Archive for October, 2010

‘A lonely place in 1990′: Pioneers of distance education to retire

  By Richard H. Miller/Center for Distance and Professional Education   A pioneer in distance education is retiring after 23 years at WSU.   Ive never come to work not being excited about what the day is going to bring, said Janet Ross Kendall, director of academic programs at WSU Online. Its been so fun [...]

Young runners move quickly to the head of the pack in cross country

American Heritage-Plantation coach Kent Baker knew his new runner was special after he Googled her. Daesha Rogers has been setting age-group national records for years, well documented on the Internet. She is 11. The Patriots sixth-grader is the best of a sizeable group of very young runners, mostly girls, in Broward and Palm Beach counties [...]

Study Finds Underrepresented Minority Graduate Students Not Just Interested in Being University Professors

Elizabeth Cox, assistant director California Community College Collaborative (C4) RIVERSIDE, Calif. () – University faculty and academic administrators must consider the differing needs of underrepresented minority graduate students to attract them into academic careers, according to a recent report sponsored by the California Community College Collaborative (C4) at the University of California, Riverside. The report [...]

Arianna Huffington advocates for the middle class at Drucker Business Forum

  Arianna Huffington, co-founder of the Huffington Post, believes the United States is on track to become a third world country if it does not quickly repair its broken economic and political structures. That’s the message she brought to a capacity crowd at Claremont Graduate University’s Drucker Business Forum on Oct. 21. During an hour-long [...]

I Do Not Talk to the Grass

It is hard for young adults to decide what they want to do in life, and even if they have a specific area of interest, they might change their minds. It is especially difficult at Cal Poly, where you must declare a major during admissions since there is no “undeclared” major option. If students choose [...]