Just wanted to share this…anyone else out there have a commencement that the kids don’t like? Our school newspaper reported about a group of students planning to protest the Commencement speaker (Mr. Jamie Dimon, Chief Executive Officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co.). Students don’t fell
From our friends over at The (other) Oatmeal comes a list of 8 websites that you need to stop building. Share this with your web team! Building a fancy Flash intro? Stop it. Talking about which Web 2.0 features you should include? Cut it out!
OK, so he phrased it nicer than that, but President Obama’s message was basically the same. At a recent commencement ceremony, he spoke about how graduating from college is a great step, but it’s not the last step to take. It’s important to help others
The Great Jordini is a senior at Indiana University who has created his own major…in magic. Yup, he’s getting his degree in magic. That’s about all I can say about that. http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=75169
Most colleges are concerned with attracting the best and brightest from around the world (if you don’t have an international student recruitment strategy, why not???) So, here’s some news to keep an eye on: Taiwanese colleges will now begin to admit students from mainline China.
Great blog entry about the Millennials who heard nothing but “Good job, sweetie! You’re the best! You can do anything you want to do in life!” from their parents and how they are now hearing WAY different things from their professors in college. (HINT: you’re
Tax exempt debt. Bond issuance. Foregone revenue. As a marketing person, I read those words and yawn. Boooring. Boring but important. It might take a quick call down to the Econ Department to help with some of the verbiage but I’m determined to understand this
Great article about how Twitter is using technology to correct people’s grammar. Here at Academic Oatmeal, we love that! http://gawker.com/5526685/twitter-gives-grammar-junkies-a-new-way-t… You liked the article? You might be interested in this or this!
Oh my God. It’s like being back in high school again. I have to worry about getting everyone to like me. Now that Facebook has made ‘fans’ obsolete and it’s all about the ‘like’, I thought you all would ‘like’ to see an article about
In case you’ve been living somewhere without phone, TV, newspaper, internet or media of any kind, let me be the first to tell you. Budgets are being cut. And universities are looking for ways to save money. One of the first things colleges look into
