New York City Major Michael Bloomberg powered past his disappointment after not receiving promised ice cream from Franklin and Marshall College President Daniel Porterfield to remind graduating students to live a life of service, the Huffington Post reports. His 20-minute address centered on thinking independently and evoked the college’s founders Benjamin Franklin and John Marshall to inspire students. Bloomberg said the men ignored conventional thinking and had few nice words to say about sitting congressmen. Skip to the six-minute mark, where the speech really starts…
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Michigan needs to invest more in higher education to better compete with states like North Carolina, where a four-year education costs $20,000 less, the head of Domino’s Pizza said Monday, the Associated Press reports.
“In Michigan this fiscal year, we will dedicate 76 percent more general fund dollars to our prisons than we will to our public universities,” Domino’s President and CEO J. Patrick Doyle told a Business Leaders for Michigan summit on higher education at the Lansing Center. “In North Carolina, they will spend almost twice as much on universities as they will on prisons.”
Doyle said the two states are similar in population, personal income, joblessness, the size of their state budgets and the number of people they have in prison or college. But while Michigan spends $1.1 billion annually on higher education, North Carolina spends $2.5 billion……Read More
Mitt Romney is Liberty University commencement speaker
Mitt Romney on Thursday visited a factory shuttered when George W. Bush was in the White House, and said its lingering idleness marks a failure of President Barack Obama’s economic policies, the Huffington Post reports.
“Had the president’s policies worked it, would be open again,” the Republican presidential contender told a small audience seated in the cavernous space. Obama visited the factory – then open – during his 2008 campaign for the White House, and Romney’s aides chose the site specifically for its presumed political advantage.
The gamesmanship underscored a central feature of the 2012 campaign, in which Romney hopes voters will turn Obama out of office because of high unemployment and other economic difficulties, while the president seeks credit for the recovery that has cut joblessness nationally as well as in Ohio and other states in the industrial Midwest……Read More
Fake college presidents invade Twitter
I wrote an article earlier this month about college students and recent alumni who have created Twitter accounts parodying their university presidents, says Jenna Johnson, columnist for the Washington Post. For the most part, these fake accounts are used to transform suit-and-tie-wearing leaders into foul-mouthed partiers — but they also satirically comment on problems within the university. Fake accounts have long been a part of Twitter’s insider culture, but the online sport really took off after several accounts went viral. During the BP oil spill off the Gulf Coast in 2010, @BPGlobalPR did public relations for the company by tweeting things like, ”The good news: Mermaids are real. The bad news: They are now extinct. #bpcares.” And last year many political junkies in Washington were obsessed with @MayorEmanuel, an account parodying former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel…
…Read MoreMichelle Obama to speak at Virginia Tech, North Carolina A&T, Oregon State commencements
Michelle Obama will speak at three college graduation ceremonies this spring, including two in key general election battleground states, the Huffington Post reports. Mrs. Obama’s first commencement address will be at Virginia Tech. The White House says the first lady has been inspired by the school’s resiliency following the deadly 2007 campus shootings. Mrs. Obama will also speak at North Carolina A&T, a historically black university. Virginia and North Carolina are both politically important states that will be crucial to President Barack Obama’s reelection prospects…
…Read MorePhotos: College students hold rallies across the nation for Trayvon Martin
College students across the country are gathering for rallies and marches demanding justice for Trayvon Martin, the Huffington Post reports. Martin was an unarmed 17-year-old who was allegedly shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a self-appointed neighborhood watchman in Sanford, Fla. on Feb. 26, 2012. Zimmerman claimed the shooting was done in self defense and has not been charged. Now, college students disturbed by this perceived injustice are calling for Zimmerman’s arrest. At least a dozen demonstrations will be held Monday in states like California, Texas, Indiana, New York and Florida…
…Read MoreGraduate students explain why they picked their schools
Graduate school students have myriad reasons for choosing their higher education paths. Here, in their own words, five current students tell U.S. News why they chose to attend their particular graduate schools to pursue their interests:
Why I Picked University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, Meagan Elyse Hanna, third-year J.D. candidate: As I was researching law schools, I became overwhelmed when they all started to look the same. Then I visited the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law. I was welcomed into the UDM Law family from the moment I walked in the door. The close-knit community of students, faculty, and administrators provides a learning environment I found unparalleled in support and encouragement. Add to that UDM’s commitment to making its graduates “practice ready” through its clinics, law firm program courses, and writing across the curriculum, and I was sold. Thanks to UDM, I’ll graduate this year with the confidence I need to compete in the legal job market…
Watch: Georgetown president defends Sandra Fluke, blasts Rush Limbaugh
The president of Georgetown University on Friday came to the defense of a law student who was referred to as a “slut” and a “prostitute” by conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh after she testified last week in support of health insurance plans covering the cost of contraceptives, the Washington Post reports. President John J. DeGioia sent an e-mail to everyone on campus Friday morning in which he did not address the university’s health-care policies but supported third-year law student Sandra Fluke’s “right to respectful free expression.” The Catholic school’s health insurance plan does not cover contraceptives, and Fluke quickly became the face of the issue after she offered to speak for her classmates who have to pay out of pocket for birth control. She has subsequently been attacked by pundits and bloggers, most famously Limbaugh…
…Read MoreJoe Paterno rumors: Penn State editor quits after erroneous report is picked up nationally
The managing editor of a student-run news organization that covers Penn State resigned hours after the publication tweeted erroneously that former coach Joe Paterno had died, the Associated Press reports. Paterno’s sons had disputed Onward State’s Saturday posts, and the publication had recanted. Paterno’s family announced he had died Sunday. The Saturday report was amplified by media organizations across the country and retweeted uncounted times. The Associated Press did not publish the report. Devon Edwards, the managing editor, said in the letter that he takes responsibility for the misinformation…
…Read MoreSchools get help with big internet protocol change
A trove of advice, tips, and hints for switching to the internet’s newest protocol, known as IPv6, is available for schools and colleges that haven’t completed the network alterations and hardware upgrades necessary to convert to IPv6 before the internet runs out of web addresses.
The Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC), along with the Internet Society, introduced a website last week for schools, colleges, universities, businesses, and government agencies in the process of switching from IPv4 to IPV6. The site, called Deploy360, has case studies, best practices, and a host of technical papers designed to help IT officials convert to IPv6.
Every IPv4 address has been distributed with the proliferation of web-enabled mobile devices like smart phones and computer tablets. There is no official date for the conversion to IPv6 for web users, but technologists have said time may be running short.…Read More