The McIntire School of Commerce held its seventh annual fall symposium on Friday, Sept. 29 in Old Cabell Hall. The School's symposia, organized by its Center for Growth Enterprises, each year examines the complex nature and origins of organizational success. "With every symposium, we work to facilitate compelling, multidimensional discussions of timely and important issues," said McIntire Dean Carl Zeithaml.…
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Jim Moore's beautiful and warm observations of the passing of a giant of our times.. John Kenneth Galbraith was not only a beloved economist,he was also a local whose towering strides, slowing as he aged, were a common site on Church Street, Brattle Street, and in and around Harvard Square. There was something enormously calming about his presence, and something reassuring about seeing…
Monika Krusemann has a piece on teaching in universities in Online Opinion. Link: Extending the blowtorch
A G M 2006 The Board of Directors of the Central Ranges Local Learning and Employment Network Inc. [CRLLEN] wishes to advise that its Annual General Meeting for 2006 will be held between 07:00am – 9:30am on Monday May 15th at the beautiful FLOWERDALE ESTATE, on the Broadford-Flowerdale Road, Strath Creek. www.flowerdaleestate.com.au As was the theme of last year’s meeting,…
Applications for the Access to Bandwidth Pilot Project are open until 10 May 2006. The Australian Flexible Learning Framework project pilots the use of national high capacity connectivity for teaching, learning and assessment. Criteria for applicants is available from the web site. Link: Applications for Access to Bandwidth Project
That should be that....but somehow I don't think so... The National Inquiry into the Teaching of Literacy in Australia. Link: Teaching Reading - National Library Teaching Reading - ACER
New book: "A New Sociology of Work?". This book asks what might be required of "a new sociology of work" and why such a project is vital for understanding people's working lives at the start of the twenty-first century. 16.08.08 [PASCAL Observatory]
Families and households and youth : My generation. Creed O'Hanlon questions the real influence of baby boomers in this essay for Griffith Review 13. He suggests that rather than being the social conscience of the twentieth century, they deliberately co-opted and distorted youth culture and turned it into a commodity, packaging dissent as readily as community, music or fashion. He…
In Today's Rat Race, the Most Overworked Win . For years, economists have taught their students a simple maxim: As employers hunt for workers, they want to get the best talent at the lowest price. By Shankar Vedantam. [washingtonpost.com - Business News From The Washington Post]