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A colleague recently emailed me with an interesting concept—the idea that it takes some 18 months for students to decide to take on a particular course of new learning…and the need for at least about a year before a new degree program or course catches on. The concept is something like having to live with an idea for a while before getting used to it sufficiently to accept it.
At this time when so many departments are working ...
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There’s nothing better on a crisp and sunny fall afternoon than to be traipsing across campus with a sheaf of flyers and plenty of tape and pins. That’s at least so for the first hour. The second and the third ones are not as delightful. How I came to be distributing materials around campus is that I offered to publicize a website that is being built to support the protective elements of students’ lives to combat suicide, which ...
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by Eruditio Loginquitas
14 July 2008
The idea of reaching out to Millennials or the Gamer generation to enroll as students at a particular university is a common one. Universities work hard to attract and retain students, using a variety of outreaches, activities, supports and academic and non-academic endeavors. Various third-party companies promise delivery of a large percentage of those on the WWW or on networking sites to a university’s portals for a fee. Students may be surprised at the amount of effort used to ...
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