphasize their ability to teach ... more English Linguistics City Colleges of Chicago The City Colleges of Chicago (CCC) District 508, is the largest community college system in Illinois and one of the largest in the nation, with 5,800 faculty and staff serving 120,000 students at ... more Chief Human Resources Officer Elgin Community College Elgin Community CollegeElgin, ILChief Human Resources Officer Elgin Community College has a full-time opportunity for a human resource professional to provide leadership of our multi-faceted ... more Looking for more information? To make sure you get the next issue of our newsletter, please add newsroom@insidehighered.com to your address book. 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