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August meeting of the SOCCCD Board of Trustees: "Golly, the climate is improving!" 27 Aug 2013 | 11:40 am
5:30 - Welcome to the August meeting of the SOCCCD Board of Trustees. The meeting hasn't started yet, but it looks like it will commence presently. While I've got a moment, I should mention...
Untitled 26 Aug 2013 | 10:22 am
South County 73rd AD Melee Attracts a Democrat: Prof. Wendy Gabriella, Esq. (OJ Blog) I wish her well.
Well, yeah 25 Aug 2013 | 11:12 pm
Obama Singles Out For-Profit Colleges and Law Schools for Criticism (Chronicle of Higher Education) Excerpt: At some for-profit colleges, students are "loaded down with enormous debt," said Mr....
Making sense of the RG Group's curious report 25 Aug 2013 | 07:35 am
0 0 2013-02-07T23:16:00Z 2013-02-08T18:12:00Z 1 66 377 Irvine Valley College 3 1 442 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE "We believe it is the failure of the field [of ...
The odd bromidular emissions of community college “experts” 24 Aug 2013 | 08:41 am
From "What students say they need." I love my cat Teddy, but sometimes I wonder if I’m doing a good job taking care of the boy. What are his needs? Am I satisfying them? I decided to get s...
In Defense of a Real Education 22 Aug 2013 | 06:38 am
In today's New York Times (Yes, Rebel Girl gets the paper delivered to her canyon doorstep. She's old school, very old school.), Michael Roth (president of Wesleyan University) reviews the new book b...
The real and the unreal 20 Aug 2013 | 04:05 am
Coming soon: bulletproof #2 pencils Last Line of Defense (Inside Higher Ed) U. of Maryland at Eastern Shore's new whiteboards double as bulletproof shields. The $60,000 investment is part of a ...
Dispatches from Greece: cicadas on steroids 19 Aug 2013 | 08:29 am
Photo: Kathie Kathie (philosopher, University of Redlands) is in Athens, Greece, for an international philosophical conference—and some carefree vacationing. Here are her “dispatches” (or ...
Local academic superstar Elizabeth Loftus: remembering what never happened 18 Aug 2013 | 12:07 am
Be sure to check out Moheb Costandi’s brief profile of a local academic superstar: Elizabeth Loftus. It’s in the latest issue of Nature: Evidence-based justice: Corrupted memory (Nature) El...
"Overheard During FLEX Week" OR "The Manufacture of Consent" 17 Aug 2013 | 02:07 am
Monday morning, IVC: the spectacle of someone who is not in the room being introduced to the room as the Shiny New Hire and being told to stand up and recognize the applause. Now, this happens all the...
