The state Board of Education had planned to vote Wednesday on whether to adopt the waiver process, but the board delayed the vote until Thursday after requesting some minor changes.
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Scam Takes Advantage of Teens
Scam Takes Advantage of Teens
High school students look out, there's a new scam out there targeting you. The Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office is warning teens and their families about the scam.
Rell wants to keep tuition cap
Gov. M. Jodi Rell has informed state university officials that she wants to keep in place a cap on tuition and instead reduce operating costs to save money. Read more ...
Losing Academic Confidence
As a student, it’s sometimes helpful to see your academic situation from the professors’ point of view. It’s also valuable to note the fact that the educators are sometimes as flummoxed by students’ flailings and failings as the students are. When bright young things who were stoked to dive on into their pursuit [...]
As a student, it’s sometimes helpful to see your academic situation from the professors’ point of view. It’s also valuable to note the fact that the educators are sometimes as flummoxed by students’ flailings and failings as the students are. When bright young things who were stoked to dive on into their pursuit of knowledge at the beginning of the year, are crushed and demoralized by the time spring break rolls around and are walking out and switching majors, the students and the profs need to figure out what in the hell happened.
Via Tomorrow’s Professor Blog comes this article by Mica A. Hutchison-Green, a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education at Northwestern University. Most of that previous sentence means Mica is interested in the education of engineering students and wrote an article about why they lose confidence partway through their undergraduate degrees and end up changing majors.
The article is written for educators, but it’s relevant for students as well, regardless of their field of study. It explains to the instructors why the freshmen engineering majors lose confidence in themselves academically and how the situation can be avoided and/or reversed.
Posted by Alexa Harrington
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