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What’s New at University of Venus - Week Ending 9 July 2011
Our writers:
â— Lee Skallerup Bessette will be an Early College Mentor for area high school teachers offering college-level English courses. This is a pilot project and her role will be to support teachers and maintain academic rigour. She is hoping to use social media tools to create a community for the educators involved and encourage them to do the same in their classrooms.
â— Mary Churchill’s article Beyond the “Company Man” Model: Rethinking Academic Administration for Work–Life Balance was featured in the From Where I Sit column in the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) On Campus With Women spring newsletter (Vol 40 No 1) -- a special issue on Gender and Higher Education Leadership.
â— Rosalie Arcala Hall has been elected to a 3-year term to the Asian Public Intellectual (API) Regional Committee as Philippine representative. The API program has been awarding individual research fellowships grants to 5 countries in Asia since 2001. The Regional Committee develops policies and post-fellowship programs for the 350+ API fellows. Previously, she was the leader of the Philippine working group for the API Regional Project on Human Ecological Balance.
Around the web:
â— Janni Aragon Summer courses post-mortem and working in short bursts.
â— Lee Skallerup Bessette on reflecting about those things that are unmeasurable in education and why people never question her 13 “wasted” years swimming (versus her PhD in Comparative Literature).
â— Melonie Fullick posted a higher education news round-up at her blog, Speculative Diction. She recently wrote two guests posts about using Prezi, (here, and here) for Jo VanEvery’s blog.
â— Elizabeth Lewis Pardoe on celebrating America’s True Colors.
