You’ve Been Accepted To MIT, the University of Notre Dame, and Tokyo Institute of Technology

Over a year ago I posted here about an outstanding free public educational resource called the Open Courseware Consortium. A story on Wise Bread recently made me realize how much this program has grown.

The Open Courseware Consortium offers free access to thousands of classes at over 100 world universities. MIT alone offers 1800 courses!

There’s nothing like a little Quantum Physics to get your Sunday off to a good cerebral start.

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FEMA News Conference Disaster Teaches Valuable PR Lesson

Unless you’ve been out of the country recently, chances are you’ve heard about the fake news conference held by the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) public affairs department about the wildfires in California. While a lot of governmental affairs are beyond my understanding, this PR misstep is one that will be dissected for years to come. 

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SCADshorts Featured Content On YouTube

Here’s a reminder to visit SCADshorts and enter to win an iPod. I’ve posted about SCADshorts before, so I’ll let the site do the talkin’. SCADshorts was featured content on YouTube’s home page yesterday and this morning. SCADshorts involves the efforts of Matt Charpentier (et al.) on our staff and some of his colleagues from the Savannah School of Art and Design.

I noticed the site was moving a little slow this morning. Hey, that’s what happens when you get famous!

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Colleges Get Creative with Recruiting Ads

Now that Labor Day has passed, students across the nation are back in school, cracking open new (and expensive) textbooks. Classes at the University of Minnesota (where I’m a student) started Tuesday. With the fourth largest student body in the nation, the U of M Twin Cities boasts 50,000 students alone. What made all these people want to enroll here? What made me decide to attend the U of M? Come to think of it, what makes any student want to attend any particular school? The answer to that is simple—college recruiting ads.

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Universities Tackle Student-Athlete Use of Social Networking Sites

In the high-stakes world of college sports, new scandals and public relations nightmares continually emerge. Now a new online twist has surfaced: how to address less-than-flattering posts from student-athletes on social networking sites. One Minnesota university has taken a bold step by banning student-athlete use of Facebook, MySpace and other sites after disciplining students for online posts last year.

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