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Library NOT Heart of University, Survey Shows:
“Every faculty member here knows students’ papers are already just swaths of text cut and pasted from shit sites they found on Jackpot strung together with their own pathetic run-on sentences. Faculty apathy and grade inflation are the only things keeping students’ GPAs and campus retention from plummeting through the floor and our funding from going with them. Without a library for faculty at least to conduct their research all bets are off!” The Library Association of North America (LANA) has issued a terse response to both the NCUP’s report and developments at Wilburn: “Looks like the party’s over.”
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The party is over for libraries? i’d say it ended years ago, prolly in the reagan era. the library is still a necessity, but I don’t think it is a heart…. the heat of a university is the total environment for learning that it provides. not the classroom, not the library, not the lounges, but the whole and how it is architected in passing to encourage learning.

Take Back Your Time:
TAKE BACK YOUR TIME is a major U.S./Canadian initiative to challenge the epidemic of overwork, over-scheduling and time famine that now threatens our health, our families and relationships, our communities and our environment.

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I missed take back your time day.

Want a lesson on what can happen when you anger the blogosphere? (and you happen to steal pictures):
Unbelievable right? It gets worse. After the 441 comments are posted to Kris’s blog post about this, then it takes off on Kris’s flickr site – where people start to discover that the thief had stolen almost every photo on his web site. The poor schmuck eventually apologizes and admits his wrong-doing after one of the absolute worst web-based pummelings I have EVER seen.
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web based pummeling…. A new concept?

Welcome to the Bottom Half:
In terms of retention and graduation rates, American colleges and universities are now in the bottom half of all higher education institutions in the developed world. According to a New York Times story and editorial, the U.S. is now 16th out of 27 countries.
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yep… but how do you resolve it.

about gng
| global nomads group:
Using interactive technologies such as videoconferencing, GNG brings young people together face-to-face to meet across cultural and national boundaries to discuss their differences & similarities, and the world issues that affect them.

Global Nomads Group programs aim to:

Increase young people’s knowledge of the world and its people

Increase collaboration and dialogue between students of different cultures and nationalities

Highlight critical world issues ranging from HIV/AIDS to global warming, to war

Provide an educational framework in which students can become active leaders in their own education

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This is a great idea…

Nine Shift : Education: The Gallaudet protests :
The issue is also about the biggest educational struggle in this early century: the switch from making every student “normal” to understanding that every student is not normal, in other words, unique.

And once again bloggers kept the issue alive. Bloggers, those journalist advocates for a niche, a slice of people. One of the leading deaf bloggers is Ricky D. Taylor, or Ridor, at RidorLive.com.

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non-normality is the key to actually understanding and structuring learning these days.

Frequently Asked Questions – Men Make Dinner Day:
Q.Is there a NATIONAL MEN MAKE DINNER DAY parade?

A.Not yet.

Clifford Geertz – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Clifford James Geertz (born August 23, 1926 in San Francisco, died October 30, 2006) was an American anthropologist and served until his death as professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey.

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Clifford Geertz passed away. I first saw it at savage minds

2:15 sl time. reuters sim in second life is occupied by…. hank voodoo and buridan simon… otherwise… it is a wasteland on a sunday afternoon. This brings into question many thing…. temporality and immediacy of media… to start with, but markets and identity on a second level. It just makes me wonder.