1 North American Joint Venture with Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
GB00B1G17S00/GBP/PLUS 7 September 2010 Quercus Publishing Plc ("Quercus" or the "Company") North American Joint Venture with Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. Quercus, the award-winning independent publisher of best-selling fiction and non-fiction books, including The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson, is to enter the fiction market in the US and Canada next year via a joint venture with Sterling ... Source: Marketwire
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2 Universities shouldn't blindly enlist in the digital revolution
The forgotten cell phone rings. The student, startled, shuts it off and mutters to the annoyed instructor, "Sorry." Head slyly bowed, another student texts the location of her party tonight, while a third clicks away at a laptop keyboard, e-mailing or checking his Facebook account. Source: The Sacramento Bee
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3 Esther Wojcicki: Teaching for a Shared Future: American Educators Need to Think Globally
American students' lack of knowledge about the world is unsettling. While debate over the building of the Islamic Cultural Center has made headlines, the majority of college-bound seniors cannot find Iraq or Israel on a map. Source: The Huffington Post
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4 AT THE PODIUM
The following lectures are scheduled this week at area colleges and universities. All events listed are free and open to the public: Source: South Bend Tribune
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5 Universities push to turn out cyber guards as demand explodes
"The government needs 1,000 people every year," said Carnegie Mellon's Dena Haritos Tsamitis. "Higher-ed institutions across the country aren't even close to providing enough." Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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6 Rround the region: Private colleges fare well in poor economy
William Carey, a Baptist-affiliated private university in Hattiesburg, is growing as public universities struggle with budget cuts. Source: Memphis Commercial Appeal
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7 CMC kicks off district-wide energy-efficiency upgrades
Workers are installing the “loop field” or coils for the new geoexchange system for energy-efficient cooling and heating of the residence halls at Colorado Mountain College in Glenwood Springs-Spring Valley. Source: Summit Daily News
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8 CMC kicks off district-wide energy-efficiency upgrades
Newly arriving students at Colorado Mountain College in Glenwood Springs-Spring Valley may wonder why there's large piles of dirt on campus. Well, construction started recently on new geoexchange heating and cooling systems for the library and residence hall there. It's the first of many major projects on a year-long list of energy-efficiency upgrades planned across the 11-site college. "I am ... Source: Summit Daily News
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9 A moral education: just what the university community needs
You know it's a bad year when you're beset by a series of serious problems before the year even begins. That's the kind of year teacher-educators in B.C. have been facing, with news that several student teachers were charged with sexual offences less than a month before the start of a new school year. Source: Vancouver Sun
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10 Organization Provides Home, Family to Indian Orphans
In 2004, as a freshman in college, Elizabeth Sholtys (’07C) founded an internationally-conscious, nonprofit organization with six other friends. Source: The Emory Wheel
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