TLT Group FREE FridayLive! Webinar: TGIF -- What pushes a college to the brink of closing?

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This Friday, February 3, we are pleased to host our friend and colleague, Alice Brown, to discuss her new book Changing Course: Reinventing Colleges, Avoiding Closures. If you are part of a college or university community, then you'll want to join us for this important conversation about the stability of our institutions, our roles within them, and what can be done when a college is in crisis.

What are the warning signs that a college is on the brink of closing?



Interview with Alice Brown about her book: Changing Course: Reinventing Colleges, Avoiding Closures.


Friday Feb 3, 2:00pm EDT....Free to all


Guests: Alice Brown, Past President of the Appalachian College Association


“No thriving college is immune from unforeseen disaster, just as no struggling college is irreversibly destined for closure.” Sadly, if you are part of a college or university community -- student, alumni, board member, faculty, president, any other academic professional -- you can no longer be fully confident of the stability of your institution or of your role within it.


In this live online session, we’ll discuss the dangers, the warning signs, and how to deal with them. Alice Brown will summarize and extend the ideas in her new book Changing Course in which she “... presents stories of colleges in crisis and considers what makes the difference between a college that closes and one that nearly closes but manages to remain open.” First Brown, then other participants, will be invited to share their observations and insights in response to these and other questions: What pushes a college to the brink of closing? What are the differences between colleges that "reinvent themselves" or barely avoid closing, and those that disappear? Are there any positive opportunities that can be grasped in these crises?






Registration for Feb. 3


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Also, a thanks to everyone who joined us for last week's FridayLive! on Ender’s Game! We had a great turnout which yielded a flurry of conversation and stimulating discussion. Come back on February 10th for more about the book's ideas and what Steve calls Ender's Game Test for Artificial Instruction. How can a student tell if a live person is the teacher in a course? Does that matter?

What pushes a college to the brink of closure? Warning signs? Too late? Can you help?



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Online Institute
Is Meta Really Betta? Using Metacognition and Reflection Online

February 14, 21, and 28, 2012
2:00 - 3:00pm EDT
Three presenters skilled in developing strategies for improving the success of students and teachers in courses will present a highly interactive three-session workshop on using reflection in teaching, helping participants learn how to teach the way we want to teach.


Leaders: Lucy MacDonald, Florida State College Jacksonville, Saundra McGuire, Louisiana State University, John Zubizarreta, Columbia College


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This workshop is free to TLT Group Individual Members. Check your institution's status here if you have your membership through an institutional subscription.

TLT Group FREE FridayLive! Webinar: TGIF -- What pushes a college to the brink of closing?

PBS Slavery by Another Name

Dr. Sharon Malone speaks during the 'Slavery By Another Name' panel during the PBS portion of the 2012 Winter TCA Tour held at The Langham Huntington Hotel and Spa on Jan. 4, 2012 in Pasadena, Calif.
http://www.eurweb.com/2012/01/eric-holders-wife-tells-her-story-in-pbs-slavery-by-another-name/

Eric Holder’s Wife Tells Her Story in PBS’ ‘Slavery by Another Name’

January 11, 2012 by Cherie Saunders

http://www.slaverybyanothername.com/

*Imagine this…

You do some research into your family tree and discover that your uncle, who was born nearly 30 years after slavery, was one of thousands of black men pulled back into a forced labor system in which they were arrested – largely on trumped up charges – and compelled to work without pay as prisoners.


Imagine that this “convict leasing” system saw the groups of prisoners sold to private parties – like plantation owners or corporations - and that it was not only tolerated by both the North and South, but largely ignored by the U.S. Justice Department.


Now, imagine that nearly a century after your uncle served 366 days in this penal labor system, you find yourself married to the head of the U.S. Justice Department, who, ironically, just so happens to be the first African American in the position.


Dr. Sharon Malone, wife of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, tells the heartbreaking story of her uncle Henry in the upcoming 90-minute PBS documentary “Slavery by Another Name.” The film is based on the eye-opening book by Douglas A. Blackmon, which exposes a part of American history that most folks either had no clue existed, or didn’t know existed to the extent that it did.

“I want people to understand that this is not something that’s divorced and separate, and this doesn’t have anything to do with them,” Dr. Malone told EURweb exclusively at the Television Critics Association press tour last week. “If you were a black person who grew up in the South, some way or the other – whether or not you were directly involved in the system as my uncle was – you knew somebody who was, or your daily lives were circumscribed by those circumstances.”

“But more importantly,” she continues, “why I really want people to see this film is because this is American history. This isn’t just southern history, or African American history. It explains a lot of who we are as a people. It is a missing puzzle piece for what happened. You had the Civil War, you had reconstruction, gap, gap, gap, and then you’re at Martin Luther King. This fills in that gap.”



“Slavery by Another Name,” narrated by Laurence Fishburne and produced and directed by Sam Pollard, premieres Monday, Feb. 13, 2012 at 9 p.m. ET on PBS. Scroll down to watch the promo.


Below, Dr. Malone says she sensed that something was always on low boil with Uncle Henry.


Dr. Sharon Malone of PBS’ ‘Slavery By Another Name’ on her uncle Henry by CherieNic


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5s8ccKepCms


History has repeated itself with the rate of incarcerations of this century!!!

PBS Slavery by Another Name

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Google Launches Redesigned Education Site MindShift

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Google has revamped its site for educators, creating a redesigned repository for all its educational tools and resources for teachers, schools, and students. MORE

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