You might be conclude from Alf Seegerts research statement that his interests are are more modern than ancient. His research in cybercultural ecologies examines the interpenetrating relationships between nature, virtuality, and narrative as represented in literature, film, and new media reads the description of the University of Utahs assistant professor of English. But youll find that one of his interests is decidedly old-fashioned. He creates board games. Yes, the kind with tangible cards and pieces and a board with luxurious pictures. His latest game, due out in summer, takes its inspiration from something even older: Chaucers The Canterbury Tales. Read more about this intriguing tale in a story in the May 15 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Parents in rural Knights Landing say school officials in the city of Woodland have hit them with a devastating one-two punch, first by closing their elementary school and now by evicting a parent-run preschool.
“We’re being bullied once again,” said Paige Ferguson-Allen, a board member of the cooperative Knights Landing Children’s Center and a lifelong resident.
In 2009, the Woodland Joint Unified School District shut down Grafton Elementary, Knights Landing’s only public school and a center of community life.
Residents said the cost-saving measure was a huge blow to the struggling Yolo County hamlet of about 1,000 residents, including many farmworkers.
The town’s children scattered to schools in Woodland and nearby Robbins in Sutter County.
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Do we live in an informed society and, if so, what role has the media played in this? This debate took place at the BBC College of Journalism/POLIS conference at the London School of Economics in June 2011. Chaired by Adrian Monck of the World Economic Forum, the panel included Stella Creasy MP, Robert Phillips of Edelman, Julia Hobsbawn of Editorial Intelligence and John Harris of the Guardian.
College campus visits are best conducted during normal school days when classes are in session and the campus is full of student activities. However, visiting colleges during summer months does provide significant benefits to families because students and parents are able to see college campus settings and the areas surrounding each campus, students have the opportunity to interview with admission officers, parents can attend information settings, and families can get an overall impression of a variety of college campuses.
There are two types of campus visits: Informal campus visits and formal campus visits. Informal campus visits involve wandering around a college campus on your own when students and parents drop by for a casual walk-around. There also are formal campus visits, which include guided campus tours, interviews, information sessions, and much more.
Both types of campus visits require families plan their travel. Read more…
It may feel like an eternity, but with the Fourth of July in the rear-view mirror, football season is really just around the corner.
And, if you are like me, it can’t come quickly enough.
I’m sick of waiting for the baseball season to get to the point where it feels like the games matter.
I’m even more sick of NFL labor negotiation talks.
And if I’m sick of those, you can imagine how I already feel about the NBA issues.
Ugh.
What else is there?
I enjoy soccer, so the FIFA Women’s World Cup is a nice diversion — but it’s not football (at least, not my kind of football).
So the thought that the lights will come on at area high schools on Aug. 19 (five-and-a-half weeks away) and that the curtain will rise on BYU football two weeks later at Mississippi is one of the things that keeps me going.
I’ve got a lot to do to get ready for the new landscape with BYU being independent and the Utah Valley high schools being realigned. There are some cool things coming.
But it’s all going to be worth it when I finally get to hear those pads crunch and see that pigskin go flying off the tee.
Six weeks. T
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