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: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Monday , October 31, 2011 Get in line For inhalable . caffeine Yes , I said inhalable caffeine This innovation should prove to be better than the short-lived caffeine mints I blogged about earlier . nbsp By Maia Szalaviz , writing in Time s Healthland What We’ve All Been Waiting For : Zero-Calorie , Inhalable’ Caffeine Ever wish you could mainline your coffee Well , here's the next best thing : AeroShot , a new product that delivers inhalable caffeinated puffs , and has got productivity-obsessed technophiles . buzzing AeroShot's delivery system is a light , plastic inhaler that shoots lime-flavored puffs of powdered caffeine
: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Friday , October 28, 2011 Advise for completing your terminal degree While working . full-time Many of us in continuing higher education have completed our doctorates while working in higher education and raising a family . nbsp It's hard , and there are many , many A.B.D.s out there to prove that point . nbsp George S . McClellan , writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education has advice for those combining doctorates and full-time employment . nbsp And like he says below , for those already with jobs , it's all about finishing The one thing he neglects to mention is finding a supportive spouse , like I had , nbsp to help you
: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Thursday , October 27, 2011 Why we need liberal arts majors Should we only produce college graduates in STEM fields This college president , writing in Slate doesn't think so . nbsp We will always need creative people who can solve problems and handle abiguity , and these can come from a variety of majors . Michael M . Crow , president of Arizona State University , explains why Florida Gov . Rick Scott’s emphasis on practical education is . short-sighted Last week , Florida Gov . Rick Scott called for reductions in state appropriations for particular academic disciplines so that public universities can focus resources on
: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Thursday , October 27, 2011 Tales of the non-traditional She earns her GED at her local community college Diploma opens new doors on life Just months before she was to turn 50, Debi Tully decided to finish high . school It was the summer of 2007 and the Oak Lawn mother of two believed that finally getting her diploma would be the ultimate birthday gift to herself . She registered for the General Educational Development GED review class at Moraine Valley Community College in Palos . Hills I was the oldest in my class , 8221 she said . But after the first half hour , I felt perfectly comfortable . 8221 She always knew she was
: . Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Wednesday , October 26, 2011 Coffee . Is there anything you can't do Prevents skin cancer . From Vitals on . MSNBC.com Three cups of coffee a day to help keep skin cancer away Drinking copious amounts of coffee may reduce the risk of the most common type of skin cancer , a new study . finds Women in the study who drank more than three cups of coffee a day were 20 percent less likely to develop basal cell carcinoma , a slow-growing form of skin cancer than those who drank less than one cup a . month Men in the study who consumed more than three cups of coffee had a 9 percent reduction in their basal cell carcinoma . risk
Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Wednesday , October 26, 2011 From DESIGNEDBYNATALIE Posted by Rick Osborn Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook : Reactions 0 comments : Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom About Me Rick Osborn I'm a recent past president of the Association for Continuing Higher Education ACHE and also a past President of the Tennessee Alliance for Continuing Higher Education TACHE In the real world , I work in university continuing education administration . The views expressed here are my own and not the views of any college , university , or professional organization--no matter how
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: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Tuesday , October 25, 2011 SACS and so forth Assessment is draining all the energy out of higher . education Lesboprof blogging in The Chronicle of Higher Education commiserates for all of us . Assessment in higher education : On the train or under it For those of you who are responsible for collecting data for outside accrediting bodies , I would like to invite you to join in on a moment of bitching whining reflection . nbsp For those of you faculty and administrators who don’t have primary responsibility for evaluating our work with students , our new programs , our curricula , and our productivity , you might as well read
: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Monday , October 24, 2011 Short-term executive business programs Although business schools colleges prefer to run these themselves , there might be opportunities here for continuing education partnerships . From The Wall Street . Journal B-Schools Say Demand Still Strong for Pricey Leadership Programs These days , 39,000 can buy a new Lexus , a three-bedroom house in Detroit or a full year of undergraduate tuition at the University of Pennsylvania . It also can get you a three-week executive-education program at Penn's Wharton School . The program , dubbed Global CEO Program : A Transformational Journey , includes one-week
: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Friday , October 21, 2011 The College of Charleston's unconference Sounds like a interesting way to plan a . meeting Perhaps a model ACHE could use for regional meetings or miniconferences . nbsp From the Charleston Regional Business . Journal BarCamp returns for another unconference’ In less than two weeks , BarCamp Charleston returns to the campus of the College of Charleston for the annual ad hoc conference that prefers to be called an unconference . 8221 BarCamp , which in the past brought together experts and attendees to talk about everything from computer programming to bacon , is a free-form gathering participants
: , Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Friday , October 21, 2011 Ah , to be disconnected from the Overmind Sure it's . tempting But then what would I do on the weekends and on vacation Like Sam Graham-Felsen , I too have read Thoreau . nbsp From . Technology Why I Dumped My iPhone—And I'm Not Going Back No matter how impure Thoreau’s experiment in simple living may have been , there was something undeniable in his suggestion that we often have to strip convenience from our lives to feel alive . The iPhone had certainly made my life easier , but had it made my life better First thing the next morning , I went to the AT T store . I had to explain several times
: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Thursday , October 20, 2011 Which states have the highest student loan default rates Arizona has the highest at nearly 16 But some of the others are surprising : Arkansas 11.74 Indiana 11.61 Iowa 11.56 Tennessee is at 9.92 Montana and North Dakota are below 4 USA Today has a neat interactive map if you follow the link : below For-profit colleges focus of student loan issue Federal student aid is increasingly flowing to for-profit colleges and universities , raising concerns about whether the money is being . well-spent The federal government has promoted and subsidized loans as a way to help young people and workers get the
: , Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Thursday , October 20, 2011 Mama , don't let your babies grow up to be . Teachers Has there ever been a worse time to be a teacher Now , a new study shows high attrition rates after the first year . From the National Center for Education Statistics Beginning Teacher Attrition and Mobility Of the teachers who began teaching in public schools in 2007 or 2008, about 10 percent were not teaching in 2008–09, and 12 percent were not teaching in 2009–10. Posted by Rick Osborn Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook : Reactions 0 comments : Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom
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: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Friday , October 14, 2011 I'm not surprised Although sometimes a banana is just a . banana Or so I've heard . nbsp By Dino Grandoni writing in The Atlantic . Wire 92 of Top Ten Billboard Songs Are About Sex Get your heads out of the gutters , America's musicians . We always knew that with all your nipple-showing and lesbian-kissing and crotch-grabbing that you're obsessed with sex , and today we have the science to back it up : Approximately 92 of the 174 songs that made it into the Billboard Top 10 in 2009 contained reproductive messages , says SUNY Albany psychology professor Dawn R . Hobbs in Evolutionary Psychology That's
: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Friday , October 14, 2011 A continuing educator walks by a bar I hope you've enjoyed the walks into a bar . series Of course , there are many of these jokes and many of them were either too off-color or otherwise inappropriate for the format . nbsp So to end it , I'm going to just list the punchlines of some of the jokes I didn't use . nbsp You can either extrapolate the joke from the punchline shades of the Millers Analogy Test or google the punchline . nbsp I've numbered them so at next year's conference in Austin , we can just yell the numbers out I'm sorry , we don't serve food . here I can't believe that the ferret sold
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