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7 mai 2019

Colorado Rocky Mountain High

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Colorado Rocky Mountain High

By Stephen Downes, August 10, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect]. More...

7 mai 2019

Aspen, Colorado

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Aspen, Colorado
I am at the mountain resort of Snowmass, Colorado, today, attending the EDUCAUSE Seminars in Academic Computing, where I'll be talking on 'Principles of Distributed Representation' tomorrow. Yesterday I had the opportunity to take the bus to Aspen, where I spent a nice Sunday afternoon wandering around the town (leaving me a bit worn out today, I might add). Anyhow, this link is to my collection of photos, and for those of you with really good broadband, I made a (32 megabyte WMV format) video of my day (Windows Media might stream it for you; my results have been variable). By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, August 8, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect]. More...

5 mai 2019

The Warren Proposal

No doubt everyone has heard about the ginormous ($1.25 trillion) promise that Massachusetts Senator and Democratic Presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren made around post-secondary education last week. More...
5 mai 2019

University of North Carolina at Charlotte shooting has these things in common with other campus shootings

The ConversationThe April 30 shooting at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte follows a familiar pattern of mass shootings at college campuses in the United States. More...
5 mai 2019

Thoughts on Warren’s Proposed Jubilee

By Matt Reed. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, as part of her campaign for the Democratic Party nomination for President in 2020, has proposed forgiving existing college loans, as well as making public colleges and universities tuition-free. More...

5 mai 2019

Just This Week

By Matt Reed. Gun violence, again and again and again.
On Wednesday, we devoted a chunk of the Cabinet meeting to discussing various measures to ensure or improve the physical security of everyone on campus. By necessity, that involved discussions of some pretty awful scenarios. More...

5 mai 2019

Prudential to Spend $180 Million on Education and Training

HomeBy Paul Fain. Prudential Financial announced on Tuesday that it will spend $180 million through 2025 on education and training for young people, ages 15 to 29, who lack access to education, training or regular jobs. The financial services company said it was making this investment in so-called opportunity youth to help prepare the future global work force. More...

5 mai 2019

Fraternities No More at Swarthmore

HomeBy Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. After students occupied one of the Greek houses on campus for four days, protesting a long history of accusations against them, the two chapters at the college dissolved themselves. More...

5 mai 2019

Colorado State Asks Students to Nix ‘Undie Run’

HomeBy Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Colorado State University is urging students not to participate in an annual tradition before the end of the semester in which they dash around campus in their underwear, citing the potential for sexual misconduct and drug and alcohol use. More...

5 mai 2019

Fraternity House Sit-In

HomeBy Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Students at Swarthmore -- angry over reports of sexual violence and leaks of internal fraternity emails -- are demanding administrators kick out Greek groups. More...

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