Author: Jim
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Channel 6: Unemployment Benefits Extended?
Channel 6 called and interviewed me about the proposal in the Senate to extend unemployment benefits by “15 days”. See my Econproph.com post for my comments. Should be on 6:00 news tonight.
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CWAC: Website Ready
I completed (finally) the development of a website for the LCC College-Wide Assessment Committee. It’s at: http://lcccwac.wordpress.com/ We’re looking at bringing the hosting of the site in-house.
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CTE Presentation
I presented a peek at my Principles of Econ online courses at the CTE workshop “Online Course Demos” on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010, along with Jean Lynch-Brandon. The session was well attended with approx. 25 other faculty and administrators in attendance.
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New Assignment: AQIP Strategy
Lansing Community College is part of AQIP, the Academic Quality Improvement Process. AQIP is an alternative process for accreditation through the Higher Learning Commission. The traditional approach involves an intensive, on-site review and comparison to prescriptive criteria by reviewers every 7-10 years. AQIP calls for creating continuous quality improvement processes and reviewing progress/status with other…
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New Project: Search Committee
LCC is going to hire a replacement for Bruce McCrea in Economics. Bruce retired and can’t really be replaced, but we’ll try. I am on the search committee.
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Presentation: Blogs- Professor’s Best Friend
I presented on “Blogs: A Professor’s Best Friend” to LCC faculty as part of LCC’s Professional Development Days. A copy of the powerpoint is here. I have an .mp3 file of the audio here. Both are unedited. I’m planning to edit and combine them into a flash presentation that I’ll post to my new blog…
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Presentation: Future of LMS’s
I presented on “Beyond Angel: The Future of LMS’s” to LCC faculty as part of LCC’s Professional Development Days. A copy of the powerpoint is here. I have an .mp3 file of the audio here. Both are unedited. I’m planning to edit and combine them into a flash presentation that I’ll post to my new…
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Channel 6: Car Sales Numbers for 2009
Did an interview with WLNS Channel 6 today. The December & full year 2009 car sales numbers came out. Not really a surprise that 2009 was uuuu-ggglly, but there are some bright spots. GM’s Oct-Nov-Dec trend for the 4 brands it’s keeping are positive. And Ford rocks. I think it looks cautiously optimistic for the…
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Channel 6: Unemployment “only” 10%- Good?
Did an interview with WLNS Channel 6 reporter Jessica Maki today. The November employment report came out with surprisingly improved news. Of course, it’s still bad news that employment is shrinking, but losing only 11,000 is a heck of a lot better than last month’s -111,000.
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If You Believe in “Intellectual Property”, How Do You Teach Others? – Answer: you can’t
An excerpt from Jeffrey Tucker nails it. To teach at a college or university is to engage in an ancient and very worthwhile endeavor: the teaching of others. To do so, one must be opposed to the concept of “intellectual property”.: …how do you at once enforce intellectual property and uphold the ideal of a…