Book review notes from “Surviving and thriving in uncertainty: Creating the risk intelligent enterprise” by Frederick Funston and Steven Wagner. Funston, F., & Wagner, S. (2010). Surviving and thriving in uncertainty: creating the risk intelligent enterprise. Jphn Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ. I was led to this book during our environmental scanning for higher education. […]
Month: February 2011
reflections on state funding for higher education
our cohort is looking at trends in state level funding for higher education and saw Arkansas proposing a plan to tie funding to short term measures of performance like class completion %, which triggered the following reflection on my part during our weekly discussions 1. state legislatures are tied to the annual and biannual budget […]
Wisconsin Tea Partier calls for bloody reprisals against teachers, is castigated by the press
Oops, no, sorry. I meant to say that it was an elected Democrat, who called for blood in protesting Wisconsin‘s governors actions, and so therefore, not a peep against this call fr violence. I am shocked, shocked! I really dont mind his rhetoric; I actually agree with him in principle, which puts he and I […]
Public employee unions shovel money to the Democrats: is that really news?
Here is the money quote: Follow the money, Washington reporters like to say. The money in this case comes from taxpayers, present and future, who are the source of every penny of dues paid to public employee unions, who in turn spend much of that money on politics, almost all of it for Democrats. In […]
Reflections on food and education in geopolitical ju-jitsu
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110222/ap_on_re_us/us_wisconsin_budget_unions continuing discussions over the role of funding & negotiating teacher salaries in Wisconsin And after the quote below, one must wonder why the parents of Wisconsin school children should be so eager to get these teachers back In the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests administered by the U.S. Department of Education in 2009—the […]
Futsal season concludes with our best games of the season
really proud of our girls as they finished the season with a couple very well played, competitive games. even at age 12 they are becoming more mature and focused in practice. they get rewarded by participating in what we will do in each practice, provided they bring energy to the game. They usually like to […]