Archive for May, 2011

More resourceful, empathetic: Faculty, staff recall Peace Corps benefits

      PULLMAN, Wash. – Fresh out of college, horticulture degree in hand, Wayne Shull was gung-ho, and wanted to solve the worlds food problems. Gary Collins found himself energized by John F. Kennedys call to action: ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. [...]

Do Today’s Grads Have a ‘Sense of Entitlement’?

In a Wall Street Journal commentary piece titled Dont Wear Flip-Flops to the Interview, career counselor Adam Friedman writes that parents ought to do a better job of prepping their children for the job search, including such basics as how to dress and behave: What is surprising is that most parents spend thousands of dollars [...]

E-mail leaks reveal Valley charter’s SA plans

The IDEA Public Schools charter network, which operates eight campuses in the Rio Grande Valley with two more set to open in the fall, has its eye on a San Antonio expansion. “All signs point to San Antonio right now,” IDEA founder and CEO Tom Torkelson told The Monitor, the newspaper based in McAllen. The possible [...]

Campus closed May 30 in observance of Memorial Day

Claremont Graduate University will be closed on Monday, May 30, in observance of the Memorial Day holiday. Business will resume on Tuesday, May 31. All university labs will be unavailable on Monday, except for the Academic Computing Building lab, which will remain open from 8:30 am to midnight. There will be a limited number of [...]

USC will be watching to see how Ohio State fares

About the only thing the NCAA didn’t do when it slammed Southern California’s football program with penalties was ban Traveler, the Trojan horse, from the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. That might still happen if those connected to USC and the Pac-12 Conference don’t tone down their rhetoric a bit. After the NCAA rejected the university’s [...]