One of the many podcasts that I subscribe to are the short lectures given at the TED conferences. TED is a non-profit group that hosts multiple conferences each year in which they invite gifted speakers to share their ideas. People from around the world attend these conferences and pay a few thousand dollars for the [...]
July 28, 2010
Side Trails for July 28, 2010
It would be terribly ambitious to think that I could keep up the pace of making five thoughtful posts a week so I’ll stick to four a week for now. No promises of even maintaining that pace once school starts back up. This is the start of a little feature that I think I cleverly [...]
July 27, 2010
Connecting the Dots in Higher Education…
It is just too easy. Greensboro’s News and Record editorial page provides such ample fruit to pick from that I can hardly keep up. In a recent unsigned editorial from last Thursday, July 22, they sadly proclaim that students in the public university system will have to pay more for their education because of state [...]
