2 photojournalism graduates take top honors in Hearst multimedia contest
Two WKU photojournalism graduates finished first and second in the first multimedia competition of the 53rd annual Hearst Journalism Awards Program. Zack Conkle of Louisville received a $2,600 award...
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WKU graduate named to position with public relations firm
WKU graduate Mckenzi Loid of Bowling Green has been named assistant account manager at Guthrie/Mayes Public Relations. Loid, who earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in public relations with a minor in...
View ArticleWKU Honors Today #11: Study Abroad, the old & the new Honors building, and...
Today is the 15th day of 2013. There are 350 days left in the year. Video of the Day: WBKO on the old and the new Honors building, featuring Clay Motley! (49 seconds) Upcoming opportunities, events...
View ArticleAtaturk International Airport photo/video presentation by Nate Hovee
Nate’s comment on Facebook: “Here’s a photo/video presentation I recently produced and edited for my editorial photography final project at Yeditepe University in Istanbul. It involved spending...
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WKU Honors Today #12: $4000 internship, study abroad, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf &...
Today is the 16th day of 2013. There are 349 days left in the year. Video of the Day: Ataturk International Airport by Nate Hovee Upcoming opportunities, events & deadlines Apply for the $4000...
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Virtualized – The End of the University as we Know It
In fifty years, if not much sooner, half of the roughly 4,500 colleges and universities now operating in the United States will have ceased to exist. The technology driving this change is already at...
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More details on funding & timeline for the new Honors building
funding: public universities issuing agency bonds (not state funding) “Robbin Taylor, WKU’s vice president for Public Affairs, said in an email she believes the General Assembly previously declined to...
View ArticleWhy WKU is a global leader in gifted education
For the second time since October, a delegation of educators from Saudi Arabia is visiting WKU to learn best practices in gifted education. In this week’s View from the Hill, Amy Bingham shows us...
View ArticleAs California Goes?
California is the Fertile Crescent for massive open online course providers, at least the for-profit ones. The state is also shaping up as a testing ground for phase two of the MOOC experiment, which...
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Who’s watching you when you are online & what you can do about it
(Source: Online Tracking 101: Who’s Watching You, Daily Infographic, Jan 19, 2013)
View ArticleWKU Honors Today/This Week: Early Registration, Forensics Showcase, Passport,...
New: Last Advising Workshop to get early registration (starting April 10): Tue, Apr 2, 8pm, MMTH 232 Forensics Team Showcase, Sat, Mar 30, 7.30pm, FAC Recital Hall Passport Info Day, Thu, Apr 4,...
View ArticleWhat we’re reading #1: Audra Jennings reads about history, medicine &...
This is the first post in our new forum, What We’re Reading. It is very fitting that Audra contributed the first post, as the forum itself was her own brilliant idea! We hope you will soon share with...
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Flipping the classroom: iTunes U, iPad U & Apple’s challenge-based learning
Some key points Lynn University will require all new students to buy an iPad mini, that will come loaded with core curriculum texts and summer reading It is supposed to cost half of what they were...
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Going global
OK, it’s a slow news day … so, glancing at this blog’s stats for the day, I liked this list of top ten cities of visitors so much I just had to post it – it’s just such a unique configuration: Bowling...
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Martin Luther King Jr. on true education
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”
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MOOCs: How game-changing are they & will they be?
[...] there was fairly broad-scale agreement that MOOCs and other technology-enabled education will be truly transformative in higher education only at the point that they give educators the tools to...
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WKU President Ransdell discusses higher ed funding, construction costs,...
Excerpt: Most students who come to a major four-year public institution with a broad range of academic programs do more than just get that credential. They grow, they learn how to reason, they learn...
View ArticleWorld conference for gifted education will be held Aug. 10-14 in Louisville
Local educators and parents will have a unique opportunity this summer to learn from the world’s leading experts in gifted education, and they won’t have to drive across the country or fly around the...
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