State Farm Business Camp coming this summer
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State Farm and the Business Education Partnership and Destination Rutherford of the Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce announce the seventh year of the State Farm Summer Business Camp for middle school students.
This two-week day camp will be held July 7-18 and will be hosted at local organizations and businesses. During the camp, students learn business [...]
Study Shows Comprehensive Sex Education Reduces Teen Pregnancy
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A new study by researchers at the University of Washington found that students who receive comprehensive sex education are half as likely to become teen parents as those who receive abstinence-only sex education. According to the Seattle Times, this study marks the first time researchers have compared comprehensive sex education and abstinence-only education in a [...]
Peabody’s John Braxton named editor of top higher
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Vanderbilt Peabody College’s John M. Braxton has been appointed editor of the Journal of College Student Development. The journal is one of the leaders in the field of higher education research.
Braxton’s five-year term as the journal’s editor will begin August 1, 2008.
The Journal of College Student Development specializes in articles focused on college student growth [...]
Get Another Life
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The academic life, at least according to popular culture, is one of leisure and banter interspersed with a few hours of off-the-cuff teaching. Remember the character named Gary on the late-1980’s television show thirtysomething? He was an assistant professor of English literature with a large, beautiful office. Research, teaching, and service were invisible components of [...]
We Don’t Live by Spreadsheets
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Fund raisers love data. We’re awash in it. Give us reams of names, numbers, lists, transactions, benchmarks, charts, and graphs. We use Access to excess and excel at Excel. And we kill more trees than annosus root rot.
Not surprisingly, the higher-education market is clogged with companies willing and eager to satisfy our data fix. Their [...]
An Enlightening Trip to the Countryside
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I have an advantage working as the vice president for government relations at a large state university. Actually, four advantages. I have an ego-enhancing high profile in my local community and among a certain group of people at the state level. I have access to a number of pots of money that can be used [...]
‘In Loco Parentis’ Revisited
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On February 5, a tornado carved a deep gash across the aorta of our campus: the dormitory complex. Along with the university’s president, David Dockery, and another dean, I was among the first administrators to arrive at the disaster, a mere two minutes following the direct hit.
We stopped first at the men’s dorms. Nothing could [...]
Teaching, and Learning, Racial Sensitivity
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A few years back, a faculty colleague, after expressing concern that his puppies would develop racist tendencies for lack of exposure to minorities, asked if he could bring the dogs to my house to play with my two sons, ages 1 and 3. My children — like their parents and unlike most everyone else at [...]
Lake County schools consider sales tax for education
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Millburn Community School District 24 backed the plan in January. In Ingleside, Big Hollow School District 38’s board members plan to vote on the proposal next month. Others from Antioch to Deerfield have taken a wait-and-see approach. The proposal takes advantage of a [...]
Aurora school investigated over state testing
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Muhammad would not elaborate on the allegations, other than to say that the school principal had been placed on paid leave while the investigation is being conducted.
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