Saturday, May 30, 2009

Shift course

Shift course
Decisions about careers have always been frightening. And that was before the economy went on life support.

Obama's Gramps: Gazing skyward on D-Day in England

Obama's Gramps: Gazing skyward on D-Day in England
Surely, Stanley Dunham was gazing skyward 65 years ago, on D-Day. Dunham, the man whom Barack Obama would one day call Gramps, was a 26-year-old supply sergeant stationed near the English Channel with the U.S. Army Air Forces when the invasion of Normandy at last began. Six weeks later, he crossed the Channel, too, and followed the Allied front across ...

WideOpenEducation

WideOpenEducation
WideOpenEducation is a promising new blog that focuses on resources for higher education. The weblog is sponsored by the same creator who developed the excellent Open Education Datatbase (OEDb). The WOE site will include an rss feed for subscribers and will be searchable by key words. It will be interesting to see how this site develops. _____JH

Clearing a new hurdle

Clearing a new hurdle
The letter from the college on the harbor arrived at the beginning of April. "Not too much good news transmits by mail today," Edwin Moses observes. So he was startled to learn that UMass-Boston was making him an honorary doctor of science. "I was excited for the next six weeks, and now I'm excited continuously," says the legendary Olympic track ...