Wednesday, June 1, 2011

A new book by an adjunct about adjuncts

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"Smart Business Women Training Camp" on offer in Nashville

Join us in Nashville this June!

There are a lot of myths out there about how women should play the game of business.

Now, there’s a training camp where smart business women like you can get the straight talk on office politics, assertiveness, and other issues business women face daily.

In the world of business, it's easy sometimes to get our priorities wrong, worrying more about what others think of us than how to stick up for ourselves when the stakes are high.

If you've ever worried more about being liked than speaking up for yourself …

if you've ever felt powerless when dealing with condescending colleagues…if you've ever been afraid to take credit for your own ideas or wondered to yourself, “I'm a smart woman— how come I'm not getting ahead faster?” Then it's time for a business training camp designed especially for you—Smart Business Woman Training Camp.

At Smart Business Woman Training Camp, you'll also get to share your real life business experiences—the challenges and the triumphs. See how your experiences fit some of the most common problems and patterns that women face daily —and find executive level solutions!

Learning Objectives:
• Create a plan that will get you seen and heard by the right people in your organization
• Determine who needs to know you, who you need to know—and how you can get to know them
• 3 key self-esteem issues that impact women at every level—and how to get rid of them
• Other women are your allies—create a system of accountability with other women and dramatically move your career objectives forward
• 4 behaviors and self-limiting beliefs you may not even be conscious of that will keep you stuck in the same position for years
• Understand the written and unwritten rules of success in your organization, and how to make your own rules
• Identify three ways to stop being a “well-kept secret” and be seen as a shining jewel
• The 5 most common communication mistakes that women make that stop you from being seen as a leader
• 3 techniques to feel and appear confident and knowledgeable
• Marketing your skills and talents to be seen as a leader by everyone else
• Stop asking and start announcing
Share challenges and best practices with other successful women

2011 Locations:
June 27 - 28: Nashville, TN
Sept. 12 -13: Las Vegas, NV

Reserve your spot today in what may be one of the most important, life-altering experiences of your life—a training that will resonate throughout all the relationships in your life, at work and outside of work!


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I can't believe this was four years ago... time flies, even in the War on Terror

Castagnera packs bags for Israeli trip
Apr 27, 2007View Commentsby Rider News Web
By Julie Ernst
Rider’s associate provost and counsel James Castagnera will be taking the call of American duty a step further than most citizens with his plans for summer 2007.
Castagnera has been awarded an academic fellowship with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy (FDD), an organization that aims to promote a wide-reaching system of beliefs, defend democratic values and fight against the driving forces of terrorism.
“Terrorism is a topic of intense concern to many, if not all, Americans since 9/11,” said Castagnera. “It has been the topic of many of my own weekly newspaper columns and magazine articles in the years since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.”
For 10 days, Castagnera will live and study in Israel, along with 44 other fellowship recipients. According to the FDD Web site, www.defenddemocracy.org, the fellowship is “an intense course on terrorism and the threat it poses to democratic societies.”
The fellowship is intended to provide university professors “with a detailed understanding of the terror threat that faces our nation and sister democracies.”
Castagnera noted that the FDD is a conservative organization whose board includes such figures as publisher and former presidential candidate Steve Forbes.
“However, in the five years that FDD has been sponsoring these academic fellowships, you will find the academics and journalists chosen are drawn from across the political spectrum, from all around the U.S., and from numerous colleges and universities including many of the most prestigious,” Castagnera said.
“I have been critical of the current administration and Congress, when I felt that criticism was appropriate. The FDD knows this and still chose me to be one of its fellows.”
Castagnera is also an associate professor in the Business Policy Department. He sees the fellowship as a great opportunity for teaching purposes as well.
“Dr. Jonathan Mendilow, chair of Political Science and a Middle East scholar, and I teach a BHP course called ‘Theories of Justice and the American Common Law,’’’ said Castagnera. “I hope that when we teach it again next spring, we can include some of the recent federal court cases on terrorism, and that I can bring to bear what I learn as an FDD fellow.”
During his 10 days of study, Castagnera will learn about the latest news in terrorist ideologies, motives and operations. The course will take place in the classroom and in the field, with visits to military bases, border zones and other security locations to see the actual physical elements involved in deterring terrorist attacks.
Professors interested in pursuing the fellowship must meet three general criteria: a full-time affiliation with a U.S. or Canadian university; service in a full-time teaching capacity, preferably international affairs, political science, history or criminal justice; and an ongoing involvement in student affairs.
Although Castagnera is not a full-time faculty member at Rider, he has taught full-time at other institutions.
Accepted professors must be willing to adhere to the following responsibilities: full participation in the 10-day program in Israel; assistance with the recruitment of future candidates for the fellowships; and willingness to aid undergraduate fellows who may attend his or her university.
Castagnera said he feels some of his personal connections are what led to his receiving the fellowship.
“I believe one reason I was among the faculty to be selected was my interest in covering terrorism rather frequently in my weekly newspaper and bi-monthly magazine column,” he said.
Rider’s associate provost has also written a novel that discusses much of what the fellowship will cover. The novel is called Ned McAdoo and the Molly Maguires and was co-authored by Castagnera’s daughter, a freshman creative-writing major at Washington College in Maryland.
“The novel is about 19th century and modern domestic terrorism,” said Castagnera.
The FDD was founded shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, by a group of philanthropists and policy makers, in order to involve themselves and others in worldwide ideas and provide support for the defense of democratic societies. The board of directors includes CEO of Forbes Magazine Steve Forbes; the former Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Jack Kemp; and former ambassador to the U.N. Jeane Kirkpatrick.
“I’m grateful that the provost, Don Steven, is as enthusiastic as I am about my participation as an FDD Fellow, 2007,” said Castagnera. “I believe this honor reflects well on Rider University, as well as on me.”

Oil crises STILL are recurring phenomena...

Oil Crises are Recurring Phenomena

By James Castagnera

As the price at the pump flirts with three dollars, the doomsday crowd declares the end of the Oil Age. While, as a recent National Geographic cover-story proclaims, we Yanks may have just witnessed the end of cheap oil, a dearth of petroleum products is unlikely. A better bet is one more round in a recurring cycle of shortage scares, dating back to the late 19th century.

The birth of the US oil industry can reasonably be dated back to the 1850s in western Pennsylvania, where "rock oil" was skimmed off the water with rags, bottled, and sold as a medicine labeled "Seneca Oil." After the Civil War, a genuine oil shortage -- of whale oil, that is -- opened the door for kerosene to enter the market as a major competitor. By 1859, some three dozen firms were distilling and marketing "coal oil." The first "Oil Boom," during and immediately after the war, drew Cleveland's John D. Rockefeller into the refining business in a big way.

Rockefeller's Standard Oil soon used its near-monopoly on refineries, plus a complex rebate system, to manipulate railroad rates and crush the competition. The Standard Oil Trust Agreement of 1882 created the nationwide, soon to be worldwide, "Octopus." But, according to oil expert Daniel Yergin of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, "a sense of precariousness underlay Standard's great globe-girdling system. There was the fear that the oil would run out."

Ironically, neither a drying up of crude oil, nor even a somewhat-belated Justice Department anti-trust action, broke Standard's iron grip on the industry. Discoveries of vast oil and gas deposits, dwarfing Pennsylvania's reserves, in Texas, Oklahoma and a little later in Arabia, Russia and South America, made Standard's brief monopoly a practical impossibility. The mushrooming industry, its growth tracking the transportation revolution powered by the internal combustion engine, struggled to maintain profitability in the teeth of growing surpluses and cut-throat competition.

Nearly a century after Standard's move toward monopoly status, OPEC -- the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries -- built upon the 1973 "Arab Oil Embargo" a cartel regime that drove the members' oil earnings up from $23 billion in '72 to $140 billion five years later.

Americans once again feared dry gas tanks. For instance, in January 1974 this writer wrote in Lakeland Boating Magazine, "The American boater is vitally interested in what's happening in the desert sheikdoms of the Middle East, where the robed rulers of these oil-rich lands (yes, I liked alliteration even then) have closed the valves that fed US markets."

Again, as in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, monopolization led to higher prices, which inspired entrepreneurs to open up new lines of supply, this time most notably in the North Sea. By the mid-1980s, crude oil prices very nearly collapsed.

At this, the start of the 21st century, as at the beginning of the 20th, the talk has turned to the end of oil. Wishful-thinkers of green hues would welcome such a state of affairs. Working stiffs (such as yours-truly, who commutes 100 miles a day) would not. I prefer to believe CERA's Yergin, when he reassures us that although "bouts of anxiety have recurred since as far back as the 1880s -- global output has actually increased by 60% since the 1970s, the last time the world was supposedly running out of oil."

Now, as ever, soaring prices and apparent shortages can best be blamed on corporate shenanigans and political instabilities -- today in Venezuela, Nigeria, the former Soviet Union and, inevitably, the Middle East.

The time is ripe for the United States to ensure its energy security -- or risk more, and more severe, disruptions. Needed is concerted action along diplomatic, military and industrial/technological lines -- a three-front campaign. The decisive factors are not reserves but resolves.

Jim Castagnera is a Philadelphia attorney, author and educator, who writes the weekly newspaper column "Attorney at Large."

From The Progressive Populist, June 15, 2006

A leadership training event on offer in Philadelphia

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University Professional and Continuing Education Mid-Atlantic Conference set for October

2011 UPCEA Mid-Atlantic
Regional Annual Conference

Registration is now open!
Sign up before the end of your fiscal year

Hosted by: La Salle University

Sparking a Revolution:
Conversations in Continuing Education

October 5-7, 2011 | Nassau Inn | Princeton, N.J.

Join the revolution and spark the conversation with colleagues from the Mid-Atlantic region. Come prepared to exchange ideas as you interact in special break-out sessions designed to get the region sharing industry best practices. Learn about:

* National trends for non-credit programming

* Military and the new GI bill (updates for 2011)

* Emerging technologies and social media

* Environmental Scanning in our "Nuts and Bolts" pre-conference session

* And so much more!

It's the conference for continuing education professionals!

Visit www.MIDatUCEA.org

A scholarship opportunity for adult learners

Dear Jim,

We at Destiny Solutions are pleased to announce that applications are
now open for the 2011-2012 Mary Cone Barrie Scholarship. As
educators, you see everyday how hard adult learners work to
incorporate education into their already busy lives.

Dr. Mary Cone Barrie was the director of Continuing Studies at the
University of Toronto. She was committed to the community, learning
and the implications of technology on adult learners. Destiny
Solutions is
honored to present the $2,500 scholarship to two dedicated lifelong
learners in recognition of Mary’s great contributions to the field
of adult education.

The Mary Cone Barrie Scholarship is available to any currently
enrolled non-traditional learner residing in Canada or the United
States who has changed their life, or the lives of others, by
embracing lifelong learning.

Please find below a link to a poster with more details on the
scholarship and a short description you can post online for your
students. Kindly forward these to the appropriate people so that your
students can fully benefit from the Mary Cone Barrie Scholarship.

Sincerely,

Rachel Kuper
Marketing and Public Relations Manager
416 480 0500 x 214
rkuper@destinysolutions.com
DESTINY SOLUTIONS - THE LEADER IN LIFELONG LEARNING SOLUTIONS
www.destinysolutions.com


Download the scholarship poster here:

www.destinysolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/scholarship-poster-copy.pdf


We appreciate your posting the following description on any
scholarship pages that you may maintain:

Mary Cone Barrie Scholarship for Lifelong Learning, sponsored by
Destiny Solutions

Destiny Solutions created the Mary Cone Barrie Scholarship to applaud
the efforts of two exceptional lifelong learners.

The annual scholarship is available to any currently enrolled
non-traditional learner residing in Canada or the United States who
has changed their life and the lives of others through lifelong
learning.

Each award is valued at $2,500. Applications are due by July 29,
2011. For more information visit our website at
www.destinysolutions.com or

Contact:
Rachel Kuper

Marketing and Public Relations Manager
Destiny Solutions

416-480-0500 x. 214
rkuper@destinysolutions.com