Archive for February, 2012

What can I do with a B.A. in Arts Administration? Should I Choose the music or theater concentration?

What can I do with a Bachelor of Arts degree in the military?

Psychology and Philosophy degree?

University of Calgary: Alberta competes in the search for global talent

Apple in the $500 Billion Club — Can It Hit $1 Trillion?Daily Ticker

Apple crossed an amazing milestone in after-market trading yesterday, when its market capitalization exceeded $500 …

Article source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/university-calgary-alberta-competes-search-161800186.html

Howard University gets new director and familiar face at its libraries

Some people don’t understand the meaning of retirement. And Howard Dodson, Jr., the new director of the Howard University Libraries and its flagship Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, is a prime candidate for that category.
Howard Dodson Jr., the new head of the Howard University Libraries
(Photo by Justin Knight, courtesy of Howard University)

In April 2010, Dodson retired from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City after 25 years at its helm. Rather than settle in for some leisure time, in July 2011, he became a consultant to the Howard system. Earlier this month took on the challenging full-time job of managing a book-based system that has to move quickly into the digital age.

“The university libraries are being challenged to find some way of repositioning themselves not as gatekeepers, but as gateways to authentic knowledge,” said Dodson, 72.

The scholars and amateur historians who specialize in black history are very familiar with Dodson. In New York he oversaw the world-famous Schomburg collection, part of the New York Public Library. It is a prime destination for material on Malcolm X, Arthur Ashe, Lorraine Hansbery, Maya Angelou and St. Clair Drake. The library has more than 10 million items.

Dodson has also moved in and out of Washington’s cultural life as a former Peace Corps volunteer and a member of the national staff. He was a member of the commission that recommended building the National Museum of African American History and Culture and a former consultant to the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The Howard libraries have 2.5 million volumes. But the Moorland center has always rivaled the Schomburg in prestige. In its collections are decades of black newspapers, papers from Benjamin Banneker, W.C. Handy, Ralph Bunche, Paul Robeson, Charles Drew, Vernon Jordan, Edward Brooke and E. Franklin Frazier.

Dodson says the libraries have been languishing.

“With Howard specifically one of the challenges is how to better align its collections and services with the research agenda of the university and the curriculum,” said Dodson. In recent years the Moorland-Spingarn center reduced the purchase of books, reduced its operating hours and has been administered by an interim director.

With belt-tightening everywhere, Howard only invested $8 million in the libraries in 2010. “The numbers for its peer organizations in the same year was $14 to $40 million. In 1986 Howard’s libraries ranked among the top 25 percent of the research institutions. Today they are at the bottom,” Dodson explained.

To address the needs for newer materials, the libraries have joined the Washington Research Consortium Library, an effort of nine library systems. Dodson plans to increase the days the library is open to all researchers and launch a capital campaign, not only to modernize, but to serve the university’s population of black specialists and the outside scholars who are studying black culture, the sciences and organizations.

And, of course, catch up with the march to digitization. “It is a high priority to get on line. The library has such important collections, collections that are strong and rich and we need to get them processed,” said Dodson.

Article source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/arts-post/post/howard-university-gets-new-director-and-familiar-face-at-its-libraries/2012/02/29/gIQADTqMiR_blog.html?wprss=rss_style

University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center Launches $250 Million National Initiative to Accelerate New Drug …

CLEVELAND, Feb. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center has announced a $250 million initiative that promises to dramatically change how drugs will advance from discovery in the laboratories to commercialization, resulting in greater access to advanced treatments and cures for patients. The first-of-its-kind initiative, named The Harrington Project for Discovery Development, is powered by a $50 million gift - the largest donation in the health system’s history – from the Harrington family, recognized entrepreneurs and philanthropists in Cleveland.

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UH Chief Executive Officer Thomas F. Zenty III announced to more than 1,000 community members that, “For almost 150 years, University Hospitals has placed a strong emphasis on translational research and personalized medicine in order to realize our mission: ‘To Heal. To Teach. To Discover.’ Through this pivotal gift from the Harrington family, we are creating a bold new pathway for physician-scientists who are inspired by their patients to discover and create novel therapies.”

The Harrington Project includes a new clinical research initiative, University Hospitals Harrington Discovery Institute, and a new mission-aligned development company. Aligning the entities will, for the first time at an academic medical center, provide a comprehensive model to advance discoveries into development and create novel drugs and therapies for patient care. The Harrington Project provides a unique structure for entrepreneurial physician-scientists to focus on the discovery process and enable them to advance their promising therapies into the clinical development pipeline for the benefit of individuals and communities worldwide.

“We are very excited to support University Hospitals in what we see as a national model that will bring new drugs to the market to help patients with heart disease, cancer and other health conditions,” said Ron Harrington. “Our personal experience with University Hospitals and seeing first-hand how discovery can advance patient care led us to be part of this innovative project.”

For the last decade, American medicine has been challenged in developing new medicines.  Lacking government and investor funding and partnerships with pharmaceutical companies, many research discoveries are unable to advance into clinical development. 

“The current system nationally has been flawed, and we believe this new initiative is the solution. One of the challenges that we have today is that many biomedical discoveries end up staying on the shelf; they never get commercialized,” said Achilles A. Demetriou, MD, PhD, UH Chief Operating Officer. “Through The Harrington Project, we are providing a mechanism for physician-scientists to function in a structured environment where they can be challenged, coached and supported to develop their insights into therapies.”

UH Harrington Discovery Institute: The Home for Physician-Scientists

The UH Harrington Discovery Institute will provide funding, mentoring, and an infrastructure to advance breakthrough, patient-inspired clinical research projects. In addition to the Harrington family’s gift to establish the UH Harrington Discovery Institute, University Hospitals during the past several years has invested more than $100 million in physician-scientist development and continues its investment.

The UH Harrington Discovery Institute is assembling an advisory panel made up of internationally renowned clinician-scientist leaders in medicine to select the first 10 Harrington Scholars this year. Harrington Scholars will receive significant funding in two-year intervals. Harrington Scholars will be provided with focused direction on the steps necessary to move a discovery forward through early stage research to clinical development, training not currently provided to physician-scientists.

“The UH Harrington Discovery Institute will become the home for enterprising physician-scientists committed to discoveries and patient care,” added Dr. Demetriou. “We believe that our unique environment, the attraction of entrepreneurial physician-scientists as well as an additional mechanism for commercialization of the technology is a combination which hasn’t been attempted before.”

The open design of the Institute – based at UH Case Medical Center in Cleveland’s University Circle – will allow for collaboration with major academic medical centers across the country. UH Case Medical Center is a nationally recognized academic medical center and is the primary affiliate of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

The Creation of a Novel Commercialization Vehicle: Bringing Discoveries to Market

As part of the Harrington Project, a mission-aligned vehicle for commercialization has been created to develop the discoveries made by Harrington Scholars as well as other academic researchers.  The company, with a CEO and management team in place, has raised its initial capital and is in the process of attracting additional investors and evaluating programs with an initial capital plan of more than $100 million.

“The Harrington Project recognizes the importance of rethinking the discovery and development process from start to finish, with nationally acclaimed physician-scientists at the core of a bold model,” said Jonathan S. Stamler, MD, the newly named Director of the UH Harrington Discovery Institute and Director of the Institute for Transformative Molecular Medicine at UH Case Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. “As a result of this new model, we get an accelerated, focused discovery process that will benefit society at large.”

The company will build a portfolio of high value, early-stage development programs and will leverage the extensive insights and networks of national scientific and commercial advisory boards.  It will advance programs to a stage of clinical development that will attract additional financial and industry partners.  The company will be formally announced later this year.

“Our academic medical center – University Hospitals Case Medical Center – has long been recognized for our contributions to clinical research and delivering the most advanced technological and innovative care,” added Mr. Zenty. “The Harrington Project will elevate the physician-scientists’ role in finding the cures of tomorrow with University Hospitals Case Medical Center playing an extraordinary role.”

For more information, go to: www.UHHarringtonDiscoveryInstitute.org

About the Donors

The Harrington family has a passion for finding entrepreneurial solutions to pressing problems. Today, the family is taking on two major intersecting challenges: accelerating the discovery and development of medical breakthroughs, and enabling physicians across the nation to play critical roles in the process.

Ron and Nancy Harrington, their daughter, Jill, and son and daughter-in-law, Ron and Lydia, donated $22.6 million in 2008 to establish the University Hospitals Harrington Heart Vascular Institute.  It is among the largest gifts in the country to a cardiovascular institute. The Institute is dedicated to the development of innovative technologies and clinical advancements for the prevention, early diagnosis and treatment of heart disease. It led to the recruitment of a team of internationally and nationally known cardiovascular experts as well as an investment in the development of significant new breakthroughs in preventing and treating heart disease.

The family resides in Hudson, Ohio; the entire family has been involved in the acquisition, growth, and sale of Edgepark Medical, the nation’s leading mail-order provider of medical supplies.

About University Hospitals

University Hospitals serves the needs of patients through an integrated network of hospitals, outpatient centers and primary care physicians.  At the core of our health system is University Hospitals Case Medical Center. The primary affiliate of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, UH Case Medical Center is home to some of the most prestigious clinical and clinical research centers of excellence in the nation and the world, including cancer, pediatrics, women’s health, orthopaedics and spine, radiology and radiation oncology, neurosurgery and neuroscience, cardiology and cardiovascular surgery, organ transplantation and human genetics. Its main campus includes the internationally celebrated UH Rainbow Babies Children’s Hospital, ranked among the top children’s hospitals in the nation; UH MacDonald Women’s Hospital, Ohio’s only hospital for women; and UH Seidman Cancer Center, part of the NCI-designated Case Comprehensive Cancer Center. For more information, go to www.uhhospitals.org.

Article source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/university-hospitals-uh-case-medical-170000568.html

Innovation and Community Colleges

Throughout his administration, President Obama has made higher education a priority. As far back as 2009, Obama lamented America’s nearly 40 percent college dropout rate. More recently, the president called a college degree “an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford.”

I don’t doubt that the president is entirely correct with his prognosis of our dire higher education graduation rate. What concerns me is whether he is going about solving this problem in the right way. In other words, if the unemployment rate among new graduates is 8.9%, is the problem really that not enough Americans are getting college degrees?

Representing more than 2,200 innovation-driven companies, I often hear CEOs lament they can’t find the skilled people to hire. Their reason is not that there aren’t enough college-educated applicants. Rather, it’s because the skills students learn at most four-year institutions are not applicable for their innovation-centric companies.

Too often four-year colleges and universities produce degrees that have little real-world value and do not match the skills required by American employers. While degrees in the liberal arts (humanities, anthropology, psychology, etc.) represent interesting, if not difficult, pursuits, they are often not useful in getting jobs. And I say this is as pysch major!

The Georgetown Center released a series of relevant reports on this issue. The study, “Help Wanted: Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements Through 2018,” found that college degrees often do not match available jobs. The report argues that students should align their postsecondary educational choices with available careers. But many four-year institutions require a base of education that covers everything from literature to biology to history, which pushes the length of one’s college career beyond what they need for a job.

Don’t get me wrong. I respect a well-rounded education. But just because someone graduates with a degree from a four-year institution doesn’t automatically mean that they are “educated.” As my dentist told me recently, every winter break he is swamped by college freshmen returning home from their four-year schools with multiple cavities as they fall prey to the carbs and sugars from excessive alcohol and junk food, and forsake basic dental hygiene. The four-year, away-from-home-for-the-first-time college experience is quite different than the experience at a local community college.

And while four-year colleges might dominate the discussions of “college” in America, millions of Americans, community colleges provide real, practical training to millions. According to the American Association of Community Colleges, whose data is from 2005, some 6.5 million students took credit at community colleges. Most post-high-school education for blacks and Hispanics is at the community college level. Some two-thirds of community college students attend part-time and the average age is 29.

Yet we hear little from the media or government about the importance, innovation and value coming from these schools. I recently participated in a Florida conference with some 300 leaders from community colleges where we discussed the most innovative community college programs and ideas. There I learned from Houston Community College’s Chancellor Mary Spangler about innovative programs in such areas as tele-medicine, STEM education and learning via mobile telephone. I heard about a community college in Kansas graduating airplane mechanics (much in demand these days) and about programs which can fill the gap between the open jobs and the willing job seekers.

I left that conference convinced that we need a national change in mind set. We need a vision for employment and innovation where we elevate the skilled, the creative and the willing and we de-emphasize the expensive four-year degree. In other words, let’s recognize that our nation’s place in the world was earned by our parents and their grandparents, most of whom did not have four-year degrees.

This is not to deemphasize the importance of higher education. Rather, it’s to argue that the four-year college/university industry is failing to prepare its students for the needs of 21^st Century workforce. Not only is the education provided substandard, students leave with a mountain of debt. According to College Measures, almost 5 percent of students at four-year institutions eventually default on their student loans.

Rather than emphasize the four-year degree as an entitlement, as the president has done, our national goal should be a skilled, hard-working, employable work force meeting our competitive and operational needs. Community colleges are the door to opportunity for millions of Americans and we should be encouraging those programs and schools that train Americans for the jobs of the future.

Gary Shapiro is president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the U.S. trade association representing more than 2,000 consumer electronics companies, and author of the New York Times bestselling book, “The Comeback: How Innovation Will Restore the American Dream.”

Article source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/garyshapiro/2012/02/29/innovation-and-community-colleges-the-overlooked-national-asset/?feed=rss_home

In Effort to Help Make College More Affordable, Rasmussen College Reduces Tuition in Medical Administration Program

BLOOMINGTON, Minn., Feb. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Rasmussen College, a regionally-accredited postsecondary institution, announced today it will be lowering the price of its Medical Administration degree program in Minnesota by 11 percent from $395 per credit to $350. The tuition decrease will go into effect beginning with April 2012 classes.

“Our goal as a career-focused and student-centric institution of higher learning is to ensure that our students obtain the most value from their education at Rasmussen College, which in turn can result in a career of stability and security,” Rasmussen College Chief Executive Officer Tom Slagle said. “Rasmussen College is committed to making the necessary adjustments to help reduce costs in key areas that will place academic and career goals closer in reach. Our reduction in tuition for our Medical Administration degree program is just one more example of our commitment to student success.”

In his State of the Union address, President Obama emphasized the important responsibility shared by the federal government, states, colleges and universities to promote access and affordability in higher education. According to his “Blueprint for Keeping College Affordable and Within Reach for All Americans,” this can be achieved by reigning in college costs, providing value for American families, and preparing students with a solid education to succeed in their careers.

In early 2011, Rasmussen College lowered the credit cost of its Medical Assisting Associate’s degree program to $310 per credit. In October, Rasmussen College announced the launch of its new online, AcceleratED Bachelor Completer program designed specifically to help adult students complete their Bachelor’s degree in order to advance their career. The fully online program offers an accelerated course completion that enables students to finish their degree in as little as 18 months. Tuition is priced affordably at $260 per credit.

“We are focused on ensuring that our students receive a high quality education that’s affordable, and that will provide them with the foundation they need to have a successful career. This is the value that students will receive at Rasmussen College, and the foundation of our Support+ network of services and tools in place that help our students become even more successful,” Slagle said.

According to the College Board‘s Trends in College Pricing 2011 report, in-state tuition and fees at public four-year institutions are averaging 8.3 percent higher in 2011-2012 than they did in 2010-2011. Tuition and fees at public, two-year colleges averaged 8.7 percent higher in this same timeframe. However, while an 8.3 percent increase was the average amongst public four-year colleges and universities, 20 percent of full-time students attend institutions that increased their tuition prices by 12 percent or more.

Slagle concluded, “With the growing student debt crisis, it is our responsibility as an educational institution to make certain that we are constantly reviewing and analyzing the impact that tuition has on future financial stability. We owe that to our students.”

For more information on Rasmussen College and our Medical Administration program, visit www.Rasmussen.edu.

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ABOUT RASMUSSEN COLLEGE
An innovator of higher education, Rasmussen College is a regionally-accredited, private college that specializes in offering the most in-demand degree programs in a highly supportive, student-centered educational environment.  Rasmussen College offers market-relevant programs from the certificate and diploma level through the associate’s and bachelor’s level online and across its 22 campuses in the Midwest and Florida to more than 15,000 students. By combining its expertise in career development with high academic standards and with unparalleled student support services, graduates of Rasmussen College leave with the most up-to-date knowledge, the skills that employers look for, and the tools to succeed in their chosen field.  Since 1900, the primary focus at Rasmussen College has remained constant: student achievement is of the utmost importance, the employer who hires its students continues to be a valued partner, and Rasmussen College is dedicated to being a primary contributor to the growth and development of the communities it serves. For more information about Rasmussen College, please visit www.Rasmussen.edu.

Article source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/effort-help-college-more-affordable-150000179.html

New Three-Year Degree Programs Trim College Costs

Would you sacrifice part of the proverbial best four years of your life to cut costs?

Paying eight semesters’ worth of tuition, room and board, textbooks, and other fees can add up to tens of thousands of dollars–and that’s only if you finish college in four years. For about 60 percent of students, the college experience takes at least another semester before graduation.

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But some schools offer or are planning to debut new, fast-track bachelor’s degree programs that only hit families’ wallets for three years.

In fall 2011, schools including Grace College and Seminary, Baldwin-Wallace College, Lesley University, and St. John’s University introduced three-year degree programs, according to a running list created by the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU). And the programs are increasingly being explored, both by prospective institutions and college-bound students and parents, says NAICU’s Director of Communications Tony Pals.

“The economic downturn has encouraged more students and families to consider the three-year option, and for academically well prepared and highly focused students, these programs can be very attractive,” Pals says. “These programs can represent a significant cost savings for consumers.”

In an effort to become more affordable, officials at Grace College originally toyed with discounting tuition, Provost William Katip says. But fearing that such a move may seem too “gimmicky,” Katip says the school instead revamped the curriculum and calendar to accommodate three-year graduation plans for its 50 undergraduate majors. For three years, students take more, short courses during the fall and spring semesters, and any credits taken in the summer are free (save for a $125 technology fee). Based on the school’s accounting, the plan can save students up to 50 percent on college, between costs they don’t pay and salaries they could begin to earn a year early.

“Twenty-five percent is saving a whole year right up front,” Katip figures. “The other 25 percent: Our annual tuition is very close to what our first-year graduates make. The fact is, you’re out working and you’ve got one year of earnings.” Students with financial need would also be spared a year of college loans, he adds.

Rather than entering the workforce a year early, other students in three-year degree programs may use the extra year to head to graduate school sooner. That’s one potential avenue for students in the new three-year Global Scholars degree program American University started in fall 2011.

The 57 students in the university’s inaugural Global Scholars program “may save a little bit” of money, but the real impetus behind the three-year program was to offer a new challenge to ambitious and driven students, says Lyn Stallings, interim vice provost for undergraduate studies at AU. The university plans to offer at least one more three-year degree program, focused on politics, policy, and law, in 2014, she says.

The thought of earning a college degree in three years initially terrified American University freshman Isabelle Rodas, but the combination of financial aid and an accelerated path to a future in international relations was too hard to turn down.

“There’s so much that I want to do–I don’t have time to be spending years and years in college,” says Rodas, who hopes to complete a master’s degree (area to be determined) in what would otherwise have been her senior year. “When I saw this was a three-year program with a master’s in four years, it was perfect.”

Of course, students don’t have to be enrolled in a specific three-year program to work their way to an early graduation or accelerated master’s degree. For Ted Griffith, four years at Vanderbilt University yielded both a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s degree in finance after he realized that hard work and diligent planning could shave time off his college experience.

“My parents said they would pay for four years of college; they just didn’t say which four,” says Griffith, who has since started Direct His Publishing, a textbook publisher. When Mom and Dad agreed to fund a master’s degree in his fourth year, “That was really helpful for me to say, ‘Hey, let’s get a move on and do something a little bigger, a little better.’

“Technically, we did end up paying for four years of college,” Griffith notes. But “if you think of it just as undergrad, I saved a good bit of money that way.”

[Find out how some colleges help students go directly to graduate school.]

For some students, however, the cost savings might not be a worthy trade-off for the potential pitfalls of an accelerated degree.

“The downside is that it gives students less opportunity to explore different academic options, which could be a challenge for those students who go into college not quite sure of the direction they want to head,” NAICU’s Pals says.

Knowing that a degree in economics was the path he really wanted to pursue helped Griffith finish early at Vanderbilt, he says. And having a firm grasp on your future goals is a crucial point for admittance to the American University plan, too.

“It’s a three-year program, which means that [students] should really have an idea of what they want their major to be right away,” American’s Stallings says. “They are going to be taking their major courses very quickly.”

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Students might also want to consider whether they’ll feel like they’re missing out on senior year of college–though for AU student Rodas, what seemed a scary situation hasn’t turned out to be an issue.

“You think, ‘three years,’ and when I was asking [for] advice, everyone was like, ‘That’s so much pressure; how are you going to enjoy your youth and enjoy college?’” Rodas recounts. “I know that I’m getting the exact same experience. You definitely still do get the college feel.”

And for Rodas, at least, the perceived benefits outweigh any initial speculation.

“It’s incredible, because then you can go to graduate school faster, and you can be more competitive in today’s job market,” she says. “It was definitely the best decision I ever made, doing the three year program.”

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College costs: Time to rethink higher education

The best part about winter is that I no longer have to endure the fall conversations with parents about how well their freshmen are “fitting in” at college.

I may lose a few friends for saying so, but Americans are too concerned with whether their kids are “finding themselves” — at an average yearly tab of $17,100 (public, in-state) to $38,600 (private).

What we should be concerned about, in the words of Anthony Carnevale, director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, is the “misalignment between our education system and the labor market.” The latter, he notes, “is demanding much more specific preparation” than students get.

One word: Engineering

Whether you, your child, or both are financing college, to earn a decent return on that investment your student needs to base academic choices at least in part on employment trends. Universities, which have an interest in maintaining the status quo, aren’t leveling with families about which courses of study make the most financial sense. “We know more about this than we ever tell young people,” says Carnevale.

The plain truth is that if your child has the aptitude, he should pursue an engineering degree or study math and science. End of discussion.

Those majors can yield starting salaries of $90,000 and above. Accountants, actuaries, software developers, pharmacists, and nurses are also in high demand and highly compensated.

Of course, not everyone can or should go into those fields. And I’m not saying that the critical-thinking skills gained through a traditional liberal arts education aren’t valuable — but they won’t be enough.

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Soon 45% of all new U.S. jobs will require a bachelor’s degree and further career-specific training, or an undergraduate degree in a high-demand area. Today 25% of our workforce meets this benchmark.

Two words: Three years

Given the need and the expense of graduate training, you must think about condensing your child’s liberal arts degree into three years. It’s a model popular in Asia, particularly for students who will study law or medicine.

Some U.S. universities offer concentrated degrees or structured ways to shorten the time and money spent on a B.A. Others suggest summer classes as a means to that end.

Yes, there’s a risk to picking a course of study based on current data and projections. My wife’s minor in Japanese seemed like a great idea in the ’80s. Now it comes in handy at sushi restaurants. Fortunately for us, she majored in finance.

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Still, given what college costs, you want the best chance at your investment paying off. At the least, make sure your kid knows the highest-paid English majors aren’t poets; they’re technical writers.

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