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"With No Space on the Ground, Marymount Manhattan College Went Up"

"Republicans warn that we risk liberal tyranny now that the Democrats have won the presidency and increased their majorities in the House and the Senate. They caution that the Democratic sweep threatens to overwhelm the system of checks and balances that the Founders so wisely designed to thwart oppressive majorities."

"Ghassan Shabaneh, a professor of Middle East and international studies at Marymount Manhattan College, speaks with Martin Savidge about America’s future with Israel and Iran, the prospect of Middle East peace and Obama’s credentials in the Arab world."

"Rhodes College, for instance, in Memphis, provides annual travel grants of up to $5,000, which have led to new courses on Bollywood and on the Holocaust, says Michael Drompp, dean of the faculty and vice president for academic affairs."

"Critics say the current crisis exposes a flawed system. ‘There is an enormous gap in compensation between a Wall Street executive and a regular American,’ says David Friedrichs, law professor at the University of Scranton. ‘At the higher end, compensation has expanded exponentially with little evidence that it's warranted and sometimes to catastrophic effects like it has currently.’

"Many observers, including most politicians, have blamed the ongoing financial crisis on the ‘free-market greed’ supposedly unleashed by the ‘reckless deregulation’ of the financial system. Such arguments are rhetorically powerful, but they don't stand up to scrutiny."

A team of 15 students from Champlain College in Burlington, Vt., was hired to work on the project with the school’s Emergent Media Center. The students include art and marketing majors as well as programmers and electronic game designers.

Along with faculty supervisors, they recently traveled to Cape Town to better understand what kind of game scenarios might help young people challenge the patterns that lead to abuse. They surveyed and interviewed teens on how they spend free time, what technology they use, and how they view gender and violence.

"Late August can be a trying time for college administrators. It is when US News & World Report, the late-summer elephant on campus, publishes its rankings, and officials at not-so-highly ranked schools have to offer explanations to their constituents. Even if you work at a top-50 college such as mine, folks still want to know why we can't be ranked even higher."

"And at Sarah Lawrence College, all students have access to cooking facilities in common areas of residence halls. ‘In the interests of sustainability, we discourage small individual refrigerators as they are huge energy users,’ says Micheal Rengers, vice president of operations."

"The Huntsville Times reported on Sept. 12 that in response to the looming threat from Hurricane Ike, Alabama Gov. Bob Riley declared a formal state of emergency.

"The governor's declaration activated the state's price-gouging law, which makes ‘unconscionable pricing’ illegal during times of emergency. The Times quoted Riley as saying that he thinks ‘a threat to public health is a strong possibility due to the shortage of fuels.’ Hurricanes don't cause shortages, however. Price controls like the one in effect in Alabama do."

If you want to stay on the tenure track but want a more even distribution of research and teaching, consider a position at a small college, where teaching is considered more heavily in tenure decisions. To conduct research in that environment, you may need to find a niche that accommodates less frequent publications.

Drew Cressman, biology professor at Sarah Lawrence College, studies the role of the protein CIITA in the molecular regulation of the immune system. “There’s a small group of us looking at this particular protein, so the chance of getting scooped is a bit less,” he says. Special avenues of funding may be open to such scientists, such as NSF’s Research in Undergraduate Institutions, for investigators who provide significant research experiences for undergraduates.

"Individual teachers try different strategies too. Darby Dyar, chair of astronomy at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, makes students think critically about science by asking them to find a movie or news story that addresses a science topic such as global warming.

Students can benefit when teachers step outside their comfort zones, says Christopher De Pree, associate professor of physics and astronomy at Agnes Scott College. When he found out students in his seminar on "life in the universe" had never heard of Ray Bradbury’s short-story collection The Martian Chronicles, he assigned it even though he wasn’t sure he was ready to teach it.

‘Be willing to give up some of that control and authority for a common space where everyone can contribute, and students feel much more comfortable,’ he says."

"Since Ms. Palin joined the ticket, polls have surged toward the Republicans, in some cases putting the McCain-Palin ticket ahead of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and his vice-presidential nominee, Joe Biden, for the first time.

Nonetheless, ‘it's completely premature,’ to believe the Republicans have the Democrats on the ropes, argued Leonard Champney, a political scientist at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania.

‘We are almost two months from the election, and that's an eternity in politics.’"

Over the next decade, the number of students studying abroad is predicted to grow from 2.7 million to perhaps 10 million. This change will be driven by the world's thirst for highly educated workers and by a severe shortage of higher-education capacity in developing countries.

There is a lot of competition for students interested in studying abroad. China, Japan and South Korea have announced plans to dramatically increase international enrollment. Australian universities, which have enjoyed rapid increases in overseas students over the past decade, still want more. Britain and Canada are easing restrictions on foreign students who wish to stay in the host country after graduation; they realize that bright people in a global knowledge-economy are not only highly valued, but also highly mobile.

Let's not forget the Middle East. While most universities are opening their doors wider for international students, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Saudi Arabia are building universities or partnering with existing ones from America, Singapore and Europe - and they will also welcome students from abroad. The numbers are small now, but the plans are ambitious for creating new hubs for international education in the region.

The U.S. is likely to remain the leading destination for students, partly because the 4,000 accredited colleges and universities there host more than double the number of students hosted by any other nation. But with its market share declining, it is stepping up recruitment efforts and resolving its visa logjams. The next U.S. president should work with America's higher education sector to ensure that the United States remains competitive in this race for global talent.

Allan E. Goodman, New York
President and chief executive, Institute of International Education

"‘I think it is too early for euphoria or elation,’ says Waqas Khwaja, a Pakistani lawyer and English professor at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta. ‘As I see it, all that has happened is that the deck has been cleared for some really long-term, hard work to be done. But is … anyone willing to take on that responsibility? That is a dicey question. I don't think the current leadership is quite up to it.’ He describes that leadership as ‘thoroughly contaminated.’"

"‘We're pretty sure that China can take more, but exactly how many and in what fields and what would it take to double or quadruple the numbers, that's something we as an industry will have to explore,’ said Allan Goodman, president and CEO of IIE, a nonprofit that promotes educational exchange and administers the Fulbright program."

"St. Lawrence University is one of 450 colleges and universities in the U.S. to sign a petition promising to go carbon neutral. Host Bruce Gellerman turns to Louise Gava, the sustainability coordinator, or campus "eco lady," for a course in sustainability 101, and a little help with the back-to-school shopping list."

"To help ease the financial burden for the families of its enrolled students, Rhodes College in Memphis has responded with a variety of approaches including the Rhodes Student Associates Program (RSAP), an innovative program that offers students the chance to work in jobs that reinforce their classroom learning and earn up to $4,500 a year."

"The federal minimum wage will rise to $6.55 an hour on Thursday, the second of three annual 70-cent increases passed by Congress last May. With housing markets collapsing, financial markets in disarray and the economy at a standstill, what may have been a reasonable plan a year ago seems ill-timed today."

"Berea College, founded 150 years ago to educate freed slaves and ‘poor white mountaineers,’ accepts only applicants from low-income families, and it charges no tuition."

"During the summer months, many colleges and universities reach out to middle and high school students who may be arriving late onto the path toward college. KPCC's Adolfo Guzman-Lopez has this story about one Southland private college that's pushing motivated high school girls beyond their expectations."

"Study-abroad trips [are] on the rise to places such as Argentina [and] China, where U.S. currency is stronger...‘There seems to be a steady shift toward locations that are both less expensive and more advantageous to careers,’ said Peggy Blumenthal, chief operating officer for the Institute of International Education."

"Aziz Abu Sarah and Lily Yaffe were recognized with the 2008 Victor J. Goldberg Prize for Peace in [the] Middle East from the Institute of International Education for their work as facilitators of The Parents Circle Family Forum. The fourth annual award, whose recipients share a $10,000 prize, recognizes their success in promoting reconciliation as an alternative to hatred and revenge."

"President and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of International Education Allan Goodman, who led a delegation of US educational managers to Hanoi, said they were proud to be a bridge linking US school managers with the Vietnamese Government and school managers in Vietnam."

"An important hurdle to taking advantage of discoveries in the field of genetic medicine has been surmounted with the recent passage of the Federal Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, which cleared Congress by a combined 509-to-1 vote, and was subsequently signed into law by President Bush. But don't let the appearance of an easy birth fool you - this was a long, arduous gestational process."

"At St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y., where the class of 2008 plans to leave a bicycle garage as its legacy, ‘Any gift is a good start,’ Vice President Michael Archibald says. ‘If we can instill in them the habit of giving now, even for a (specific) project," he says, "their larger, unrestricted gifts will follow down the road.’"

"What might a Black kid from the Bronx have in common with a White kid from Appalachia and a Latino kid from Los Angeles?"

"There is no shortage of associate degree programs online, but private four-year colleges don’t tend to run them. This fall, Tiffin University is trying a new model for an online two-year degree program. The institution, which was founded in 1888, is launching an associate of arts degree in general studies as part of what it calls Ivy Bridge College, an online-only program that targets traditional-aged students who intend to transfer into four-year institutions once they’re done. The program is unusual for being developed at a four-year private college, and also because of who it intends to enroll, and what kind of degree the students will be earning."

"Caroline Lieber, Director of Joan H. Marks Graduate Program in Human Genetics at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, said that while the Human Genome Project was completed and told researchers where the genes are, research is continuing to determine how specific genes interact with each other. The genetics program at Sarah Lawrence College is the oldest and largest of its kind."

"Gayle Greene, a professor of literature and women's studies at Scripps College, Claremont, is the author of ‘Insomniac,’ a first-person account of living with insomnia and an investigation of what is known about the disorder."

"When his family landed in Vermont three years ago, Rwandan refugee Jean-Luc Dushime didn't speak English. Now, he's in college – on a full scholarship – and has his sights set on graduate school.

‘Champlain College was the only school that gave me a full scholarship and was the only school interested to know me as a person,’ the 27-year-old sophomore said."

"About five years ago at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y., chaplain Kathleen Buckley helped organize an eight-week course in which students would be encouraged, in a secular classroom setting, to think about their own theology. Modeled after a curriculum of the Unitarian Universalist Church, the class, ‘Build Your Own Beliefs,’ is consistently popular."

"When Champlain College president David Finney saw a documentary about the challenges that refugees face in the United States, he thought of the displaced people who had landed in his own community. With Burlington, Vermont designated as a refugee resettlement city, ‘it was a short leap to think "We can really make a difference,"’ he says."

"While the 15th Amendment ensured black men the right to vote in 1870, women of all colors had to wait 50 more years. The suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton and freedom fighter Frederick Douglass toiled together to help end slavery, but bitterly disagreed on the question of voting rights.

‘The two movements over the decades have been in harmony more than in tension. But these issues are complex and can come down to very hard, stark choices,’ said Charles McKinney Jr., history professor at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn.

‘A public (and media) that too often divides "minority causes" and "women’s issues" into separate categories can aggravate the discourse over basic human rights,’ he said."

"Other colleges place a very high value on community service and are specifically looking for compassionate individuals. They even offer service scholarships. David Wottle, dean of admissions and financial aid at Rhodes College in Memphis," says the school looks for applicants who are strongly committed to volunteerism; its Bonner Scholarship rewards such students.

‘We’re after the students who have gone beyond (what is required) and have incorporated community service into their personality,’ Wottle says. ‘We can also see this in their essays or letters of recommendation from teachers or counselors.’"

"A company called 23 and Me will introduce a direct-to-consumer genetic testing service for Europeans. It’s already available here in the United States. Send them $999 and a swab of saliva, six weeks later you get some pretty detailed analysis of your DNA. But might that be the very definition of too much information? The majority of people don't have any real background in genetics and how to even interpret that information according to Caroline Lieber, Director of the Human Genetics Program at Sarah Lawrence College. She says the problem with direct-to-consumer genetics tests is that the results may confuse."

"‘Allowing freshman students – who in most cases have never lived away from home – to study abroad comes with risks," college officials say. ‘;There’s the issue of maturity and having the coping skills and the resources,’ says Valerie Eastman, director of off-campus study at Scripps College, a private liberal-arts school for women in Claremont, California, that doesn’t offer the program for freshmn."

"By contrast, Kerry Odell, a Scripps College economist from Upland, California, doesn’t belong to a faith community or believe in God, though she says she is open to the prospect. She has been on a search for meaning since she turned 40 nine years ago and began asking deeper questions. She makes it a point to reflect and feel grateful when she walks with her dog, Finn, but she also makes sure to stay close with a community of friends."

"A study by St. Lawrence University Associate Professor of Psychology Pamela Thacher, showing that pulling all-nighters does not help students achieve higher grades, was featured in a national Associated Press story on December 14, which resulted in 248 news Web sites from around the world carrying the story. Among them: CBS News Radio, MSNBC, Fox News, CBS News, CNN/Time, USA Today, New York Times.com, NPR, The Weekend Today Show, Inside Higher Education, The Wall Street Journal, The Hartford Courant and regional TV and radio newscasts across the nation. The story was among the 10 most-e-mailed stories from the Yahoo! News Web site on Friday, December 14. It has also been cited and appeared on hundreds of blogs."

"Camera-phone images frequently help win convictions in sexual-assault cases. ‘Once a defense attorney sees them, the no longer quibble about the charges,’ says Gary Kessler, who teaches digital forensics at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont, and consults for state police."

The Wall Street Journal, December 10, 2007

"The rebounding of international student enrollments this past year on US campuses, and the continued increase in US students abroad, resulted in wide coverage in the US and international press, as the findings of the Open Doors Report and the Fall 2007 enrollment survey were released around the world on November 12 by the Institute of International Education.

Some of the top stories included articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, US News & World Report and on AP and AFP wire services, as well as a three-page spread in the Chronicle of Higher Education. There are also ongoing stories appearing in regional press, as well as campus publications starting to use Open Doors to showcase their internationalization."

"‘What they tend to do – and it starts early – is they micro manage their children . . doing all of these things early on. That’s now carrying over into college,’ said Diana Nash, a counselor at Marymount Manhattan College in New York."

"‘The class, "The Neanderthals: Fact, Fiction and Fantasy,’ explores the popular misconceptions about these pre-humans that have been perpetuated through literature, movies and now television,’ according to Professor John Barthleme, St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y."

"On a recent afternoon, Katie Powers, 21, swam in the still water of Lake Massawepie, though the lake’s temperature was somewhere in the 50s. Then she threw on several layers of clothing, and walked a path blanketed with pine needles until she reached a group of her peers sitting in the sun. Few sounds were heard beyond the soft strum of a guitar, the melody punctuated by laughter. Appearances aside, this was no vacation; Ms. Powers, a junior at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y., is one of 12 students living in the wilderness here as part of a university program,’ Adirondack Semester.’"

"Internet strategy management expert Elaine J. Young, associate professor and director of the marketing program and the e-business management degree at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont, spoke about social media and the presidency on POTUS 8 – XM Satellite Radio. Her observations about presidential candidates use of social media, the Internet and web presence was also featured in Campaigns and Elections magazine."

"David Romano, assistant professor of international studies at Rhodes College, was interviewed on the growth of the Islamic movement in the Kurdish region of Iraq; Voice of America radio broadcast, October 26, 2007 and on WCCO radio (CBS affiliate in Minneapolis), October 17 on Turkey’s Parliamentary vote in favor of their cross-border offensive against the Kurdish rebels."

"For centuries, sages have alluded to a richness in life’s later years that is lost on the young. But only in the last decade have researchers begun to measure happiness across the life span, and in doing so, try to understand why older people tend to be so content … ‘When you have a disaster at 10 in the morning, you can deal with it better when you’re older,’ says Stacey Wood, a neuropsychologist and associate professor at Scripps College in Claremont. &lsquoWith people in their 20s, it throws them off. They experience more emotion, and it throws them off.’"

"As we just saw, a young woman chose to know the future of her health by genetic testing. This option is becoming more and more common, but there is very little information available to the public about genetic testing. Here to talk about the consequences, good and bad, of genetic testing is Caroline Lieber, director of the Joan H. Marks Graduate Program in Human Genetics at Sarah Lawrence College in New York."

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