Episode 15 – Wooden’s Wisdom

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Episode 15 – Wooden’s Wisdom

June 14th, 2010

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For the week of June 5, 2010:

Follow up to last week’s lead story, Stanford is following suite and doing some DNA testing of its own. Though it is not testing all incoming students, only medical and graduate students enrolled in the School of Medicine’s summer session elective “Genetics 210: Genomics and Personalized Medicine.” Inside Higher Ed, Quick Takes reported on June 8, 2010

Alleged Harvard con artist also won admission to Stanford from Boston Globe on June 9

Legendary basketball and an even better person, Coach John Wooden passed away recently. The USA Today shares some stories about The Wizard of Westwood. A collection of ‘Woodenisms’ from ESPN

From The Chronicle on June 11 Standing Up Against Money in College Sports

From Yahoo News on June 4 Four-day school weeks gain popularity across US to save money and results in some surprising benefits.

Austin Business Journal on June 7 reports Texas higher education board launches ‘Generation TX’

Online institutions, programs and classes are growing by leaps and bounds. The experience for the on-line courses is getting better and better. We have come a long way from just pointing and clicking. The Miami Herald explores this on June 7, 2010

We’ve talked in the past about accreditation. Well it seems the House will be investigating as reported by Financial Aid News on June 11

Blind students sue over access to an online law school applications. The Chronicle’s Wired Campus printed an article on June 9, 2010.

SponsorMyDegree.com is a place where around 10,000 students try to stand out and get donors to stand up and provide donations. The Tennessean reports on June 8, 2010.

The Datatel MOX application is now live in the iTunes store. Datatel schools will begin adding their information to the application allowing anyone with the app to see news, events, maps & important numbers. There are additional features of the app that if set up by the institution can be accessed with a login and password.

Higher Ed Highlight for the month of June