The president of Adams State College is deferring his own 11 percent raise until his employees can have salary increases too, according to a report by the Alamosa Valley Courier. President David Svaldi received an “A” in his evaluation by the Adams State College Board of Trustees and his salary would have increased to $205,000. However Svaldi countered by telling the board that his employees have not had salary increases in four years due to budget cuts…
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The Daring Librarian: Wikipedia is not wicked!
My name is Gwyneth and I use Wikipedia every day. There, I said it. Somehow that’s pretty freeing! Wikipedia is NOT a dirty word, says Gwyneth Anne Jones, who works as a teacher-librarian in Laurel, Md., and who writes The Daring Librarian blog, for the Washington Post. We’re doing a disservice by not teaching our kids HOW to use it and how to cite it selectively and with forethought. Sadly, I don’t believe teachers and college professors are ready to wrap their mind around or admit a study by Nature magazine that showed Wikipedia to be only somewhat less accurate than Encyclopedia Britannica.on selected topics (see below for more on this study, which Britannica contested and Nature defended**)...
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