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February 8, 2008
A Grant-Writing Workshop at Penn
Professional Grant Development Workshop
Master the techniques of writing superior and winning proposals
Proposal Writing I – February 18 – 20, 2008
University of Pennsylvania
Perelman Quadrangle
Philadelphia, PA
Sponsored by:
The Grant Training Center
(Online at: http://www.granttrainingcenter.com)
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The Sunshine Project's web notice
Here's the notice:
As of 1 February 2008, the Sunshine Project is suspending its operations.
Although this website is no longer updated, it remains online as an archive of our activities and publications from 2000 through 2008.
If you have any questions, please contact us by e-mail at tsp@sunshine-project.org.
Thank you for your interest.
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Sunshine Project suspends ops
From the Chronicle of Higher Education
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AAC&U calls for proposals
Call for Proposals -- Diversity, Learning, and Inclusive Excellence: Accelerating and Assessing Progress
October 16-18, 2008
Long Beach, California
Deadline for submission of proposals: March 13, 2008
Diversity, Learning, and Inclusive Excellence: Accelerating and Assessing Progress will highlight curricular, co-curricular, and institutional models that enable higher education leaders to develop, implement, assess, and continually learn from the experience of fostering diverse learning environments—environments in which all students develop, in increasingly sophisticated ways, critical knowledge, skills, and capacities for work and citizenship.
The conference aims to help campuses take diversity efforts to the next level of comprehensive, coordinated action, where educational benefits for all students and for the institution more broadly, can be demonstrated in meaningful ways. In this new conceptualization, progress is marked by the integration of diversity and educational quality efforts as well as a move from isolated programs and course offerings to a network of policies and actions, including policies and actions around assessment.
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Another Classroom Killing to Kick Off 2008
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When will these classroom killings stop?
By
Jim Castagnera
On Monday a crazy gunman opened fire in a Virginia Tech residence hall and a little later in a classroom across campus, killing some 30 people in what is being labeled “the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history.” The gunman subsequently was killed, bringing the death toll to 31. As I wrote this column, no one knew the murder’s motive.
Virginia Tech’s president was quoted by the Associated Press as saying, “Today the university was struck with a tragedy that we consider of monumental proportions. The university is shocked and indeed horrified."
In 21st century America we have almost come to accept these horrible mass murders as natural disasters. This community has been hit by a hurricane. That one has been torn up by a tornado. Oh, and that one over there has been blasted by a madman with a gun. The Tech student body no doubt will be afforded free access to “grief counselors.”
We used to say, "Everybody talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it." Should we now say, "Everybody talks about gun violence, but no one does anything about it?" Living here in suburban Philadelphia, I watched as the City of Brotherly Love averaged one homicide per day in 2006. Philly passed the 100-homicide mark during the first quarter of ’07, suggesting it well may be on its way to breaking last year’s record. Here, too, students are, often as not, counted among the innocent victims of gun violence gone out of control.
Yeh, I know… guns don't kill people, people kill people. But these killers are better armed than ever before. When I was a Franklin and Marshall College student a lifetime ago, I witnessed plenty of fights, often of the town v. gown variety. A group of fraternity punks, such as myself, might get a bit rowdy in a local tavern. The blue-collar crowd at the opposite end of the bar might take umbrage. The upshot might then be a quick exchange of fisticuffs. On a rare occasion a knife or a broken bottle could come into play.
My point is: almost nobody carried a gun.
By contrast today, if you are confronted by a belligerent bar fly, run for your car.
Odds are better than even the guy is packing.
No need to look for trouble in a local bar, however. Virginia Tech is not the only school where guns have gotten into classrooms. Just last year a local high school student entered one of our county’s Catholic high schools, discharged his father’s AK-47, then shot himself. We could only be grateful that the troubled youth didn’t first kill his classmates, making Delaware County the scene of a new Columbine massacre.
The Canadian college professor, Marshall McLuhan - best known during my college days for saying "The medium is the message" - asserted that Americans live in "Bonanzaland," i.e., the Wild West of the 1880s. Well, folks, that time is long past. Our K-12 schools have rightly adopted zero-tolerance policies toward weapons in their halls and classrooms. Colleges, too, have clamped down on violence --- even the fisticuffs of my era.
Obviously, this isn’t enough.
Neither are grief counselors enough.
The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution may give us all the right to bear arms… though some judges and scholars have questioned the Supreme Court’s reading of that bit of the Bill of Rights. Regardless of what rights we want to read into the Second Amendment, I say our daughters and sons have a higher right: to enjoy and benefit from their educations without looking over their shoulders and wondering whether today is the day their classroom is riddled with bullets.
I don’t have the answer, folks. I just know in my guts that, until we dispense with the grief counselors and the platitudes, and get mad as hell about travesties like this latest massacre at Virginia Tech, the killing is just going to continue.
Read more of my opinions at www.lulu.com.
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Some students think more guns are the answer!
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Some people answer "yes" to this question (see above)
Are More Guns the Answer?
By
Jim Castagnera
In the red wake of the horrible tragedy at Virginia Tech in which more than 30 students died at the hands of a single crazed shooter, weirdness rules. On a number of college campuses across the country last week, sick hoaxes emptied dorms and classrooms. The weirdest sequel of all, however, was a call by the Virginia Citizens Defense League to permit students over 21 to carry concealed weapons.
VCDL’s President Phillip Van Cleave was quoted by the media as contending, “Imagine what would happen if the gunman was lining people up and somebody had pulled a gun and shot him in the head --- this would be over,” Never mind that the Virginia Tech killer reportedly entered classrooms randomly and just started spraying bullets. Would the result, if other students had been packing, more likely have been a sort of gunfight at the OK Corral?
More significant are these statistics for 2004, the most recent year for which comprehensive data is available on the web:
• Of 29,569 gun deaths in the U.S., 16,750 (56%) were suicides.
• Among 26 industrial countries, 86% of all gun deaths involving children occurred in the U.S.
• A gun kept in a home was 22 times more likely to be used in a domestic homicide, an accidental shooting, or a suicide than to be used in self-defense.
These stats from the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence [http://www.ichv.org/Statistics.htm] suggest that arming all adults, as the VCDL proposal implies, will result in more shootings, not fewer.
Compared to America’s 29,000+ gun deaths in 2004, the United Kingdom reported 163 gun deaths in 2003. Most West European countries, as well as Japan, recorded similarly low incidents of gun-related injury and death. Why? In my humble opinion, it’s mainly because people in those countries don’t have easy access to guns.
Similar to VCDL’s crackpot notion that students over 21 should be authorized to carry concealed firearms is the notion, floated every time a students dies of alcohol poisoning, that the solution is to lower the drinking age to 18. Here it’s the proponents who have the advantage where our European cousins are concerned.
Yes, most European nations have lower drinking ages than the U.S. To my way of thinking, several crucial differences argue against going down the European path of low (or non-existent) drinking ages. First, the U.S. lacks the centuries’ old Continental tradition of treating wine and beer as common items on the lunch and dinner table. Our kids simply aren’t reared to consider alcoholic beverages as commonplace components of every meal.
Second, most Continental kids, like most European adults, especially in urban areas, rely on public transportation. Drunk driving isn’t the threat across the pond that it is in America, where even 16-year-olds have easy access to wheels.
Last but not least, our Euro cousins aren’t armed the way we are. Even the most avid firearm proponent would agree, I think, that booze and bullets don’t mix.
We’d all love a simple solution to the mindless carnage that occurs annually due to firearms and alcohol abuse. Living uncomfortably close to a city which averages in excess of one homicide per day, I would welcome a quick, painless remedy as much as the next guy.
Unfortunately, making firearms and alcohol more easily accessible to young adults is no silver bullet.
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What's wrong with these students? A few thoughts:
A Generation of Fragile Fighters
By
Jim Castagnera
Attorney at Large
They fight with one another. They mutilate themselves. Sometimes they even commit suicide. The Greentree Gazette, a higher education magazine for which I write, recently called them “The Fragile Generation.” A competitor, the Chronicle of Higher Education, two weeks ago asked in a cover story “Are We Facing an Epidemic of Self-Injury?”
Both publications were referring to today’s young men and women of high school and college age. At Springfield Township High School in suburban Philadelphia a young man --- reportedly a model teen --- walked into the building, shot off a burst or two from an AK-47, then turned it fatally on himself. Described as an Eagle Scout, a volunteer firefighter and an “All American Boy,” the 16-year-old was apparently upset about declining grades. His solution: to pack his father’s assault rifle into a duffle bag and set yet another school tragedy in motion.
The question of why any father outside of Iraq owns an AK-47 aside, the boy contributed to a grim statistic. Suicide is the third most frequent cause of death among America’s 15-24 year-olds, according to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. It’s the number two cause of death among college students. Teen suicides have tripled since 1965, now totally about 5,000 annually.
At least one source I consulted estimated 30-50 times as many attempts as successful suicides. This statistic is a tough one to verify. For one thing, what looks like an attempted suicide may be a cry for help. So many young people have engaged in cutting, burning or otherwise mutilating themselves that the phenomenon has its own label and acronym: self-injurious behavior, i.e., SIB. A Princeton University survey of some 3,000 randomly selected students found that 17 % --- almost one in five --- claimed to have purposely injured themselves with such things as safety pins, cigarettes, razor blades and scissors. Three-fourths of this group told the researchers they’d done it more than once. Someone with SIB is commonly called a “cutter.”
Just for the record, boys are more likely to go the whole nine yards, taking their own lives, while SIB is predominantly a chick thing.
Boys, of course, are also more likely to fight. Ever since the film “Fight Club” hit the silver screens in 1999, the weird phenomenon it postulated has become an underground pastime. The earliest reference to a campus fight club I can find comes from the May 21, 2000, edition of the London Independent. Under the byline of one Andrew Gumbel, writing from LA, the article claims, “Monday nights can be pretty uneventful in Provo, Utah, in the heart of America's Mormon country. Unless, that is, you join Fight Club. For several weeks, testosterone-laden young men from Provo's two universities, Brigham Young and Utah Valley State College, have been meeting in secret, stripping to the waist and pummeling each other senseless to the cheers and yelps of their peers. At first they met in college dorms, staging fights as a natural extension of initiation rites, but when the crowd reached unmanageable proportions they moved to parks, warehouses - anywhere they could inflict bruises, draw blood, and be noisy without drawing too much attention.” Fight clubs persist; I learned of one flourishing at a New Jersey college just last year.
So what’s gone wrong? Some educators say that students spend too much time relating to machines and with one another via machines. They grow up lacking social skills. Dr. Jean Twenge, author of “Generation Me,” has more than mere anecdotal information. She spent 13 years analyzing a dozen studies, spanning six decades, and including about 1.3 million youngsters. According to the Greentree Gazette, “Her analysis uncovered significant differences between the generation that is currently under 35 and earlier generations in America. With its many labels --- Generation Me, the Millennials, the Fragile Generation, the Strapped/Debt Generation --- these young men and women have been and are still being reared by parents who encourage them to ‘be yourself.’ Their school system aimed to build self-esteem and high expectations about their futures. No surprise that this generation, compared to earlier ones, scores high in narcissism or excessive self-focus.”
So, says Greentree, when self-importance and inflated expectations collide with reality on the campus or in a job search, anxiety and depression often follow. And what do anxious, depressed people do? Well, I guess they either hurt themselves or the folks around them.
If that’s so, the implication is staggering: our kids are being killed by our kindness. They are the potential victims of our society’s unprecedented success. In future blogs we’ll explore some of the legal implications of these phenomena.
Read more of my opinion at www.lulu.com
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The horror continues...
Three dead in shooting at Louisiana Tech in Baton Rouge.From UPI
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CIRP results suggest more helicopter parents for us lawyers to deal with
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CIRP Freshman Survey results released
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House passes bill that would renew Ed Act
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February 7, 2008
The Challenges of Doing Business in India
From the CHronicle of Higher Education
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Trolling for Students in India
THE INDUS FOUNDATION INC.
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Tel: (732) 205-9810
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Dear Dr.James O Castagnera,
SPECIAL INVITATION - SPRING 2008 EDUCATIONAL TOUR OF INDIA
India has the world’s second largest post-secondary student population of over 11 million. It is
expected that this number will double over the next 12 to 15 years. Faced with a growing demand
for post secondary education and limited resources, India is looking to the private sector and
foreign universities to bridge this expected shortage. Further, the Indian economy is transforming
into an international powerhouse requiring Indians to have the best possible educational
opportunities. Indian students are interested in degrees, diplomas, and certificates offered by
American and Canadian universities at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
The Indus Foundation is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to the promotion of higher
education for the growing student population of India. The Foundation is well established in India
for over 12 years, with its own extensive network of offices. It is committed to assisting
American and Canadian universities for collaborating with reliable Indian institutions for
offering their degree, diploma, and certificate programs in India. It assists American and
Canadian universities for offering distance education programs, developing twinning/transfer
programs, arranging study abroad in India programs, organizing study tours of India, and forging
academic partnerships with Indian institutions. It organizes recruiting events for enrolling
well-qualified and financially able Indian students in American and Canadian universities.
The Foundation is pleased to invite your institution on the Educational Tour of India for bringing
about collaborations with Indian Institutions and recruitment of Indian students. The tour is
scheduled from April 14 to 24, 2008 and will take the participants to the major educational cities
including New Delhi, Bangalore, Madras, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, and Vizag.
This invitation is extended to select institutions and the size of the tour is kept small.
Registration will be done on a "first come, first served" basis.Upon hearing from you, we shall
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Thanking you and with regards.
Mr.S.B.Anumolu
President
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February 6, 2008
Animal Rights: That's a Mouthful
Mother Nature Is Snapping Back
The headline caught my eye: “Hippo eats dwarf.”
The news item out of Bangkok reads, “A hippopotamus swallowed a circus
dwarf in a ‘freak accident’ in northern Thailand.” Od, the dwarf,
bounced sideways from his trampoline and was gulped down by a hippo
which, as luck had it, was “yawning” while waiting to appear in the
next act.
The vets concluded that Hilda the Hippo suffers from a gag reflex that
caused her to gulp poor Od right down. Meanwhile, more than 1000
spectators applauded wildly, apparently believing Hilda’s engorgement
of Od was a part of the act.
Like those 1000 misinformed circus-goers, most of humanity is missing
Mother Nature’s message. Not me… I’ve concluded that Hilda is just one
of Mother Nature’s messengers. Hurricane Katrina was another. When you
are paying $1.50 for an orange next month, you might consider that
California’s big freeze is yet another missive from “Mom.”
Love him or hate, Al Gore has been running around trying to warn us
with his movie, “An Inconvenient Truth.” That truth is that we’re
messing with Mother Nature and she’s getting steamed up. More extreme
storms, we’re told by our scientists, will be one result. I’ve begun to
believe them.
So far, however, neither Gore nor any scientists have warned us of
carnivorous hippos. Hilda came as a surprise, not least to Od, who — I
predict — will one day be remembered as the first death in the coming
clash between mankind and the animals. The National Science Foundation
or the Centers for Disease Control or one of the geniuses on our
college campuses should have predicted this. Consider the evidence.
• Deer are taking the offensive everywhere. As suburban sprawl and
retail malls replace forests and farms, deer have begun hurling
themselves at our cars in ever-increasing numbers. When will we
recognize that Bambi is Mother Nature’s version of Al Qaida’s suicide
bomber?
• As the polar icecap melts, polar bears are ranging ever-farther
south. If seals become scarce… well, most Americans now carry about as
much blubber as any walrus. Duh.
• All kinds of other critters, from cougars to coyotes, have been
quietly expanding their ranges. Wild pigs are popping out of the woods
all the way from Oregon in the west to towns like Tamaqua in eastern
Pennsylvania.
Given that half of all American homes are currently equipped with an
AK-47 or its functional equivalent, we can probably handle these
critter-incursions with a minimum of casualties on our side.
The real threat is from Mother Nature’s stealth bombers. Of course, I’m
referring to viruses. I just finished reading John M. Barry’s 2004
book, The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in
History. Most experts put the 1918-19 death toll at somewhere between
20 and 40 million. Barry believes it was several times higher, maybe as
high as 100 million. With no Centers for Disease Control in those days,
the statistics just can’t tell the whole story.
What we know for sure is that viruses, and especially the flu virus,
evolve at a dizzying pace, That’s why last year’s flu shot is no help
this year. When a flu virus accomplishes two things — the virulence of
the 1918 edition and the ability to leap from person to person — the
result will be another pandemic. With six billion-plus people cramming
the planet, our species is a sort of smorgasbord, laid out for that bug
when it arrives.
When that happens, we’ll know that “Mom” has stopped sending warnings and has gone to war.
Meanwhile, nobody can convince me — or Od, be he in heaven or hell — that Hilda was just yawning. No sir.
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IDs of researchers will be kept confidential...
... under Utah law aimed at combating alleged harassment by outfit called "Utah Primate Freedom."From the Utah Daily Chronicle
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Planet of the Apes?
Website of "Utah Primate Freedom"
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Boston equity outfit buys stake in Buffalo-based biz college
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Afghan Pres sez student unlikley to be executed
Press release from Reporters without Borders:
Afghanistan 6 February 2008
President Karzai tells delegation not to worry about journalist under sentence of death
Reporters Without Borders welcomes the undertakings given today by
President Hamid Karzai as regards Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh, the young
journalist who has been sentenced to death on a trumped-up charge of
distributing information that insulted Islam. Karzai told a delegation
of Afghan journalists that they had no reason to worry about him. "We want to believe that President
Karzai really is determined to find a rapid solution to this appalling
affair," the press freedom organisation said. "The death sentence
passed on Kambakhsh by a court in Mazar-i-Sharif is unworthy of
Afghanistan, whose constitution protects free expression. We call for
the case to be quickly transferred to Kabul and for the conviction to
be quashed." Reporters Without Borders added: "This
new abuse of the blasphemy law should prompt the Afghan authorities to
find a way to provide better protection for freedom of expression, one
that will be effective even when subjects as sensitive as religion are
involved." The delegation from the Afghanistan
Independent Journalists Association that met President Karzai today in
Kabul briefed him about the case and asked him to intervene. Rahimullah
Samandar, a member of the delegation, told Reporters Without Borders
that Karzai gave them hope that Kambakhsh would be freed soon. A presidential spokesman spoke yesterday of Karzai’s concern about the case but said the courts should do their work. The kabulpress.org blog has posted a
recent photo of Kambakhsh in Mazar-i-Sharif prison, where his family
was able to visit him on 2 February. He is reported to be in good
health but worried about what will happen to him. A court in Mazar-i-Sharif sentenced
Kambakhsh to death on a charge of blasphemy on 22 January, at the end
of a summary trial held behind closed doors. Reporters Without Borders
has learned that the lawyer appointed by the family to defend him did
not dare attend the trial for fear of reprisals. Kambakhsh’s brother, Sayed Yaqub
Ibrahimi, a journalist who is known for his articles about human rights
abuses in the north of the country, is looking for a new lawyer in
Kabul. A journalism student and reporter for the Jahan-e Naw ("New World") newspaper, Kambakhsh has been detained since 27 October.
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NACUA Workshop on Legal Issues in Overseas Programs
April One-Day CLE Workshop
Legal Issues in Organizing & Operating Overseas Programs
Friday, April 11, 2008
The Peabody Memphis Hotel
Memphis, TN
Study abroad and other international programs operated by U.S. colleges
and universities continue to grow. More American students are studying
abroad than ever before (more than 200,000 in the 2004 - 2005 academic year),
in a multitude of countries and in a wide variety of program configurations. In
addition, U.S. institutions operate programs overseas,
often in partnership with foreign institutions or countries, and sometimes
catering to foreign nationals. Organizing and operating overseas programs
entails addressing significant legal and risk management problems. Embarking
upon or continuing a foreign program without systematically reviewing the legal
and liability issues is a prescription for an unpleasant surprise at best, and
lawsuits at worst, in the future.
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.
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Why Democracies Use Torture
From the Chronicle of Higher Education
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CIA Chief admits waterboarding
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