Inside Higher Ed June 20, 2011 Daily Update

Problems viewing this email? Click here to view this email with your browser. Daily News Update June 20, 2011 Good morning. Here's what's new on Inside Higher Ed today: News Want to advertise here? Saying More With Less To focus institutions, some administrators have taken the unconventional step of creating exceptionally short mission statements, and placing them front and center. more Nuances of Brain Drain Does globalization mean that the best talent is destined to flock to selected countries? Are equity issues being ignored? more Access and Equity -- Worldwide University leaders from 80 countries gather for triennial meeting. more Advertisement Changeover for Career College Group Harris Miller resigns abruptly as chief executive of association of for-profit colleges, citing exhaustion. Board said to be tired of him, too. more New Programs: Environmental Studies, Education, Criminal Justice, Pharmacy more Quick Takes Advertisement » Giving to Education Rose 5.2% in 2010 » Reports Launch Effort on Education of Minority Males » Amid Plagiarism Dispute, Medical Dean Steps Down » Senate Will Investigate Effort to Discredit Professor » Ohio Vote Likely on Repealing Union Law » Academic Minute: Nanoparticles » Salisbury Will Continue SAT-Optional Experiment » Ohio State's Compliance Director Has Free Car Views Under Assault Randolph Lewis describes how the political attacks on Texas universities appear to one who teaches there. 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 Career Advice Getting a Job in Philosophy Brian L. Keeley offers advice for graduate students in his field and other humanities disciplines. more What's new and exciting in academe? Academic Minute. Professors discuss ideas from the serious to the light-hearted. WAMC Northeast Public Radio. Advertisement BlogU Fundraising Confessions of a Community College Dean The always-interesting Tenured Radical has a worthwhile post on the priorities that "development" (that is, fundraising) offices tend to have in higher ed. Her particular focus is high-profile ... more An $18 Million, 3 Year, Ed Tech Dataset Proposal Technology and Learning Proposal Overview: This project will develop and disseminate a representative dataset of anonymous information from U.S. postsecondary enterprise learning management, lecture capture, media ... more Starting Strong: Your First Days on Campus University of Venus In the span of approximately three years, I started three new jobs at new institutions. So when my fellow UVenus writer Meg Palladino told me she would be taking a new position and switching ... more Economics- the 360 degree view Provost Prose Be careful what you wish for. By the end of last week, I was looking for a reprieve from Anthony Weiner stories. Every newscast I watched or listened to and almost every bulletin on the internet ... more Summer Plans Mama PhD I enjoyed reading about Aeron's "vacation" activities and thought I would continue the thread.Because I work for myself, I don't get an official vacation -- I just take days off here and there, ... more The Internet Makes Fools of Us All: Leave Weiner Alone Now Law, Policy -- and IT? He resigned. That was the right thing to do. Washington is about politics. He got caught in that vortex. Having elected to play that game, he lost by breaking the rule of making your party ... more An end of the string Getting to Green Ever have one of those days where you wake up smarter than you went to sleep?Well, maybe not smarter in an abstract sense, but knowing more?That sometimes happens to me when I've been wrestling with ... more Featured Jobs Business Facilty at Onondaga County Community College State University of New York College of Technology at Delhi Responsibilities include program promotion, recruitment and advisement of students enrolled in the program, teaching upper division courses in business and technology management, administrative tasks, ... more Dean of Engineering Michigan Technological University The Dean of Engineering is the chief academic and administrative officer for the COE and reports directly to the Provost. The Dean is responsible for strategic planning, development, and ... more Dean, Katherine Reese Pamplin College of Arts and Sciences Augusta State University Augusta State University, a comprehensive state institution offering undergraduate and graduate degrees, seeks an exceptional academic administrator to serve as Dean of the Katherine Reese Pamplin ... more Management and Accounting Instructor Tri-County Technical College Management and Accounting Instructor The Accounting and Management programs at Tri-County College is seeking a dynamic, experienced instructor with the background to teach both Management and ... more Assistant/Associate Professor in Biochemistry with Chemistry background Lebanese American University The Lebanese American University, department of Natural Sciences invites applicants for a tenure track faculty position at the rank of Assistant/Associate professor in Biochemistry with a solid ... more Visiting Assistant Professor of French (1-2 year appointment) Colgate University The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures invites applications for a one-year Visiting Assistant Professor of French. PhD required at the time of appointment (July 1, 2011). Position is ... 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. Click here for information on how to advertise on our Daily News Update newsletter. If you would no longer like to receive Daily News Updates from Inside Higher Ed, please unsubscribe. For questions or comments about this service, please e-mail newsroom@insidehighered.com. © Copyright 2011 Inside Higher Ed. Inside Higher Ed · 1015 18th Street NW, Suite 1100 · Washington, DC 20036