Florida's Statewide Career University Is All Over the Map

An interesting, very brief interview with Belinda Keiser, Vice Chancellor of Keiser University, by Jeff Wendt of Today's Campus:

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We have 100 bachelors students in Shanghai co-located with the Hong Kong Institute of Business and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. We have 50 students in the European Republic of Moldova, some of whom are pursuing MBAs. We also have 30 business degree students in Singapore. And, in Port St. Lucie, Florida we've just opened the Keiser University College of Golf.

Expanding the Canon: Original Research and Content Creation

If your job doesn't take you directly into the classroom, then even though you may work on campus, you may not realize how in some parts of the academic arena, the use of technology has drastically changed what the classroom experience is like. This article could be an eye-opener.

A Sense of Purpose: Interview with Michael Wesch

Michael Wesch's closing plenary address at SCUP-44 was very well received. Coincidentally, this interview with Wesch is available in EDUCAUSE Review, thus making some of his perspectives more widely available to those who could not come to Portland. Actually, these are a different set of perspectives. Asked about the effect of the budget crunch at the teaching and learning level, Wesch replies:

People I've talked to around campus, in just about every department, are worried about cuts and what might happen. This creates an immediate desire to make your program look better than the others, so that you're not the one who gets cut. If we're talking at the faculty level, what are faculty doing to address the budget crunch? I would say the first thing they're doing is trying to make themselves and their department look good. That is playing out, in some ways, in a race for majors, because the more majors your department has, the safer you are if you're concerned about your department being cut.