09.21.10 | posted by Joe Hice |
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08.18.10 | posted by Joe Hice |
Circus dogs for all to see! This is gonna be big.
The 19th Annual Dog Olympics to be held at Moore Square in downtown Raleigh on Sept. 11. This family/community event keeps getting better and has been expanded for 2010 based on the response to holding it at Moore Square last year. The Terry Center construction continues to prohibit holding the Olympics at the NC State CVM.
This is a great campus/city event and the City of Raleigh is pleased with the community response and glad to provide the venue.
Here’s a link for more information: http://www.cvm.ncsu.edu/news/2010-08-16-Mark-Your-Calendar-Dog-Olympics-Sept.11.html and a link to the official Dog Olympics site: http://www.cvmdogolympics.com/
Passion Rules! Pups too.
08.02.10 | posted by Joe Hice |
Provosts at convention hear it’s time for change. Reported by Inside Higher Education
August 2, 2010
By Doug Lederman/Inside Higher Education.com
CHICAGO — Like many advocacy groups, higher education associations are notoriously self-referential (if not self-reverential). They’re quick to promote the good work of their own members, but are typically loath to draw attention to institutions with which they compete.
Which made it all the more striking when George L. Mehaffy, a vice president of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, opened a meeting of provosts here late last week by projecting on the video screen overhead the bold commercial that Kaplan University has used to promote itself — in large part by not-so-subtly dissing traditional colleges and universities like those that belong to AASCU (“It’s time for a different kind of university,” the professor at the lectern tells students apologetically. “It’s your time.”)
“It is our time,” Mehaffy told the public university provosts when the commercial ended, “time to get serious about the process of change in American higher education. It is important that we resolve to make substantive changes — major changes, not changes around the margins — and that we do so with a fierce sense of urgency.”
To the chief academic officers in the audience at AASCU’s Academic Affairs summer meeting, virtually all of whom are facing intense budget pressures at the same time that state and national leaders are telling them their campuses need to be more productive and efficient, the idea that something needs to give was not a hard sell.
They also seemed to accept the idea that if significant change was to come from within higher education, rather than be imposed on it from outside, provosts were those best able to bring it about, situated as they are between presidents focused increasingly on fund raising and often distant from the front lines and faculties focused mainly on their disciplines and often wary of, if not hostile to, transformative change. (“Someone has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us,” Mehaffy quoted “that great philosopher,” the Grateful Dead’s late Jerry Garcia, as saying.) (more…)
07.26.10 | posted by Joe Hice |
Dr. Harms, Dean Bristol Participate in Forum Assessing North Carolina’s Oil Spill Preparedness
Dr. Craig Harms and Dean David Bristol of NC State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine are participating in a special forum that will assess North Carolina’s preparedness to respond and recover from an oil spill event. Free and open to the public, the forum will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, July 29, at the UNC Friday Center for Continuing Education in Chapel Hill.
The “One Health Forum on North Carolina Oil Spill Response, Recovery and Health Effects” includes speakers from state and federal agencies who have expertise in public health, marine science, emergency management, and natural resources. Discussion will focus on the state’s strengths, the required coordination and collaboration among organizations, the training and use of volunteers, and areas that need additional coverage and management.
Dean Bristol and Dean Barbara Rimer of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health will open the forum and welcome participants at 9 a.m. (more…)
07.22.10 | posted by Joe Hice |
Young Alumni feel they have already given enough
By Daniel de Vise/Washingtonpost.com
Young alumni of the nation’s top universities are not particularly interested in opening their checkbooks for their alma mater, according to a new survey.
Interviews with alumni from the nation’s top 100 universities, as defined by the U.S. News & World Report rankings, found that eight in 10 young alumni — those under 35 — feel they have already given enough in tuition payments and don’t see the need for further donations.
Half of the young alumni believe their school doesn’t especially need the money. Nearly half say their alma mater hasn’t made enough of an effort to “connect with them” apart from asking for money, according to a release.
The survey was released Monday by Engagement Strategies Group, a research and consulting firm based in the District of Columbia. (more…)
07.15.10 | posted by Joe Hice |
NC State Increases 2010-11 Tuition
North Carolina State University will increase tuition by an additional $750 for the 2010-11 academic year to help offset state budget cuts of almost $20 million.
The university had raised tuition by $150 for in-state undergraduate students and $200 for all other students. The total tuition increase will be $900 for in-state undergraduates and $950 for all other students.
“The need is immediate and the options are few,” NC State Chancellor Randy Woodson said. “This is the second consecutive year of deep budget cuts. With generous state support, North Carolina universities have historically held their tuition as low as possible while providing a quality education. But low tuition without quality is no bargain and without this tuition increase, academic quality will continue to erode.”
The new state budget takes $99 million from universities. In the last three years, the state’s universities have taken a budget cut of $575 million. This year, the state legislature gave universities the option of raising tuition by as much as $750. Budget projections indicate NCState could lose up to 200 course sections and 6,500 classroom seats without the tuition increase.
“At some point, we have to stop the erosion or risk long-term damage to one of the state’s greatest assets: its higher education system,” Woodson said. “But even a tuition increase of this size is no silver bullet. NC State will still see about a $3 million shortfall.” NC State will use the tuition increase to restore some of the classroom seats and course sections lost in recent budget cuts, and support faculty and research that have consistently contributed to North Carolina’s economic development, the chancellor said. Consistent with its historical mission, NC State will set aside 20 percent of the tuition increase to support need-based financial aid.
“Our promise is to continue to protect the academic core and do all we can to ensure students have the opportunity to make steady progress toward graduation,” Woodson said. (more…)
04.24.10 | posted by Joe Hice |
NC Museum of Art is Open!
The artists of the future will make up new things and different nomenclatures and they’ll stand amongst their pictures and they’ll sing and laugh and quote from scriptures and when they go home they’ll dream of brilliant paintings.
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04.19.10 | posted by Joe Hice |
Bulletin and Abstract tweaks
Our News Services Group has been hard at work tweaking the Bulletin and our new science blog, Abstract, and I thought everyone would be interested in some of the changes. Here are a few comments from Keith Nichols about what’s happening with Bulletin and Abstract.
We made a couple of changes last week that give us new ways to reach our audiences. And before going any further, thanks to the web team for the technical and design help.
The biggest change is that the Bulletin now has a real home, which will allow us to update the site daily. It also gives us some additional flexibility and options in our story treatments. This is new enough to us that we’re still working out some processes – like what happens to the idea of our weekly email outreach to faculty and staff alerting them to the newest edition. Your suggestions on that point are welcome, as are story ideas.
Here’s a more detailed report from David Hunt (David and D’Lyn Ford are our e-newsletters editors:) (more…)
04.14.10 | posted by Joe Hice |
The absurdity of anonymous comments and fictitious sources
I get my share of anonymous comments on the HiceSchool blog and they really don’t bother me. They tend to be at least somewhat informed and contribute to the discussion. I’ve noticed that a number of other real “news outlets” receive far more outrageous comments on their message boards. Check out the comment section following many N&O stories and you’ll know what I mean.
It has gotten so bad that some publications are talking about requiring registration and no longer allowing anonymous comments.
The other thing that gripes me is the “fictitious” source. You know, the friend of a friend of a friend that some bloggers use to promote their view of a particular issue…and they always support the viewpoint of the blog. Fortunately fake sources are generally contained to the blogosphere and don’t appear in the formal news media.
A friend with Curley & Pynn communications in Orlando provides his thoughts on anonymous sources in the following contribution. Right on Dan.
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