President Obama says that he is putting Colleges and Universities on notice. If they don't stop tuition from increasing, they will watch their public funding decrease. Funny. I think most pubic colleges and Universities are increasing their tuition BECAUSE public funding is being cut by state lawmakers. Maybe I'm missing some Federal system of higher education?!
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It looks like the America Invents Act has been passed by both the House and Senate, and it is on its way to the President's desk. And it looks like the President is going to sign the bill. What is this going to mean?
Truman State Univeristy has the unique honor to be one of a handful of colleges or Universities to have a PRISM grant from the National Science Foundation. We earned the honor of this grant on the basis of our ability to marshal faculty support for the idea that STEM education in the twenty-first century is different from the STEM education of the twentieth century. At Truman, we've had great success in building a curriculum supporting the New Biology, and our NSF PRISM grant is helping us extend this to other STEM disciplines. Specifically, it's helping us reach freshmen in the following way.
Today, it looks like the winningest coach in college basketball (women's or men's) is talking openly about her diagnosis of early onset dimentia. And UTK is keeping her on staff. And at the vanguard of their programs. Good for them!!!!!
After more thought, it seems to me that this article, 'At This Girls' Camp, Crafts Take a Drill Press', describes programs that superficially prepare young women for careers in manufacturing. But it's more about preparing girls to be makers, and opening doors to future careers that would otherwise go unnoticed.
It's hard to say what they got out of it. We talked a bit about helium and buoyancy, but mostly they helped with some of the mechanical things like winding the balloons up to and down from the sky with my drill rig. Doing little things like this, I hope, will give them the confidence to use their hands to make, break, and build things. And to learn from that process. Just I like I've learned so much from this process of preparing this campus experience for those 28 Kansas City kids who hope to go to college in five years.
