Life News (Education)

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Purdue's Ackerman Center Summer Institute offers a seminar on developing and implementing character education that is available at no cost to teachers and educators across the nation.

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In Jan. 2001, Hamilton College will introduce a program of study and internship experience in New York City centering on the idea of globalization.

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Geraldine Laybourne, CEO of Oxygen Media, will deliver Vassar College's 136th commencement address in the outdoor amphitheater overlooking Sunset Lake.

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Middle schoolers in Boulder will go head-to-head with a Denver TV meteorologist in an on-line forecasting contest, which is part of a kids' Web site.

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William E. Troutt, president of Rhodes College, will be installed as chair of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities at its annual meeting Feb. 4 in Washington, D.C.

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A "salon"-type gathering of people, ranging from high school seniors to practicing medical doctors, who enjoy quarks, pizza, liquid nitrogen ice-cream -- and share a love of physics -- meets monthly at The University of Tulsa.

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The winner of the Republican Party's presidential nomination will be George W. Bush, according to students at Washington and Lee University. Bush was selected during the school's 2000 Republican Mock Convention on Jan. 29. They've only been wrong once since 1948.

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Former national security adviser Anthony Lake will launch a series concerning U.S. foreign interventions with a lecture called "Foreign Humanitarian Intervention: Which Children to Save?" (Feb. 10, 2000).

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The Economics Department of Mount Holyoke College is hosting a conference on "The World Economy in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities," Feb. 18 and 19, 2000.

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Pinning Wisconsin's economic growth to the potential of biotechnology, Gov. Tommy Thompson has proposed a $317 million investment in research centers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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In the face of increasing hacker attacks, at-risk personal computer users do have a few options, says a UAB computer engineer.

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When it comes to religious diversity on campus, a small liberal arts college in eastern Pennsylvania may be leading the way. Muhlenberg College is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, but its students have found an open, caring community for members of all denominations.

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Purdue University has embarked on a long-term, $200 million expedition to upgrade its Schools of Engineering facilities and expand them by almost 60 percent.

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General Colin L. Powell will join Michael S. Olson of the American Society of Association Executives, along with local students and their mentors, as part of a rally to build support for Groundhog Job Shadow Day 2000.

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Five poets will travel to The University of Tulsa as part of an innovative English course in which freshmen and sophomores will study the published works of the poets.

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Ball State students are reading Australian books and then having online debates and discussions with their counterparts down under who are reading the same materials.

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The University at Buffalo has figured out how to keep information flowing to freshmen through the development of MyUB, an online portal that actually grows with the student.

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A Hamptons' college and a Queens' high school hope that their collaboration will help inner city students toward higher education.

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Business leaders, educators and brain researchers will come together on January 20, 2000 to share information and common concerns. This innovative conference joins three vastly different groups who share common goals and concerns, and is being sponsored by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

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Under a new grant, one university is helping future librarians understand and cope with the demands of electronic information systems in the public library setting through Web-based classes that begin Jan. 18.

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Journalists interested in learning more international human rights can add to their knowledge and enhance their understanding of this complex issue through a week-long fellowship this March at Trinity College.

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The Tutorial College at Trinity will allow 60 sophomores to live in their own dormitory, create their own honor code, and study with an interdisciplinary group of professors.

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Civil rights activist and former Georgia legislator Julian Bond will discuss "2000: A Race Odyssey" at Rhodes College's celebration of the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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As the result of a $23 million gift from a foundation of New York investor Stanley Druckenmiller, Bowdoin College will be able to establish endowments in information and educational technology.

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Online pedagogy study by UI researchers concludes that compensation for inherent alienation is needed, the Internet is inappropriate for undergraduate degree programs, and quality online instruction is more costly than traditional instruction.

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Purdue University students will immortalize the 20th century's most significant inventions Feb. 12 during the 18th annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest.

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Disadvantaged elementary school students who regularly attended a summer school program made significant academic gains compared with students who stayed home.

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Purdue University students will immortalize the 20th century's most significant inventions Feb. 12 during the 18th annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest.

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A Chicago-area school recently began using virtual programs that, projected three-dimensionally, link education, technology, and fun for first- through sixth-graders.

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Professors of economics at Hamilton College conducted a study among liberal arts colleges, attempting to answer the question of why there are so few women interested in economics classes.

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1- Elvis's Hound Dog changed rock music; 2- Survey shows seniors pleased with college experience; 3- Tax cut appeals to conservative voters; 4- Aquatic center first in state; 5- Jail populations quickly growing; 6- Professor helps state win national award.

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Faculty and college students agree that understanding diversity is important for success after graduation, according to a recent Ball State University survey.

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Education writer and school-reform advocate Michael Klonsky, director of the Small Schools Workshop at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has been named to the Academic Advisory Council of the National Campaign Against Youth Violence.

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A Kent State professor has embarked on building a worldwide Internet community for the deaf, their parents, and their current and future teachers and, in the process, is creating a revolution in deaf/hard of hearing education.

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Researchers at Ohio State found that the acoustics of many classrooms are poor enough to make listening and learning difficult for children. Only two of 32 classrooms studied met the standards recommended by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

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In recent debates, proponents of school choice have maintained that parents would make choices based on school quality and school preferences, not on racial bias.

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An 18-year-old senior at Centre College has become one of the youngest Americans ever named a Rhodes Scholar. He is interested in mathematical modeling as a way of studying human diseases.

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The number of foreign students attending colleges and universities in the U.S. increased 2% in the 1998-99 school year to a record total of 490,933, according to a report published by the Institute of International Education (IIE).

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The number of U.S. students receiving credit for study abroad jumped nearly 15% from the previous year, reaching a record total of 113,959, according to a report published by the Institute of International Education (IIE).

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Univ. of Kansas' journalism school unveils convergent curriculum that capitalizes on technological advances like the Internet while maintaining strong editing, writing.

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The University of Maryland is creating the nation's first living-learning entrepreneurship program that will bring together undergraduate students from different disciplines to study entrepreneurship, live and work together in a specially equipped dorm, and perhaps even create their own startup businesses.

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A new Web-based international business course links teams of students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with teams of students from universities in Italy, Chile and Hong Kong.

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The number of high school graduates has risen from a little more than one out of 100 students to some four out of five in the past 100 years. But the American century has seen its share of successes and failures in education, according to faculty at Vanderbilt Universityís Peabody College of education and human development.

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Declining SAT scores by Indiana's high school students may be due to several factors, says a Ball State University educator.

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Universities in the Far East are struggling to keep up with advances in computer technology, says a Ball State University study.

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A new University of Wisconsin-Madison online science course in geology based on the content of the popular Why Files Web site promises to draw sciencephobes like claim jumpers to a gold strike.

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Parents seeking quality education alternatives for kids enrolled in public schools can find what they're looking for at a small schools exhibition coming to the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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To edit video images of a research project in Mexico, Mississippi State University graduate student Alan Jones doesn't head for a television studio. He drops by the School of Architecture.

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David Perlmutter, a professor of linguistics at the University of California, San Diego, has been elected president of the Linguistic Society of America.

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Smith College President Ruth J. Simmons is calling upon colleges and universities to develop a set of principles for dealing with racial inequities inside their institutions and, by extension, within society as a whole.