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Huge Databases Offer a Research Gold Mine — and Privacy Worries
Date CapturedTuesday June 03 2008, 8:14 PM
By DAVID GLENN from the issue dated May 9, 2008 Chronicle of Higher Education, "Researchers have used the new databases to study many issues, including which high-school math courses are most important for college success and how exposure to adjunct instructors affects student retention. But the new education databases create obvious challenges for protecting student privacy — which is one reason most states have been slow to build them. Florida's education department takes elaborate steps to 'de-identify' its information before handing it to outside researchers. Despite those efforts, nervous officials in other states look at a system like Florida's and worry about potential violations of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or Ferpa. In March the U.S. Department of Education proposed new Ferpa regulations that might clarify the ground rules for the use of such databases, but it is far from certain that the new rules will make states more comfortable with the projects." http://chronicle.com -- Section: The Faculty -- Volume 54, Issue 35, Page A10
Let's give the influx of students a welcome
Date CapturedMonday August 27 2007, 10:54 AM
Troy Record opines, "Over the last few years, under the stewardship of Dr. Shirley Jackson, what may considered to be nothing more than lip service has become an actuality. To think of RPI, its faculty, staff and student body as existing in a bubble of its own is to subscribe to a reality that is now, fortunately, in the past. Freshman orientation now includes a mandatory trip through downtown Troy, and students have shown their mettle consistently by becoming community volunteers, particularly in programs helping disadvantaged youth."
RIT campus installing emergency alert system
Date CapturedThursday August 16 2007, 7:04 AM
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reports, "The system will alert students, faculty members and staff employees using text messaging, instant messaging, e-mail and voice calls to cell and dormitory phones."
Ithaca City School District faculty member appointed to task force on preschool special education
Date CapturedThursday July 26 2007, 1:02 PM
Ithaca Journal reports, "The task force, which is comprised of 13 education professionals from across the state, was created to study ways of improving early education for children with disabilities. The group will examine the transition between early childhood programs and elementary school, the cost of preschool special education programs and the task force will do a comparative study of different state's special education preschool programs. Jasinski said he is excited to be part of the task force."
Zogby Poll: Most Think Political Bias Among College Professors a Serious Problem
Date CapturedSaturday July 14 2007, 8:51 AM
Asked whether they think the quality of a college education today is better or worse than it was 25 years ago, 46% said they think it is worse, while 29% said it is better. Another 16% said the quality now is about the same as it was a generation ago
Patrons’ Sway Leads to Friction in Charter School
Date CapturedFriday June 29 2007, 9:04 AM
NY Times DAVID M. HERSZENHORN reports, "The Reichs said the problem was that the board was 'constituency-based' and that they wanted members with practical skills like fund-raising or public relations instead. To get the changes, they threatened in a strongly worded letter to cut off their support unless all but three of the board members resigned. Among those told to quit were five parent and faculty representatives. At a board meeting last month, parents lashed out at the Reichs, angrily describing their relationship as that of master and servant or landlord and tenant."
PROF'S RECORD 142G PAY HIKE
Date CapturedMonday June 04 2007, 9:50 AM
NY Post Fredric U. Dicker writes, "It was revealed earlier that Dr. Alain Kaloyeros, the head of SUNY's state-of-the-art College of Nanoscale Science and Technology in Albany, was earning $525,000-a-year. Then last week, SUNY officials - without any notice to the public - granted Kaloyeros, 51, the unprecedented raise, bringing his annual state salary to $666,995."
Raising the bar at SUNY
Date CapturedSunday June 03 2007, 9:51 AM
Times Union opines, "More full-time faculty will make it possible to lure more top-flight academics to campuses throughout New York. As as the quality of the faculty rises, so will the number of top-achieving students seeking to enroll. In short, quality breeds quality."
COLLEGE CRISIS
Date CapturedSaturday May 26 2007, 8:17 AM
NY Post op-ed contributor Matthew Goldstein, chancellor of The City University of New York opines, "The graduate students forming the next generation of postsecondary instructors come increasingly from foreign lands. This has two serious adverse consequences for our students. First, once trained, many of these accomplished individuals leave the United States to pursue opportunities in their home countries. And among those who may remain, many have significant difficulties speaking English. Even as we face these challenges in replacing faculty, we expect the trend of increased student enrollment to continue."
Stony Brook posts personal info by mistake
Date CapturedTuesday May 22 2007, 8:57 AM
Newsday reports, "Instead of the usual fundraising pitch or another notice, letters sent to tens of thousands of Stony Brook University affiliates earlier this month contained disturbing news: The university had inadvertently posted their personal information on the Internet. The letters, dated May 7, said that during a Web site overhaul, the Health Sciences Center library had made public a long-dormant file containing the names and Social Security numbers of 89,853 current and former faculty, staff, students, alumni and others. The file had been stored on a university Web server from 2002 until it was inadvertently copied to a publicly accessible area."
Colleges must learn to teach
Date CapturedSunday April 08 2007, 10:05 AM
Times Union THOMAS TOCH and KEVIN CAREY write, "Ironically, our global dominance in research and persistent mediocrity in undergraduate education are closely related. Both are the result of the same choices. The 17 institutions atop the Shanghai rankings are driven by professional and financial incentives that favor research and scholarship over teaching. Funding from the federal government, publish-or-perish tenure policies, and college rankings from the likes of U.S. News & World Report all push universities and professors to excel at their research mission. There are no corresponding incentives to teach students well. Take the U.S. News rankings. Ninety-five percent of each college's score is based on measures of wealth, fame and admissions selectivity. As a result, college presidents looking to get ahead focus on marketing, fundraising and recruiting faculty with great research credentials instead of investing their resources in helping undergraduates learn and earn degrees."
Good calls on education
Date CapturedWednesday April 04 2007, 8:49 AM
Times Union opines, "While it will take time before the full impact of the first state budget under Governor Spitzer is fully known, three results are readily apparent. And all of them are positive."
Help SUNY
Date CapturedFriday March 30 2007, 8:03 AM
Times Union opines, "SUNY full-time faculty has been shrinking for years, with the gap made up by part-time instructors who often have other jobs that demand most of their energies. That's a disservice to students, who rely on a highly qualified faculty not only for instruction, but also for follow-up support, such as conferences, letters of reference and scholarly guidance. Part-time faculty often do not have the time to do so."
SUNY students lobby for more funding, faculty
Date CapturedFriday March 02 2007, 8:18 PM
Legislative Gazette reports, "In his Executive Budget, Gov. Eliot Spitzer proposed SUNY receive $143 million to sustain the growing university system, but according to [SUNY Chancellor]Ryan, the university is in need of much more money. Ryan requested an additional $120.6 million to fund more programs, hire more full-time faculty and to funnel funding into community colleges. New York’s higher education system was given the highest starting ground in two decades and, according to Ryan, this unique opportunity may help the university to receive desperately needed additional funding."
Educated opinions important part of education
Date CapturedThursday March 01 2007, 8:11 AM
Arizona State University Web Devil opines, "In summary, as an effort to prevent teachers from expressing or advocating political opinions in classrooms, legislators have introduced a bill that would make it illegal for teachers to take a stand on controversial issues, require schools to educate faculty, students and their families on such policies. The bill also outlines penalties for violations."
The Segregation of American Teachers
Date CapturedWednesday February 21 2007, 9:44 AM
By Erica Frankenberg, M.Ed., is a Research Assistant at The Civil Rights Project and Professor Gary Orfield, Professor of Education and Social Policy and Director of the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University. "This report shows that in an increasingly segregated national system of schools, faculty segregation tends to add to — rather than counteract — the separation of students. We see that the white teachers, who continue to dominate the teaching profession, tend to grow up with little racial/ethnic diversity in their own education or experience. Not only did white teachers, on average, attend schools when they were elementary school students that were over 90% white, they are currently teaching in schools where almost 90% of their faculty colleagues are white and over 70% of students are white."
Vitality after UAlbany
Date CapturedWednesday December 27 2006, 5:08 AM
Times Union reports, "Retiring professors close the door on their careers as full-time teachers, but the University at Albany has opened another door for them. The new Emeritus Center -- part lounge, computer lab and meeting room -- will allow retired professors to stay connected to the university and continue their research. The university community can tap the retirees institutional memory, and the professors will have access to office space, research grants and other like-minded scholars."
Web Site Allows Students to Rate Professors
Date CapturedSaturday December 23 2006, 8:53 AM
NPR reports, "A popular Web site allows college students to go online and praise or criticize them. And therein lies the rub: Critics say there's no way of knowing who's posting such comments."
Ithaca Central School District report shows shortfalls in minority staff, AP participation
Date CapturedThursday December 21 2006, 7:26 AM
Ithaca Journal reports, "Diversity among faculty continues to be a struggle for the district. Of the 18 confidential or managerial positions, none are held by minorities. In 2005, only six percent of the district's teachers were minority, while 28 percent of the students the district educated were African-American, Latino, Native American or Asian. District Superintendent Judith Pastel said the district will be trying new ways to let a more diverse pool of people know openings exist in the area. 'For the first time we are going to use radio to advertise open positions,' she said. Beginning next year, the district will advertise on Power 106.9-FM, an urban radio station in Syracuse. The report card will be released every fall, the officials said."
UCLA Probes Computer Security Breach
Date CapturedTuesday December 12 2006, 11:01 AM
AP reports, "The University of California, Los Angeles alerted about 800,000 current and former students, faculty and staff on Tuesday that their names and certain personal information were exposed after a hacker broke into a campus computer system. It was one of the largest such breaches involving a U.S. higher education institution."
Bricks or Professors? A University’s Choice
Date CapturedWednesday December 06 2006, 3:55 AM
NY Times contributor Samuel G. Freedman, professor of journalism at Columbia University writes, "After T. K. Wetherell was appointed president of Florida State in early 2003, and as the building costs escalated, the university decided to drop the endowed positions and to construct a more general kind of chemistry center. So Professor Holton sued in state circuit court to get his money back. This fall, a judge ordered Florida State to return $11 million plus interest — $13.5 million in all — to the professor’s foundation, while permitting the university to keep and spend the $18.5 million from the professor’s lab account however it wishes."
Online learning demand outgrowing supply at Empire State College, ACC
Date CapturedTuesday December 05 2006, 1:29 PM
Post-Star reports, "The Sloan study showed that 38 percent of chief academic officers found that online courses presented several barriers, including more time and effort to prepare the courses, students needing more self-discipline to succeed, and faculty often aren't convinced online learning is worthwhile."
Pod-class aids learning
Date CapturedTuesday December 05 2006, 5:10 AM
NY Daily News reports, "A new program at Lehman College is making it easier to learn what faculty members have been up to by putting some of their research online in podcast form. The college describes the project, which began as a CUNY-wide initiative, as an opportunity to showcase prominent Lehman faculty, as well as their involvement in important research."
"A profound national crisis in higher education"
Date CapturedThursday November 30 2006, 1:10 PM
NRO contributor George Leef, director of the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy writes, "The fact that employing adjunct faculty helps significantly in keeping down the cost of going to college barely appears at all in this discussion."
Professors Honored By CNY Education Consortium
Date CapturedThursday November 30 2006, 9:22 AM
SUNY Oswego faculty members Florence Kirk, associate professor of accounting, and Julie Pretzat, professor and chair of music, received Philip Martin Educator of Excellence Awards at the consortium's 14th annual Professional Partnerships Conference in Syracuse last month.
Act On Fact: Using Data to Improve Student Success.
Date CapturedMonday November 27 2006, 3:28 PM
CCSSE has released its 2006 National Report, Act On Fact: Using Data to Improve Student Success. This report asks the questions, "Which students are having a more productive college experience? For whom is our current practice working? Who, if anyone, might be left behind? What are the differences in various students’ experiences? Are certain practices mandatory for some students but not for others? Should they be required for all students? What practices are built into the classroom experience now? Should we incorporate more expectations, activities, or services into coursework?"
Community college is less engaging for part-timers
Date CapturedMonday November 27 2006, 3:23 PM
USA TODAY reports, "There is a 'significant difference' in the experiences of part-time and full-time students at community colleges, a new report finds. And a key reason, it suggests, is that part-time students — who represent about two-thirds of those at all community colleges — are more likely to be taught by part-time faculty."
Balancing views on campus
Date CapturedMonday November 27 2006, 5:19 AM
Boston Globe contributor Cathy Young writes, "DIVERSITY in higher education was a major topic of discussion at a recent conference in Cambridge . The focus, however, was not on the familiar concept of diversity as a desirable mix of races, genders, and ethnic groups. Rather, participants deplored the lack of intellectual and political diversity on college campuses."
Pima Community College creates "traffic school" for plagiarists
Date CapturedSunday November 26 2006, 1:03 PM
KVOA.com reports, "The five-step program requires students to read articles about plagiarism and write a paper explaining why they stole someone else's work. They must then meet with a writing tutor to learn about proper citation, and sit down with a faculty committee to talk about the process."
SUNY submits $5.9B budget
Date CapturedWednesday November 22 2006, 4:59 AM
Times Union reports, "It includes money for 133 new faculty and new initiatives, such as an online program that tracks student progress, redesigning introductory courses to make them more engaging for students and a salary boost for graduate students."
SUNY chief cites plans to improve
Date CapturedSaturday November 18 2006, 3:37 PM
Poughkeepsie Journal reports, "Ryan plans to hire more full-time faculty, instead of relying so heavily on part-time and adjunct instructors. In the 2005-06 school year, 62.2 percent of SUNY faculty were full time. Keeping schools affordable and accessible is key, he said. Ryan wants to establish a 'rational tuition' policy, something where tuition prices could be increased gradually, but rates locked in over students' four years of college."
University of Vermont ROTC official describes plans for Plattsburgh State
Date CapturedWednesday November 15 2006, 7:33 AM
The Press Republican reports, "The debate over whether to start an ROTC program at Plattsburgh State was at times contentious but ended with the Student Association, Faculty Senate and college president supporting the idea. Koebrich has 65 cadets in his program, spread over seven universities. 'It is a very small program,' he said, pointing out that this year about 2,400 officers nationwide will graduate into the regular Army from ROTC, which is organized around a series of host schools and affiliate programs."
Making the Grade: Online Education in the United States, 2006
Date CapturedThursday November 09 2006, 8:46 AM
Study concludes: "Problem areas identified in previous years are still seen as areas of concern among academic leaders. • Only 4.6 percent of Chief Academic Officers agreed that there are no significant barriers to widespread adoption of online learning. • Nearly two-thirds of the academic leaders cite the need for more discipline on the part of online students as a critical barrier. • Faculty issues, both acceptance of online and the need for greater time and effort to teach online, are also important barriers. • Neither a perceived lack of demand on the part of potential students nor the acceptance of an online degree by potential employers was seen as a critical barrier." I. Elaine Allen, Ph.D., and Jeff Seaman, Ph.D., November 2006
More students turn to the Web for college classes
Date CapturedThursday November 09 2006, 3:55 AM
The Washington Times reports on a survey to be released today, "The Sloan survey results also suggest academic officials are becoming more comfortable with online learning. About 62 percent of chief academic officers said they felt students learned as well or better from online courses as they did in face-to-face ones. However, that left about 38 percent who found online courses degraded the educational experience. And almost all said they aren't certain online learning will be more widely adopted. Among the obstacles are that online courses take more time and effort to prepare, students need more self-discipline and faculty often aren't convinced online learning is worthwhile."
Institutional Policies and Practices Regarding Postsecondary Faculty: Fall 2003
Date CapturedTuesday November 07 2006, 12:32 PM
This NCES report describes recent hiring and retirement patterns as well as tenure-related changes and actions taken by public and private not-for-profit postsecondary institutions that offered an associate’s or higher degree in fall 2003 and participated in federal Title IV student aid programs. Nevill, S.C., and Bradburn, E.M. (2006). Institutional Policies and Practices Regarding Postsecondary Faculty: Fall 2003 (NCES 2007-157). U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved November 7, 2006 from http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch.
Columbia show must-steam TV
Date CapturedTuesday November 07 2006, 4:40 AM
Daily News reports, "Columbia officials said the station has a faculty adviser but is run by students without any oversight from the administration. It is funded by student activity fees. 'The university doesn't censor or edit or monitor what they do,' said a Columbia spokesman."
Hudson Valley Community College will host conference on renewable energy work force education in Troy, N.Y., Nov. 8-9
Date CapturedFriday November 03 2006, 8:44 PM
The Business Review (Albany) reports, "The event is designed to give faculty at technical high schools, community colleges and training programs a chance to learn the best practices and effective approaches to teaching people working in the renewable energy industry."
ROTC debate heats up at Plattsburgh State
Date CapturedFriday November 03 2006, 7:43 AM
Press-Republican reports, "Those who support establishing a Reserve Officer's Training Corps program at the college largely argued that students should be afforded such a choice, no matter the personal feelings of various faculty members and students. Those against ROTC are largely opposed to forming a partnership with the military that could be construed as supporting America's current foreign policy, especially when it is with an organization they perceive as prejudiced against certain groups and one that trains people to kill."
U.S. President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll Includes SUNY Cortland
Date CapturedThursday November 02 2006, 7:12 AM
SUNY Cortland News reports, "The honor roll responds to President George W. Bush’s call to service by building on and supporting the civic engagement mission of the nation’s colleges and universities. 'Institutions of higher education have a long tradition of service to their communities,' said David Eisner, chief executive officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service. 'When colleges organize effective community service programs, they do so not only to meet the needs of the communities that surround them, but to improve the academic and civic lives of their students, faculty and staff.'"
Air Force grants Binghamton U professor $300K
Date CapturedThursday November 02 2006, 6:21 AM
Press & Sun-Bulletin reports, "Craver [professor] plans to use the Air Force funding to develop an automated process to break digital watermarks, in which information is secretly embedded in a file. Watermarks can be used to provide proof of ownership or as copy protection devices. Craver's research will be relevant to any security system that relies on a detection algorithm, including face-recognition and thumbprint recognition systems, university officials said."
Professors' association says female faculty continue to face inequality
Date CapturedTuesday October 31 2006, 8:15 AM
The Daily Texan reports, "The American Association of University Professors released a report Thursday condemning the gender inequality faced by women in higher education institutions, especially in doctoral universities. According to the report, female faculty are underrepresented and underpaid compared to their male colleagues."
Arizona Statue University campus could house nonstudents
Date CapturedTuesday October 31 2006, 7:29 AM
ASU Web Devil reports, "While the American Campus Communities private development is expected to house mostly upperclassmen and graduate students, ACC may open the residence to nonstudents if the building is not fully occupied."
At Gallaudet, Trustees Relent on Leadership
Date CapturedSunday October 29 2006, 11:52 PM
NY Times DIANA JEAN SCHEMO writes, "Surrendering to months of widening and unrelenting protests by students, faculty, alumni and advocates, the board of trustees of Gallaudet University, the nation’s premier university for the deaf, abandoned its choice of the institution’s next president."
COLUMBIA: A DUBIOUS NEIGHBOR
Date CapturedSaturday October 28 2006, 8:24 AM
NY Post opined, "More than three weeks have passed since Columbia University hosted one of the most brazen attacks on free speech and academic freedom in recent memory. Since then, not a word of apology has been offered to those whose rights were trampled, nor an ounce of punishment meted out to the offenders. The only thing, in fact, that Columbia's administrators have done is to assure students, alumni, faculty and others who care deeply about the university that an 'investigation' is under way. But with weeks gone by and a public relations office deflecting calls on the matter, it's starting to look like the term 'investigation' may be a euphemism for 'cover-up.'"
Campus to discuss ROTC chapter at Plattsburgh State
Date CapturedFriday October 27 2006, 8:58 AM
Press Republican reports, "The campus community will gather Nov. 2 to discuss the future of a proposed Reserve Officers Training Corps at Plattsburgh State. The meeting is open only to students and college employees, which has some faculty and community members upset. The media will be allowed to attend the meeting, however, and faculty members concerned about the openness of the matter are hopeful a future meeting will be held that the public can attend. 'Not allowing any outside guests will ensure the most open conversation,' Presiding Faculty Officer Dr. Douglas Skopp said in explaining his decision."
Feds need to keep hands off student records
Date CapturedThursday October 19 2006, 8:28 AM
The majority of the Herald's 10-member board of student editors opined, "There has not been any indication that the information would be used for homeland security purposes - a move that would raise its own ethic al questions. But among the reasons Spellings listed for the database were better ways of notifying students of their eligibility for academic aid and better preparing high school graduates for college. These raise nanny state, not police state, concerns. Students already should be aware of such opportunities. It is the faculty's duty to remind students, and it is the students' duty to take advantage of what they have."
Giving Gallaudet a Bad Name
Date CapturedFriday October 13 2006, 3:59 AM
Washington Post opined, "UNHAPPY WITH Gallaudet University's choice of a new president, students continued their blockade of the campus yesterday. Hundreds of students were being denied their college education. Elementary and high school students also were locked out of their Kendall Green schools, which share the campus. Every lost day of school for them is significant."
CUNY hiring bias alleged
Date CapturedFriday October 06 2006, 4:37 AM
NY Daily News reports, "As Columbus Day approaches, a number of prominent Italian-Americans are expressing concern that the City University of New York has a vendetta against them. Nearly 30 years after that ethnic group was included in CUNY's affirmative action program, Italian-Americans still face discrimination there, according to a university-commissioned report."
Demoting Advanced Placement
Date CapturedWednesday October 04 2006, 3:34 AM
NY Times JOE BERGER writes, "The high school years have been distorted enough by the frenzied rounds of college visits, applications and S.A.T. cram courses. At an evening forum last week to acquaint Scarsdale parents with the faculty proposal, critics of A.P. courses asked: Is our mission to steal a head start on college? Or should we be cultivating habits of mind like tolerance of ambiguity, persistence in the face of setbacks, the ability to work with others on complex problems? Nevertheless, questions from parents signaled some considerable anxiety about dropping a program that has reliably gotten Scarsdale students into top colleges."
September 28, 2006 Press Release - Closure of Taylor Business Institute
Date CapturedFriday September 29 2006, 12:01 AM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, SEPTEMBER 28, 2006: “We identified several areas of consistent non-compliance at Taylor. These areas include inadequate rigor, level and content of coursework that could impact a student’s ability to transfer credits to other degree-granting institutions; inadequate investments in critical educational services, such as faculty, library resources, equipment and support services; rapid turnover of staff and faculty; understaffed student support services; and hiring of staff and faculty who lack requisite skills and experience. In short, the students at Taylor are not receiving the college-level education that they are paying for,” said Johanna Duncan-Poitier, Deputy Commissioner for Higher Education and the Professions. "The State Education Department will directly contact all Taylor students to inform them about the school’s closure and detail all options for continuing their education at other institutions. The Department has arranged a College Transfer Fair for the Taylor students on October 18th from 2-7 p.m. at the CUNY Graduate Center. Representatives of other educational institutions will be there to discuss transfer opportunities. Information and guidance about State and Federal student financial aid will also be provided. “We want the transition to go smoothly so that students will choose to continue their education and graduate,” said Duncan-Poitier. "The Department has also created a page on its Web site for Taylor students."
National Science Foundation (NSF) awards $3.3 million grant to Cornell to bolster the percentage of women faculty members
Date CapturedMonday September 25 2006, 8:50 AM
EurekAlert announces, "Cornell is committed to diversity, gender equality and promoting an environment in which all faculty can achieve their potential in research, education and service. The representation of women faculty in the university's science and engineering departments falls too far below the level of female doctorates produced nationally, according to Cornell administrators."
University of Virginia Curry School of Education Recognized as National Model
Date CapturedMonday September 18 2006, 11:15 PM
Newswise reports, "The Curry School's five-year B.A./M.T. program, the high quality of its students, the balance between theory and practical experience and the reputation of the faculty are among the elements given high marks in the study, which was done by Arthur Levine, former president of Teachers College at Columbia University and now president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation."
Educating School Teachers
Date CapturedMonday September 18 2006, 6:47 PM
Study author Arthur Levine, who recently left the presidency of Teachers College, Columbia University to become president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation concludes "that a majority of teacher education graduates are prepared in university-based programs that suffer from low admission and graduation standards. Their faculties, curriculums and research are disconnected from school practice and practitioners. There are wide variations in program quality, with the majority of teachers prepared in lower quality programs. Both state and accreditation standards for maintaining quality are ineffective."
Cooperstown plans kickoff for new academic targets
Date CapturedMonday September 11 2006, 7:00 AM
Cooperstown Crier reports, "The initiative is designed to push the Cooperstown School District from 'good to great' by 2010, officials said, and has been worked on by committees made up of parents, faculty, staff, administrators, community members and students since February."
The Why Chromosome: How a Teacher's Gender Affects Boys and Girls
Date CapturedTuesday August 29 2006, 9:34 AM
Thomas Dee, associate professor in the Department of Economics at Swarthmore College and a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research writes, "Adverse gender effects have an impact on both boys and girls, but that effect falls more heavily on the male half of the population in middle school, simply because most middleschool teachers are female."
Buffalo State, Historical Society form two-year co-op
Date CapturedSaturday August 19 2006, 2:51 PM
Buffalo News reports, "The collaboration is patterned after similar agreements between Northwestern University and the Chicago History Museum and Rutgers University and the New Jersey Historical Society."
Mainstreaming For-Profit Education? Interesting
Date CapturedSaturday August 19 2006, 8:44 AM
PHI BETA CONS contributor Candace de Russy opined on for-profit/online higher education, "It will also be interesting to watch what UI spends on this program, which by its nature can forgo the usual array of costly non-instructional amenities (climbing walls, etc.) and can exploit the relatively low cost of online instruction. Thus this program can utilize the very finest, but fewer, faculty – a prospect heretofore threatening to the professoriate and the cause of its resistance to this innovation."
RPI and Skidmore among 'New Ivies'
Date CapturedTuesday August 15 2006, 8:20 AM
The Record reports, "The guide uses criteria based on admissions statistics and interviews with administrators, faculty and alumni. The categorization signifies the respective schools competitive status as rivaling Ivy League colleges."
SUNY Albany loses a beloved leader -- Kermit L. Hall, President
Date CapturedMonday August 14 2006, 9:01 AM
Times Union reflects on the death of Kermit Hall, "'Kermit Hall was a distinguished scholar and mentor to students and faculty alike who, as president for far too short a time, made enormous contributions to the academic advances of the University at Albany,' SUNY Chancellor John Ryan said in a statement."
For Lack of Teachers, Students Are Turned Away From Nursing
Date CapturedSunday August 13 2006, 11:44 AM
NY Times reports on the nursing profession, "The National League for Nursing reported a 16 percent increase in applicants to bachelor’s degree nursing programs and a 28 percent increase in applicants to associate degree programs last year, compared with the year before. Yet nursing schools turned away almost 150,000 qualified applicants in 2005 — up 18 percent over the previous year. The reason? They don’t have enough teachers."
Excelsior College launches teaching program in nursing
Date CapturedFriday August 11 2006, 3:35 PM
The Business Review (Albany) announces, "The program, a Master of Science in nursing with a specialization in Nursing Education, is intended to help address the nationwide shortage of nursing faculty, a factor often cited by nursing schools for their inability to accept students into nursing programs."
Profs, funds added to Westchester Community College budget to attract students
Date CapturedTuesday August 08 2006, 9:32 AM
THE JOURNAL NEWS reports, "To help attract and retain students and to increase the full-time faculty, the Westchester legislature's budget committee added $161,000 to next year's spending plan for Westchester Community College yesterday."
The teacher becomes the student in Oregon
Date CapturedTuesday August 08 2006, 1:02 AM
The Gazette-Times reports, "The K-12 teachers take mathematics and leadership courses, attend study halls and even do homework each night. They are taught by faculty from universities across Oregon, and they learn how to be active students, how to facilitate learning among instructors in their districts who didn’t attend the institute, and how to bring their learning into their classrooms."
Changes in Staff Distribution and Salaries of Full-time Employees in Postsecondary Institutions:
Date CapturedThursday August 03 2006, 8:26 AM
This NCES study examines the changes that occurred between fall 1993 and fall 2003 in the distribution of staff and average salaries of all full-time staff— faculty, administrators, and support personnel—at postsecondary institutions. Li, X. (2006). Changes in Staff Distribution and Salaries of Full-time Employees in Postsecondary Institutions: 1993–2003 (NCES 2006-152). U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.
Nazareth Appoints First Dean of School of Education
Date CapturedTuesday August 01 2006, 1:26 PM
Nazareth College announces, "Nazareth College is pleased to announce that Timothy Glander has been appointed to the new position of Dean of the School of Education. Glander returns to Nazareth College after having been a faculty member from 1990-1999."
Indiana U to help prep students for a college curriculum
Date CapturedTuesday August 01 2006, 8:47 AM
Journal Gazette reports, "The center will use 'best practices' to help teachers who instruct preschoolers through 12th-grade students. At Decatur Middle School in Indianapolis, teachers and administrators have spent five years working with IU faculty to improve the township’s high school dropout rate."
NO FREE SPEECH FOR SUNY PROFS?
Date CapturedTuesday August 01 2006, 8:02 AM
NY Post op-ed contributors Greg Lukianoff and Robert L. Shibley of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) write, "As the Supreme Court wrote in the landmark opinion of Sweezy v. New Hampshire (1957), 'The essentiality of freedom in the community of American universities is almost self-evident. No one should underestimate the vital role in a democracy that is played by those who guide and train our youth. To impose any straitjacket upon the intellectual leaders in our colleges and universities would imperil the future of our nation.'"
Professor claims criticizing policies cost him a promotion
Date CapturedFriday July 28 2006, 7:46 PM
Buffalo News reports, "A Fredonia State College instructor said he is being denied a promotion for speaking out against campus policies in the media."
23 local schools miss federal standard for teacher quality
Date CapturedFriday July 28 2006, 7:38 AM
The Journal News reports, "The schools — from urban districts such as Yonkers and Mount Vernon to the suburban communities of Pleasantville and Clarkstown — had less than 90 percent of their core classes taught by highly qualified teachers, or faculty who are experts in their subject areas, in 2004-05, the latest year for which data is available. The No Child Left Behind law requires that all children be taught by highly qualified teachers — someone who holds at least a bachelor's degree, is certified by the state and demonstrates competence in the areas taught."
Community can eliminate achievement gap
Date CapturedFriday July 21 2006, 8:32 AM
Ithaca Journal guest columnist Eldred Harris writes, "The Village has built strategic partnerships with existing local programs while filling a few key gaps in services necessary to achieve our goals. It's been a joy working with some of Ithaca's brightest and most dedicated youth, public service professionals, K-12 teachers and administrators, business leaders, ministers, moms, police officers, area college and university faculty and administrators, local and statewide elected officials, as well as countless other community volunteers to accomplish this important work —proving the adage that it does indeed take a Village to raise, affirm and educate a child!"
U Albany courts connections to Chinese counterparts
Date CapturedWednesday July 19 2006, 9:16 AM
Albany Times Union reports, "U Albany is in the final stages of developing a "full-scale academic and entrepreneurial agreement" with East China Normal, Nanjing, Fudan and Sichuan universities, according to Hall. East China Normal signed an agreement with Albany on May 11 for an exchange program for students, faculty and research ideas."
Overview of the 229th Legislative Session
Date CapturedSunday July 16 2006, 8:24 AM
NY Times (registration) reports, "Under significant political pressure from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, lawmakers agreed to borrow $11.2 billion for construction of New York City schools."
Special report: Are professors too liberal?
Date CapturedTuesday July 11 2006, 9:36 PM
Statepress.com (Arizona) special report, "In recent years, professors in places like Colorado, Ohio, Virginia, Pennsylvania and South Dakota have been accused of spouting leftist agendas in their classrooms and more and more, state legislatures are taking note."
Protect your passwords; University-level ID theft raises concerns at Arizona State U.
Date CapturedFriday July 07 2006, 12:25 AM
statepress.com reports, "A recent increase in computer security breaches at universities nationwide has led to concerns that computer hackers may be attempting to obtain personal information, such as social security numbers of students, faculty and alumni to be used for identity theft."
Schenectady County Community College presents annual awards to faculty members
Date CapturedTuesday June 27 2006, 7:38 AM
Times Union
Merit raises common for Louisiana higher education
Date CapturedSaturday June 24 2006, 9:26 AM
Law schools may have to show diversity for accreditation
Date CapturedTuesday June 20 2006, 8:58 AM
Holding Colleges and Universities Accountable for Meeting State Needs
Date CapturedSaturday June 10 2006, 9:57 AM
By Alicia A. Diaz, Joan Lord and Joseph L. Marks. This report, a part of the Challenge to Lead education goals series, looks at states' annual reports for higher education accountability and recommends that states develop public agendas for higher education. It also describes states' progress on key indicators: higher education graduation rates, faculty salaries, and science and research funding. SREB states have improved, but work remains to be done.
Evaluations to stay private for now
Date CapturedThursday June 08 2006, 7:29 AM
College Faculty Testify on Academic Freedom Legislation
Date CapturedThursday June 01 2006, 10:29 AM
Thesis contradicts previous research on classroom sexism
Date CapturedWednesday May 31 2006, 8:51 AM
The New School Commencement Protest: A Faculty Member's View
Date CapturedThursday May 25 2006, 4:02 PM
U of Minnesota names dean of new College of Education and Human Development
Date CapturedThursday May 18 2006, 7:58 PM
College faculty and staff earn SUNY award
Date CapturedWednesday May 17 2006, 8:52 AM
Susan Fuhrman, dean of Penn's Graduate School of Education to become president of Columbia University's Teachers College
Date CapturedFriday May 05 2006, 12:39 AM
Former New York City School Board President Praises Educational Initiatives
Date CapturedWednesday April 26 2006, 11:05 PM
Half the lesson is missing if colleges lack conservatives
Date CapturedWednesday April 26 2006, 7:09 AM
Harvard, MIT professor pay tops local peers
Date CapturedMonday April 24 2006, 9:24 PM
The Devaluing of Higher Education
Date CapturedMonday April 24 2006, 1:58 PM
The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession 2005-06. Faculty compensation data were collected, compiled, and tabulated by the AAUP Research Office
Inequities Persist for Women and Non-Tenure-Track Faculty
Date CapturedMonday April 24 2006, 7:00 AM
read The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession 2005-06 on education new york online, EDUCATION POLICY link, FACULTY folder.
AERA Meeting Features Teacher's College Faculty and Student Research
Date CapturedSunday April 09 2006, 3:18 PM
Time to expose faculty corruption in college sports
Date CapturedSunday April 02 2006, 11:44 AM



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