colors

cardinal

orange

blue

summertime

East coast:
https://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/41/26/dtg-bmcc-pantry-feeds-students-2018-06-29-bk.html

West coast:
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/06/25/housing-costs-more-than-tuition-are-crushing-californias-low-income-college-students/

The middle:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/news/ct-ptb-ivy-tech-column-st-0622-story.html

Near the pasture in Orange:
https://youtu.be/mvbYFK1TUo0

And around the world:
http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=2018062208555853

This College Student Gave a Presentation on Wakanda That Fooled His Professor [Gizmodo]

https://io9.gizmodo.com/this-college-student-gave-a-presentation-on-wakanda-tha-1826711831



https://www.reddit.com/r/marvelstudios/comments/8oq47l/i_gave_an_11_minute_presentation_about_the_power/

Harvard report found Asian-Americans faced admissions penalty [Boston Globe]

The flava:
Asian-American applicants to Harvard University had among the strongest academic credentials, broad extracurricular interests, and impressed alumni in interviews, but consistently scored poorly by one key measure: charming admissions officers with their personality.

According to court documents filed Friday in an affirmative action lawsuit against Harvard University, Asian-Americans across the academic spectrum received lower personal ratings from the university’s admissions officers than their peers.

Those findings are the latest evidence in a lawsuit contending that Harvard discriminates against Asian-American applicants and was aware for several years that the admissions process at one of the world’s most exclusive universities was stacked against them.

The article:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/06/15/harvard-studies-revealed-concern-over-asian-american-admissions-rate/cZcvzgxFg9zZ6F2am5QeVP/story.html

Monday Magic in June

Any optimistic comments about your school or the state of higher education anywhere?

Perhaps this is a Sunday Thirsty? [from Southern Bubba, Ph.D.]

Perhaps this is a Sunday Thirsty?

I'm drunk.  So exhilaratingly drunk.

I'm wondering whether other proffies are as disillusioned as I am.

The schools all look the same, Zooze.  Are one school's graduates better off than another's?  Are not all administrators similarly disingenuous or self-deceived?

My students lately have been so kind to me.  Is it because I've been kind to them?

My mother, my dear mother, this morning at 3:00 a.m. said to me as I was changing her diaper, "I don't have to wear this shirt tomorrow, do I?"  It seemed like a spontaneous emission.  She is so sweet--and mired in the Alzheimer's.  I don't know whether she was talking about the actual shirt or about something else.  I told her she didn't have to do anything she didn't want to do.  I kissed her on her forehead.

I guess I say something similar to my students.  They don't have to do anything they don't want to do.  But if they don't pass muster, then they won't pass my class.  Period.  Full stop.

I keep reading your stuff.  It sustains me.

There is so much I do not know.  I am confused, but I persevere.

Thank you.

--Southern Bubba, Ph.D.

These are the colleges most likely to land you a job in every state. [zippia.com]

According to the career-guidance site Zippia, this is the list of schools in each state with the best record of getting their graduates jobs after graduation:

Alaska: Alaska Pacific University
Alabama: Auburn University
Arkansas: University of AR for Medical Sciences
Arizona: Embry-Ridde Aero. Univ.-Prescott
California: University of the Pacific
Colorado: Colorado School of Mines
Connecticut: Quinnipiac University
Delaware: University of Delaware
Florida: Embry-Ridde Aero. Univ.-Daytona Beach
Georgia: Georgia Tech
Hawaii: Hawaii Pacific University
Iowa: Drake University
Idaho: The College of Idaho
Illinois: Millikin University
Indiana: University of Notre Dame
Kansas: Kansas Wesleyan University
Kentucky: Georgetown College
Louisiana: Xavier University of Louisiana
Massachusetts: Endicott College
Maryland: Mount St. Mary's University
Maine: University of New England
Michigan: Kettering University
Minnesota: University of St. Thomas
Missouri: Saint Louis University
Mississippi: University of Mississippi
Montana: Montana State University
North Carolina: Elon University
North Dakota: University of Mary
Nebraska: Nebraska Wesleyan University
New Hampshire: Keene State College
New Jersey: Stevens Institute of Technology
New Mexico: NM Institute of Mining and Technology
Nevada: University of Nevada-Las Vegas
New York: Hobart William Smith Colleges
Ohio: Ohio Northern University
Oklahoma: Southern Nazarene University
Oregon: Oregon Health & Science University
Pennsylvania: Lebanon Valley College (placement rate: 96.185%)
Rhode Island: Salve Regina University
South Carolina: The Citadel
South Dakota: University of Sioux Falls
Tennessee: Vanderbilt University
Texas: McMurry University
Utah: Westminster College
Virginia: Virginia Tech
Vermont: Saint Michael's College
Washington: Pacific Lutheran University
Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin-Platteville
West Virginia: Bethany College
Wyoming: University of Wyoming

The article:
https://www.zippia.com/advice/best-college-state-getting-job-2018/

a greeting by way of bad haiku, from Great Lakes Greta

quite by accident,
i found you all again
and found myself as well.



--GLG

Ruth Simmons, Allan Golston, Margaret Spellings, and Frank Bruni on Higher Ed

Summer Session/Summer School [from Wombat of the Copier]

I did a good 10 years of summer session in the state system here. It's exhausting and when implemented in 5 week rather than 8 week sessions, at least for general chemistry, it's a stupid waste of time. But I always had fun and the kids usually felt exhilarated when it was over. It's usually 85-90% type As who can't chillax for 14 weeks, and a handful of flunkies who needed a do-over.

I never realized how important the type As are for controlling flunkie-to-flunkie interactions.

I have 29 right now.  23 of them are flunkies.

Here's footage from the first day:
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/snl-john-goodman-as-arthur-dugan/81894621/

Idk wtf to do. If you don't hear from me again by 4th of July, ask Ben and Frod to watch Summer School, Animal House and all of the Nancy episodes of Little House on the Prairie and try to come up with an algorithm to determine their most probable prank scheme, and use Ben's knowledge of materials available in a freshman chem lab to try to develop the antidote. Send it to: WotC c/o College that Finds Adjuncts on Craigslist, 3rd floor

--WotC