The Institute of HeartMath http://www.heartmath.org/index.html promotes healthy learning and working which is what we “Good Work” bloggers are all trying to achieve. They are the leading researchers in the link that connects heart to brain communication, emotions, and cognitive functioning. They believe in and have proven that synchronizing the mental, physical, and emotional aspects of a student leads to much, much healthier learning. A healthy environment and HeartMath’s learning strategies lead to better memory retention, overall better school and work performance, and best of all a huge reduction of stress! Heart imaging and the heart-brain communication are used to show that optimal levels of performance and learning can be attained by using the right tools and techniques, such as those of HeartMath. They believe that there is such a thing as heart intelligence or as they like to say “the little brain in the heart”. By connecting lessons taught in class to the students’ values and emotions it creates a healthy learning environment and the students will be prone to paying better attention and better performance.
Tuition: Earn More, Pay More? December 6, 2007
Damast , A (2004, Dec 4). Tuition: Earn More, Pay More?. Retrieved December 5, 2007, from Business Week Web site: http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/dec2007/bs2007124_770986.htm
Schools are using differential tuition to charge students who study an area with a larger promise of financial success more; most commonly, the business schools. The people raising the prices believe that because business students will earn more later on they can pay more now. Other schools are raising prices to stay in competition and maintain accreditation with these new standards. With the extra money these colleges are able to recruit better students and hire excellent professors.
This idea of differential tuition can discourage students from studying what they desire, if they don’t have enough money to afford the $500 extra to study in the college of business it could lead to very negative effects on the student and retention rates for the university. Although I agree that generally business students are better prepared to earn higher paying jobs I don’t think it’s right to set them apart from other people at a university.
Kelly Stillman
Lectures on iTunes make university classes portable December 6, 2007
(2004, Dec 4). Lectures on iTunes make university classes portable. Retrieved December 6, 2007, from Los Angelos Times Web site: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/casual/stories/1104DNbusiPhoneU.1d1468f.html
Universities are beginning to post lectures on iTunes for free. Some do it to keep up pace with students, parents, and alumni while others want to spread the learning opportunities that being in college provides, sharing the ivory tower’s intellectual riches with the rest of the world.” Apple picks up the bill for storing these lectures and gains goodwill with universities and increases the demand for iPods. For many professors it’s a catch-22 because students use it as an opportunity to skip class while for others it’s a learning opportunity they’ve never had.
Kelly Stillman
CSU Dorm Residents Live a Green Example November 1, 2007
The article comes straight from Colorado State Campus news. It reveals the untold secrets of the new CSU dormSummit
. The E-wing fourth floor has made a pact to live green. They are using a food compost to dispose of uneaten food, limiting their shower time, turning off lights, sorting their recycling, purchasing renewable energy among many other things. Also, they are actively learning about sustainability and learning green. The knowledge gained is used to make responsible decisions within their living space, and to engage friends outside the floor in conversations. The fact that the whole community is committed to making a difference has helped the E floor to continue green living “when you are living around people on the same floor who are interested in the same thing. It’s encouraging”.
I found this article to be impressive, because I didn’t know any of the sort was going on. However, it seems fitting that a university like state would focus its interests on this. The university is dishing out the big bucks to wind power, and organic farming while we the students sit idle waiting for the world to change. It’s important to realize that smaller more inexpensive steps can be taken that promise the same worth while results. The university can lead their students toward promising careers and healthy lifestyles. I just wish that when I lived in the dorms I could have taken part of something like this.
_ McKenzie : )
