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Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch gave a lecture on Time Management at the University of Virginia in November 2007. Randy Pausch -- http://www.randypausch.com -- is a virtual reality pioneer, human-computer interaction researcher, co-founder of Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center -- http://www.etc.cmu.edu -- and creator of the Alice -- http://www.alice.org -- software project. The slides for this lecture and high-res downloadable versions of this and other lectures can be found at: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Randy/.
| Student's sex education editorial killed (UPI) FALLBROOK, Calif., Aug. 7 (UPI) -- A recent California high school graduate is mad the principal killed her final editorial for the school newspaper, denouncing "abstinence-only sex education." |
| Mass. Gov. signs $2.2B higher education bond bill (Boston Globe) Gov. Deval Patrick has signed a 10-year, $2.2 billion higher education bond bill to help pay for new building and renovation projects at the state's public colleges and universities. |
| Correction: Earns-Career Education story (AP via Yahoo! Finance) In an Aug. 6 story about earnings for Career Education Corp., The Associated Press misstated the number of its new student starts in the most recent quarter. The for-profit education company had 19,330 new students, not 11,590, which was the figure for its university segment. |
| Higher education council will report to governor's office (Louisville Courier-Journal) The governor signed an executive order today to make the change and said it will strengthen the state's hand in seeking a new higher education chief. |
| Hone science, tech abilities: education chief (The Japan Times) Promoting science and technology is every bit as important as improving the education system in general, according to Tsuneo Suzuki, the newly appointed education, culture, sports, science and technology minister. "This is really a key to the future of Japan," the 67-year-old Suzuki said in a recent interview. Read the full story |
