In the 1967 movie “The Graduate,” some of you may remember the scene where Mr. McGuire takes Dustin Hoffman’s character, Benjamin, off to the side and says “Plastics … there’s a great future in plastics.” Little did we know… While that turned out poorly for the planet, there’s a similar word…
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The City University of New York announced that it received $700,000 from Robin Hood to fund a multi-campus expansion of the school’s groundbreaking initiative to integrate career milestones into academic degree maps. Robin Hood’s funding will allow CUNY to develop and provide roadmaps across 50 academic departments serving 25,000 students by fall 2024. Dr. Félix…
Walsh University will be the new home of Notre Dame College men’s and women’s Rugby teams the university announced. “I cannot express enough how happy we are to find a home at Walsh University as a Rugby program,” said Notre Dame College Director of Rugby Operations Jason Fox. “For Walsh University to take two entire…
Nonprofits depend on loyal donors to receive sustainable support for their work. This means your organization must provide a positive donor experience, not just in one event or campaign, but over the course of their involvement with your nonprofit. While communication metrics and donor feedback are good places to start stewarding donors, your nonprofit may overlook…
Listen to the article 6 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Minouche Shafik resigned as president of Columbia University Wednesday following months of calls for her departure from both pro-Palestinian protesters and their critics. Dr. Katrina Armstrong, Columbia’s dean of health sciences and CEO of the…
Ronald Mason Jr. will be honored with the 2024 Marie Fielder Medal for Social Transformation, present by Fielding Graduate University at the Fielding convocation on July 10. Ronald Mason Jr.The Marie Fielder Medal for Social Transformation is an annual signature award bestowed by the Marie Fielder Center for Democracy, Leadership, and Social Innovation, recognizing lifetime…
Canadian married couple/attorneys Nicholas Cartel and Singa Bui are in a dilly of a pickle since their firm’s trust account that holds their clients’ money has turned up light. Like millions of dollars short. As a result, they’ve both had their law licenses suspended (provisionally), their firm is shuttered, there’s a police investigation, lenders are…
This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on September 30, 2019 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Try a FREE three-week trial of The Teaching Professor! It is often said that much, if not most, of communication comes not in what we say but in how we say it. We might say something that…
While predicted for over a decade, the death of the traditional college textbook industry really began in 2016. This was the year that three major textbook publishers—Pearson, Cengage and McGraw-Hill among them—reported multi-million dollar losses as their market share decreased from 46 percent to 33 percent. One of the most important reasons for this rapid…