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Chiseling Away at the Humanities
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February 28, 2010 |
Taking on the B-School Boys Club
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Interest in business programs is growing at women's colleges, and a second one recently won AACSB accreditation. More are expected to follow February 24, 2010 |
As Girls Become Women, Sports Pay Dividends
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February 16, 2010 |
Women Will Double the World's Supply of Ideas
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February 12, 2010 Home prices keep falling, but productivity is rising fast. GDP grew 5.6 percent in the fourth quarter, yet unemployment remains stubbornly high. Inflation is nonexistent, while the consumer confidence index just rose to 55.9 from 53.6—whatever that means. Can't make sense of these economic indicators? Don't worry, because nobody else can, either. Here is what you really need to know: a Sonic Boom is coming. It will be caused by globalization. And while globalization may be driving you crazy, it's just getting started. Thirty years ago, Shenzhen, China, did not exist; today, it has nearly 9 million residents, roughly the same as New York City. In a single generation, it has grown from a village of tar-paper shacks into an important urban center. It has become the world's fourth-busiest port, busier than Los Angeles and Long Beach combined. Never before has a great city been built so fast, nor a productive economy established from so little. |
Measuring Success for the Real Majority in Higher Education Today
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by Patricia A. McGuire Yvonne is a typical college student in 2010. She’s working on a
paper due in her american Fiction course. She has to finish some reading
for her gender communication course, and has a nagging worry about passing
statistics. She turns away from her computer to help her son, a second-grader,
with his spelling homework, and then is distracted by her pre-school daughter’s
insistence that she give equal time to her crayon drawing. Yvonne also
remembers that she promised her boss that she’d be at work early
the next day to help prepare an important contract presentation. Yvonne,
a single parent, knows that her collegiate studies are a good example
for her children, but she feels stressed about balancing all of the many
demands on her time and energy—being a good mother, successful student,
and productive worker. |


