03.08.11 | Posted in 1 of Many | No Comments
Clay Christensen was in town a few weeks back for the Emerging Issues Forum. During his presentation he talked about how “disrputive innovation” would change the face of the health care industry. Christensen has turned his thinking to higher education and in this post from InsideHigherEd.com, he talks about how disruptive innovation will change higher education. A fascinating read. http://bit.ly/hHiTIt
WASHINGTON — It’s one thing for Clayton M. Christensen to share with a bunch of Washington think tankers his warnings that colleges must change or die, as he did at the American Enterprise Institute last month. But directly to the faces of college presidents themselves, at the annual gathering of their main national association? Yet there was the Harvard Business School professor known for documenting how industries get transformed by “disruptive technologies” on Monday, telling hundreds of college chiefs at the annual meeting of the American Council on Education that he was not at all sure in 20 years if their institutions would still be around.
Some of Christensen’s ideas (drawn from a paper he co-wrote with Henry Eyring of Brigham Young University-Idaho called “The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education”) and comments may have stung, notably his prediction that distance education, done well, can subject existing higher education to disruption that could render many existing institutions irrelevant in two decades. “There is good reason for many of us to think that we might be okay in 20 years. But I think we might be wrong,” he said.
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03.04.11 | Posted in 1 of Many | No Comments
From my cousin, Deane Broome: Today is the the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s first inauguration. The last words of his inaugural address:
“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
I’m almost embarrassed to say it with Abe’s presence so close by, and his passion for America still so palpable today, but . . .
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03.03.11 | Posted in 1 of Many | No Comments
Many college students want commencement speakers who are famous and some new student groups and Facebook pages suggest any kind of fame will do. George Washington University already has a commencement speaker for this year (New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg). But students at the university have started a campaign to get Charlie Sheen as the 2012 commencement speaker, attracting considerable support on Facebook and Twitter (typical comment: “I don’t want some stiff-ass politician boring me to death as I graduate”).
The GW Hatchet, the student newspaper, has declared the movement “a satirical ploy.”
But the idea may be spreading. Other Facebook pages want Sheen to speak at commencement at the University of Georgia, the University of Missouri at Columbia and West Chester University in Pennsylvania.
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03.02.11 | Posted in Updates | No Comments
The NC State draft strategic plan is now available for campus review. A pdf version of the document is attached to this e-mail and the document may also be accessed at http://info.ncsu.edu/strategic-planning/draft-plan/.
We welcome and encourage your comments and advice on the draft strategic plan – please use the form available on the strategic planning website at http://info.ncsu.edu/strategic-planning/feedback/. Please provide constructive feedback to help us improve the document. All comments received by 3/25/11 will be considered.
After this plan has been approved, we will establish clear targets for each measure of accountability so that we can monitor our progress toward its implementation. We will set those targets in light of past trends, best practices, and comparisons with our peers.
Thank you for your continued involvement in the strategic planning process.
Sincerely,
Provost Warwick Arden and Dr. Margery Overton
Co-chairs of the Strategic Planning Committee
02.24.11 | Posted in Updates | No Comments
NC State ranks #9 on this year’s Best Value list, based on a number of factors, including cost of attendance, financial aid availability, and academic quality.
www.suite101.com
On February 22, 2011, the Princeton Review and USA Today published the list of Best Value Public Schools and Best Value Private Schools.
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02.24.11 | Posted in Updates | No Comments
With the all the concerns over budget issues throughout higher education, I was surprised to read the report on job openings. Apparently we’re having a boom!
Advertised job openings in higher education surged 44.4 percent in 2010 compared to a decline of 27.2 percent in 2009, according to the newly released Higher Education Employment Report from HigherEdJobs.
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02.23.11 | Posted in 1 of Many | No Comments
Leading attorneys in the U.S. now charge as much as $1,250 an hour. See a ranking of the top billers: http://on.wsj.com/gEmvYj
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02.21.11 | Posted in 1 of Many | No Comments
Thank the Wolfpack for the snack most of us enjoy on airlines, the honey-roasted peanut. Yep, the sweet legume was invented by NC State researcher Bill Hoover. Read more at the News & Observer.com.
BY JOSH SHAFFER – STAFF WRITER
RALEIGH — Bill Hoover played with food.
For most of his 94 years, he lorded over bubbling beakers in his basement lab, dabbling in cocktail sauce, fiddling with cheese spread, burrowing to the essence of sweet potatoes. Over his long career, most of it at N.C. State University, you could taste Hoover’s work in Carolina Treet barbecue sauce or any number of three-bean salads.
But Hoover, who died in Georgia this month, deserves a golden-brown monument on the National Mall for his greatest invention, a treat nibbled by many a coach-seated air traveler: the honey-roasted peanut.
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02.18.11 | Posted in 1 of Many | No Comments
By Anton Zuiker
We’re delighted to announce that ScienceOnline2012, the sixth annual NC science blogging (and more) conference, will take place Jan. 19-21, 2012 at the McKimmon Conference & Training Center of North Carolina State University. The countdown is on at ScienceOnline2012.com.
Special thanks to Matt Shipman and Keith Nichols at NC State for helping to arrange this new venue for the conference, which will give us plenty of space to grow and allow more scientists, educators, students, bloggers and journalists to attend.
No matter how big we grow, though, know that we’ll keep true to the character of this conference, finding creative ways to facilitate connections that lead to conversations, conversations that lead to networks, networks that support communities, all in the name of promoting science and our understanding of the worlds around us.
In the coming weeks, we’ll put out a call for volunteers to help us plan ScienceOnline2012. Get your creative juices flowing, add them to the wiki, write your own blog entries about what would make ScienceOnline2012 the best conference ever, and tell your friends that Raleigh, NC in January is the place to be for a darn good time.
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02.17.11 | Posted in Updates | No Comments
UNC President Tom Ross today issued the following statement on Governor Beverly Perdue’s proposed 2011-13 state budget:
Given the economic climate and the size of the projected revenue shortfall, Governor Perdue had to make some very difficult decisions in order to balance her proposed state budget. All of us in the University appreciate the challenges she faced and are grateful that she identifies potential ways to avoid even more severe cuts that certainly would cause permanent damage to our institutions. We are particularly thankful that she recognizes the critical importance of our enrollment growth funding and need-based financial aid, although those needs would be only partially met, as well as operating reserves for new buildings. In addition, revenues from tuition increases would stay on the campuses to provide more need-based financial aid and help reduce the impact of proposed budget cuts.
As our state struggles to work its way out of this recession, affordable access to higher education has never been more important to North Carolina’s economic recovery and long-term competitiveness. That’s why I am deeply concerned that additional cuts of the magnitude proposed would place academic programs across the University in jeopardy and require the loss of more than 1,500 jobs. With fewer faculty, staff, and course sections, many more students would not be able to obtain the courses and academic services they need to graduate on time.
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Joe Hice, APR, CPRC, MA, MBA Tampa, FL.
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