03.05.2012 | Comments Off
New Headquarters:
Afterhours at Buena Vista Coffee, 1501 Buena Vista Street
Guest Speaker Gatherings, Tuesdays @ 7:00
Come join us Tuesday nights for excellent food and thoughtful discussion centered broadly around, what Sir Albert Howard calls ... Continue Reading »
12.23.2011 | Comments Off
This was a hopeful year in the world of education, here is my brief best-of list. It is by no means comprehensive, let me know what I missed.
10. Senate Hearings on For-Profit Schools
While ... Continue Reading »
12.20.2011 | Comments Off
Fellow Students,
Five months from now, our country's college seniors will smile and grab their diplomas at graduation. They will be part of the most in-debt graduating class our country has ever seen, faced ... Continue Reading »
11.29.2011 | Comments Off
For some time now I have been considering the difficult capability that our technologies have to simultaneously improve and destroy us. For every helpful visit we make to Wikipedia.com, we waste time on ... Continue Reading »
10.11.2011 | Comments Off
Last night at dinner, I heard about a small school in Mexico from a former Calvin College professor, who now teaches at a small college on a Native American reservation. I believe he ... Continue Reading »
10.06.2011 | Comments Off
According to their website the core purpose of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is: "to govern competition in a fair, safe, equitable and sportsmanlike manner, and to integrate intercollegiate athletics into higher ... Continue Reading »
09.27.2011 | Comments Off
The Mozilla Foundation has launched a new initiative to organize a framework for alternative education accreditation. Their project, "Open Badge Infrastructure", seeks to establish a new standard for validating non-traditional learning experiences.
There's a ... Continue Reading »
09.13.2011 | Comments Off
According to the New York Times, student loan default rates have risen sharply this year, another sign that the future of higher education is in question. Each month it is becoming increasingly obvious ... Continue Reading »