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Cuomo and company declare open season on higher education

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Cuomo takes aim at college-branded credit cards.From the Chronicle of Higher Education

New Issue: AAC&U's "On Campus with Women"

Education                   This                   issue of On Campus with Women considers the many ways that women in higher education are forming alliances with their global peers to improve educational opportunities for their students and for girls and women across nations. READ MORE  FEATURES:                                       Susan E. Lennon, executive director of the Women's                     College Coalition, discusses the need to educate women in                     the areas of leadership and advocacy as the world becomes                     increasingly complex.                    Nina Rabin, director of border research, Southwest Institute                     for Research on Women, writes on her work utilizing the research                     and education capabilities at the University of Arizona to improve conditions for immigrant                     women while also providing students with a unique education                     in globalization.                                   ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:         The                 Director's Outlook by Caryn McTighe Musil links today's global educational initiatives with earlier forms of women's activism.                   Gladys Brown asks three colleagues about the kind of information necessary to build successful multicultural alliances with women.                                      Aisha Bilkhair traces the history of women's education in the United Arab Emirates.                                      For                   Your Bookshelf features six                   new books, including Women's Labor in the Global Economy:                   Speaking in Multiple Voices and The Making of Our Bodies,                   Ourselves: How Feminism Travels Across Borders                                       If you have  difficulty viewing this e-mail, please paste www.aacu.org/ocww into your Web browser to view the entire publication. To unsubscribe, click here.                 AAC&U | 1818 R Street NW | Washington, DC 20009 | 202-387-3760 | www.aacu.org | news@aacu.org

NACUA One-Day CLE on Overseas Business

April One-Day CLE Workshop

Legal Issues in Organizing & Operating Overseas Programs

Friday, April 11, 2008

The Peabody Memphis Hotel

Memphis, TN

 

Special Rate for Multiple Attendees

NACUA is pleased to offer a special rate for multiple attendees from the same member institution.  Once a member attorney has registered, additional attorneys and administrators from the same institution may register at a special, reduced registration rate of $199.  Click here to register!  Feel free to invite your Director of International Education or other administrators involved in your overseas programming to this specialized workshop.

 

About the Program
This one-day program will review the key issues in establishing and operating college and university international programs, including:

• Getting Started: An Overview of Issues to Consider When Planning Overseas Programs

• Student Safety, Security, Health and Medical Issues

• Employment Issues in Overseas Programs

• Immigration, Compensation and Contract Issues

• Risk Management Issues
• Conducting Research and Sponsored Programs Overseas

• Student Affairs Issues in Overseas Programs

• Operating Programs in China: Opportunities and Challenges

• Legal Ethics Issues and Potential Conflicts for Counsel

Click here to view a detailed program schedule. Please join your NACUA colleagues and an experienced group of NACUA panelists for this in-depth look at the key legal, risk management and compliance issues in college and university overseas programs.

 

Who Should Attend?

This program will be of interest to college and university counsel responsible for legal issues related study abroad and other overseas programs. The Campus administrators who may benefit from the program include study abroad coordinators, senior administrators with line responsibility for international programs, managers of international and study abroad programs, campus risk managers, human resources administrators, and business affairs managers, and other academic administrators with responsibility for overseas programs. After reviewing the program schedule, members may wish to consider inviting these or other administrators on their campus to join them for the program.

 

Publications

We are pleased to offer discounts on selected NACUA publications to all Workshop Registrants.  Click here for additional information and to access the publications order form. 

 

Hotel Accommodations

The Peabody Memphis

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Memphis, TN

To make reservations at the NACUA conference rate of $189 per night (single/double) please call (901) 529-4000 by Friday, March 21.  Cancellations must be made by 6:00 p.m. the day before arrival to avoid penalty.

 

Questions about this workshop or an upcoming NACUA event? Contact Meredith McMillan at 202-833-8390 or via email at mmc@nacua.org.

 

 

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NAFSA Pre-Conference Workshops and Other Events

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Management Development Program, May 25-27, 2008  

Advance Registration by March 2 — $675 NAFSA Member; $800 Nonmember

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Do you need the opportunity to develop into a better manager? The Management Development Program will aid in your pursuit of excellence. You will acquire a comprehensive, applied view of management in an international education context. The curriculum employs case studies to introduce directors and new managers to helpful frameworks and models through which their own experiences can be analyzed. The program will focus on how you can adapt your personal management style to the people you supervise and to your institution, build interpersonal and political management skills, handle conflict, help your staff focus on quality, and manage change. Limited to 36 participants in each class (two classes available).These spaces fill quickly, so register now!

 

Conference Symposium on Leadership, May 27, 2008

Advance Registration by March 2 — $225 NAFSA Member; $350 Nonmember

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Now in its seventh year, this half-day symposium on leadership will address "Knowledge of the Home Institution"--a critical need for those who occupy leadership positions and contribute significantly to campus internationalization and policy formation. The theme, Excavating the Layers of Institutional Culture: A Key to Internationalization, will present two frameworks of culture, one from the higher education perspective and one that focuses on the "shadow side" elements. A panel of distinguished and accomplished campus leaders will relate these frameworks to their own experience in managing internationalization in a variety of U.S. institutions.

 

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Questions? E-mail: PFL@nafsa.org or call 202.737.3699

 

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Job-posting tips from Inside Higher Ed

These days it's easy to plop the information from your jobs database onto a job board and call it a recruitment ad. But unless your job postings sell your openings to terrific applicants, you're wasting time and money. Are your job postings guilty of one of the three key mistakes that turn off top candidates?

1. Terrible titles. Using the job title from your HR database is certainly easy. But robot titles like "Residential Ser Bus Man/Gen Account" (spotted on a college job page recently) or "FT 12 Mo Faculty - 2020A" (running on Inside Higher Ed today) will not induce a talented human to click on your posting.
2. Boring basics. Lots of ads start with l! ong lists of information useful only to your HR database: job number, classification code, job status...yawn. In an online posting you have two lines to capture someone's imagination so start with the reason great candidates want the job.
3. Rote requirements. Of course you need to communicate the job qualifications and the process for applying - but frame your requirements in candidate-centric terms.  Instead of "duties include..." say "you'll have the opportunity to..." Instead of "Qualifications include..." how about "to succeed in this position you'll need..."  Think of your ad text as a letter to the person you want to hire.

A little creativity will make your job postings more effective at attracting the great candidates you want to hire. Get more tips for writing effective postings.

And here's one more great idea for attracting top candidates: post your jobs with Inside Higher Ed - the free daily news Web site for people who work in higher education. Reach our 400,000+ readers with a 30-day posting for just $150.  Click here to post now.

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DOE announces action plan for higher ed transparency

Higher Education Update

In September 2006, Secretary Spellings announced her action plan to make higher education in the U.S. more accessible, affordable, and accountable.

News, Speeches

• Secretary Spellings delivered the keynote address at the National Legislative Summit of the Association of Community College Trustees and the American Association of Community Colleges in Washington, D.C. (Feb 12, 2008)
• Secretary Spellings discussed her action plan for higher education during her keynote address at the Greater Houston Partnership 2008 State of Education Luncheon. (Feb 8, 2008)
• Secretary Spellings underscored the importance of transparency and accountability in higher education at a meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity. (Dec 18, 2007)
• Secretary Spellings announced final regulations to increase transparency and protect borrower choice in the federal financial aid program. (Nov 1, 2007)
• Secretary Spellings announced first year data results for Academic Competitiveness and National SMART Grants. (Oct 26, 2007)
• Secretary Spellings announced an award of $2.45 million to higher education associations to provide reliable and valid measures for assessing postsecondary student learning.  (Sep 28, 2007)
• Secretary Spellings issued a statement on the signing of the College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007. (Sep 27, 2007)
• College Navigator helps you find colleges based on location, programs, tuition, distance learning, evening courses, and more. Save your favorites and compare up to four colleges. (Sep 25, 2007)
• In a letter, Secretary Spellings asked colleges, lenders, and guarantee agencies to "act now to assure students and parents that we have their best interests at heart in providing competitive student loans" (Aug 9, 2007).
• Secretary Spellings spoke at the regional higher education summit in Boston (Jun 14, 2007).
• Secretary Spellings called for a comprehensive higher ed reauthorization law at the first regional summit in Kansas City (Jun 4, 2007).
• Secretary Spellings hosted a summit on higher education and announced a college planning tool (Mar 22-23, 2007).
• Secretary Spellings announced a task force on student loans and issued a statement in response to a congressional hearing on the student loan industry (Apr 24-25, 2007).
• Accreditation Forum (Nov 29, 2006)
• Federal Student Aid Conference (Nov 28, 2006)
• Additional Speeches

Video

• Secretary Spellings discusses the importance of making college affordable for all families (Feb 2007).
• Visit the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—a model for making college affordable (Mar 2007).

Announcement of Action Plan (Sep 26, 2006)

See the press release, text and webcast of the announcement, photos, President's statement, and audio clips.

Documents

• Action Plan for Higher Education (fact sheet)
• Myth vs. Fact
• Op-Eds

Office of the Under Secretary

The Office of the Under Secretary (OUS) is responsible for helping implement the Secretary's Action Plan for Higher Education.

Commission on the Future of Higher Education

• Final Report — A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of Higher Education (2006)
• Commission Website

Buckley as historian and scholar: a sample

From FOreign Affairs (1980)