Inside Higher Ed June 10, 2011 Daily Update

Problems viewing this email? Click here to view this email with your browser. Daily News Update June 10, 2011 Good morning. Here's what's new on Inside Higher Ed today: News Want to advertise here? Mind the (Scholarship) Gap Major conferences debate whether athletics grants should be expanded to cover full cost of college attendance; critics say move could create further inequities. more MBA in Job-Hunting? Wake Forest business school raises placement rate by hiring a slew of career coaches and creating a course in career planning. more Cleaning House in Chicago Mayor endorses plan to replace five of city system's seven community college presidents. more Advertisement Eye of the Beholder Study finds reason some students perceive political bias from professors may have to do with students' identities, not what goes on in class. more Entrepreneurship vs. Scholarship? Trying to wring revenues from research poses risks to academe, one scholar warns. more Quick Takes Advertisement » Federal Panel Recognizes 3 More Accreditors; Rough Ride for ABA » Cuomo Backs Tuition Increases for SUNY » SMU Blocked Publication of Critical Column » Academic Minute: Common Law » Symbol of Growing Israeli-German Ties » Venezuela's University for Indigenous Students Views The Facebook Mirror The social networking site makes it more difficult to teach students to write for those other than themselves, writes Lisa Lebduska. more Teachable Moments more Sloan-C/MERLOT Emerging Technologies for Online Learning Symposium - July 11-13. Register as virtual attendee - $99 by June 17 plus buy 2 get 1 free offer! Advertisement Career Advice The Well-Dressed Academic Entrepreneurship and the Academic If you're thinking about doing work in a non-academic setting, style matters -- but there's no need to be intimidated, Jessica Quillin writes. 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 BlogU Bertie Goes to College Confessions of a Community College Dean Several alert readers pointed me this week to the launch of the New College of the Humanities in England. Although much of what I've read about it has been maddeningly vague, it seems to be a ... more Conferences and Unconferences Library Babel Fish I had an unusually busy travel year. Usually, I go to one conference - at most. This time I went to an embarrassing number, and most of them were out of my discipline. One I went to because I got ... more 'The Man Who Lied to His Laptop' - And Yelled at His LMS Technology and Learning The Man Who Lied to His Laptop: What Machines Teach Us About Human Relationships by Clifford Nass and Corina Yen One of the things you will learn from The Man Who Lied to His Laptop is that being ... more Ms. Istanbul: The Metropolis (Ms.) as Professor University of Venus When I was a high school student, my friends and family and I, had a favorite topic of discussion: What kind of a city is ideal for a university student life?Some claimed that a more manageable city ... more Math Geek Mom: Summer Vacations, Yesterday and Today Mama PhD There is a concept in math called the "well ordering property" that states that every nonempty set of integers has a least element. If we were to list, for example, the odd integers, we could ... more Journal 8 The Education of Oronte Churm Walking Wolfie in to preschool, hand-in-hand. He asks me to go with him down the hall to the classroom. Then, precise routine of goodbye, three kisses each—left cheek, right cheek, forehead. His ... more Featured Jobs 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 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 Assistant Professor, Health and Natural Sciences Goodwin College PRIMARY DUTIES: - Primary teaching responsibilities to include lecture and laboratory sections for Environmental Health and Health Sciences. - Other teaching assignments may include additional ... more Associate Director for Assessment University of Georgia The Office of Academic Planning at The University of Georgia is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Associate Director for Assessment. As a leading member of a team, this position will ... more Online Tutors: IT, Sciences, Statistics & Finance SMARTHINKING, Inc. Candidates can work from any location with computer and Internet access. Tutors typically work anywhere from 8 to 29 hours a week. To qualify, individuals must have substantial teaching/tutoring ... 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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