Jim --
A few Thursdays ago, I had dinner with four Americans named Ken, Casey, Juanita, and Wendi -- the winners of the campaign's first Dinner with Barack contest.
I loved getting to know each of them.
We're taking names for the next dinner starting now, and this time I want to add a new feature: If you win, you can bring a guest.
Watch highlights from the last dinner, then chip in $5 or whatever you can today to be automatically entered to win a spot for you and a guest at the next dinner.
The folks who this election is all about tend to fall under the radar of the D.C. pundits and traditional news media.
They're people like Juanita, who helped put her three sons through college on a teacher's salary while saving what she could for retirement.
Like Ken, a single dad who stood by his mother as she fought insurance companies while battling two forms of cancer.
They're like Casey, whose three young kids may not yet appreciate what courage it took for their dad to take a chance and start his own business.
And Wendi, an artist and third-generation teacher who canvassed, marched, and phone banked in Indiana in 2008, the year her home state defied the traditional electoral map.
These people weren't just there for themselves -- they were representing you, this movement, and the folks I go to work for every day as president.
These dinners are important to me because I want to spend time whenever I can with the people who sent me here. They're proving wrong the conventional wisdom that says campaigns should cater to Washington lobbyists and powerful interests. And they're an important reminder that this movement -- and my presidency -- have never just been about me.
I'm proud that we're choosing to run the kind of campaign where a dinner like this isn't just possible, it's a regular thing. And next time, I don't just want to meet you -- I want to meet someone else in your life.
Donate $5 or more, and start thinking about who you'll invite to dinner:
https://donate.barackobama.com/Dinner
Thanks for being part of this,
Barack
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
I continue to have Sixties Flashbacks, as I see these stories of campus unrest
At CUNY's Baruch College in NYC:
http://chronicle.com/article/At-Baruch-College-Tuition/129871/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
and at UC Davis:
http://chronicle.com/article/UC-Davis-Chancellor-Apologizes/129870/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
SOURCE
http://chronicle.com/article/At-Baruch-College-Tuition/129871/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
and at UC Davis:
http://chronicle.com/article/UC-Davis-Chancellor-Apologizes/129870/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
University Business Webinar: Could Your School Be a Model of Efficiency
Could your school be a Model of Efficiency?
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 2pm, ET
Find out about the University Business Models of Efficiency Awards, which bring administrators and their departments national recognition for best practices and innovative achievements. This prestigious program showcases colleges and universities whose technological expertise and business savvy create effective and successful environments for students and administrators. Recent honorees will describe the initiatives that made them Models of Efficiency, and UB's managing editor will describe the application process and judging criteria.
Register Now
Topics to be covered include:
Examples of initiatives that have earned Models of Efficiency Awards.
How to apply for the award, and what judges look for.
How honorees get national recognition for their institution.
Who will benefit:
Administrative directors and department heads. Anyone may register.
Critical Insights. Timely Information. Free Registration
University Business produces web seminars on topics of special interest to higher education leaders. Moderated by UB's Web Seminar Editor, JD Solomon, each web seminar features presentations by higher education leaders and industry experts. These online events are underwritten by our sponsors so that you may view them for free.
Speakers:
Brian Purcell - Associate CIO; Murray State University.
Matt Gehrett - Executive Director, Continuing Education; Fresno Pacific University.
Kimberly Momballou - Associate University Registrar, and
Betsy Quinzio - Senior Assistant Dean, Office of Undergraduate Admission; College of William and Mary.
Melissa Ezarik - Managing Editor; University Business Magazine.
Casey McGuane - Chief Service Officer; Higher One, sponsor of the Models of Efficiency Awards.
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 2pm, ET
Find out about the University Business Models of Efficiency Awards, which bring administrators and their departments national recognition for best practices and innovative achievements. This prestigious program showcases colleges and universities whose technological expertise and business savvy create effective and successful environments for students and administrators. Recent honorees will describe the initiatives that made them Models of Efficiency, and UB's managing editor will describe the application process and judging criteria.
Register Now
Topics to be covered include:
Examples of initiatives that have earned Models of Efficiency Awards.
How to apply for the award, and what judges look for.
How honorees get national recognition for their institution.
Who will benefit:
Administrative directors and department heads. Anyone may register.
Critical Insights. Timely Information. Free Registration
University Business produces web seminars on topics of special interest to higher education leaders. Moderated by UB's Web Seminar Editor, JD Solomon, each web seminar features presentations by higher education leaders and industry experts. These online events are underwritten by our sponsors so that you may view them for free.
Speakers:
Brian Purcell - Associate CIO; Murray State University.
Matt Gehrett - Executive Director, Continuing Education; Fresno Pacific University.
Kimberly Momballou - Associate University Registrar, and
Betsy Quinzio - Senior Assistant Dean, Office of Undergraduate Admission; College of William and Mary.
Melissa Ezarik - Managing Editor; University Business Magazine.
Casey McGuane - Chief Service Officer; Higher One, sponsor of the Models of Efficiency Awards.
Monday, November 21, 2011
AAC&U/Aspen Institute: "Citizenship in the American and Global Polity" (I'm not sure there is a global polity... are you?)
2012 AAC&U/Aspen Institute Seminars on “Citizenship in the American and Global Polity”
Dear Colleagues:
We are pleased to announce two Wye Seminars on "Citizenship in the American and Global Polity" to be held in the summer of 2012.
The Wye Deans' Seminar —held June 10-14, 2012, for college and university chief academic officers, academic vice presidents, provosts, and academic deans—will focus on the challenges of academic leadership and liberal education in a diverse, global world. Participants experience liberal education at its best. They have the opportunity to explore the issues and values fundamental to our civilization with administrative colleagues from different disciplines and different institutions. They sharpen their skills of cooperative conversation and collective intellectual engagement. They return to their home campuses better able and equipped to exercise leadership among their colleagues in the advancement of liberal learning and across disciplines. The application deadline is February 12, 2012.
The Wye Faculty Seminar —to be held July 21-27, 2012—is one of the premier faculty development programs in the country. The seminar seeks to address what we believe is a central need of faculty members—to exchange ideas with colleagues from other disciplines and other institutions committed to liberal education and probe ideas and values that are foundational to liberal learning in a free society. Modeled in the tradition of The Aspen Institute Executive Seminars, the Wye Faculty Seminar combines three essential goals: to gather a diverse group of thoughtful individuals in intellectually rigorous discussions; to explore great literature stretching from ancient to contemporary time; and to translate ideas into action suitable to the challenges of our age. The Wye Faculty Seminar is offered to selected faculty members who have the honor of being nominated by their presidents and deans for their distinctive contributions to the quality of liberal education. The deadline for nominations is April 1, 2012.
The Wye Seminars combine vigorous intellectual exchange with time to read, reflect, exercise, and socialize on the beautiful Aspen Wye River campus in Queenstown, Maryland. They are supported jointly by the AAC&U and the Aspen Institute.
For further information, contact: Charlene Costello, senior coordinator, phone 410-820-5374, fax 410-827-9182, or e-mail charlene.costello@aspeninstitute.org.
Questions about any of AAC&U's meetings? Email meetings@aacu.org. To unsubscribe from AAC&U Calls for Proposals and Meeting Announcements, click here.
Association of American Colleges & Universities
1818 R Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
www.aacu.org
Dear Colleagues:
We are pleased to announce two Wye Seminars on "Citizenship in the American and Global Polity" to be held in the summer of 2012.
The Wye Deans' Seminar —held June 10-14, 2012, for college and university chief academic officers, academic vice presidents, provosts, and academic deans—will focus on the challenges of academic leadership and liberal education in a diverse, global world. Participants experience liberal education at its best. They have the opportunity to explore the issues and values fundamental to our civilization with administrative colleagues from different disciplines and different institutions. They sharpen their skills of cooperative conversation and collective intellectual engagement. They return to their home campuses better able and equipped to exercise leadership among their colleagues in the advancement of liberal learning and across disciplines. The application deadline is February 12, 2012.
The Wye Faculty Seminar —to be held July 21-27, 2012—is one of the premier faculty development programs in the country. The seminar seeks to address what we believe is a central need of faculty members—to exchange ideas with colleagues from other disciplines and other institutions committed to liberal education and probe ideas and values that are foundational to liberal learning in a free society. Modeled in the tradition of The Aspen Institute Executive Seminars, the Wye Faculty Seminar combines three essential goals: to gather a diverse group of thoughtful individuals in intellectually rigorous discussions; to explore great literature stretching from ancient to contemporary time; and to translate ideas into action suitable to the challenges of our age. The Wye Faculty Seminar is offered to selected faculty members who have the honor of being nominated by their presidents and deans for their distinctive contributions to the quality of liberal education. The deadline for nominations is April 1, 2012.
The Wye Seminars combine vigorous intellectual exchange with time to read, reflect, exercise, and socialize on the beautiful Aspen Wye River campus in Queenstown, Maryland. They are supported jointly by the AAC&U and the Aspen Institute.
For further information, contact: Charlene Costello, senior coordinator, phone 410-820-5374, fax 410-827-9182, or e-mail charlene.costello@aspeninstitute.org.
Questions about any of AAC&U's meetings? Email meetings@aacu.org. To unsubscribe from AAC&U Calls for Proposals and Meeting Announcements, click here.
Association of American Colleges & Universities
1818 R Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
www.aacu.org
An audio conference on trust in the workplace
Upcoming Audio Conference:
Stephen M.R. Covey on TRUST:
The New Leadership Currency in a Low-Trust World
SPECIAL BONUS: Everyone who registers for Stephen’s new audio conference, “Trust: The New Leadership Currency in a Low-Trust World,” will receive a free copy of his book The Speed of Trust and the Speed of Trust Action card set, included in the price of your registration! One book and card set per registration. Sign up today, while supplies last.
Trust is hard, real, and quantifiable. It measurably affects both speed and cost. A function of character and competence, trust can be created and destroyed, effectively taught and learned. In most cases, lost trust can even be restored.
This fast-paced and engaging presentation dramatically reveals TRUST as the hidden variable that will become your most leverageable tool, giving you a distinct strategic advantage.
Trust is a learnable and measurable skill that makes organizations more profitable, people more promotable, and teams more successful at accomplishing their key goals. Don't miss this opportunity to hear Stephen M. R. Covey live, where he'll demonstrate how trust:
Accelerates growth
Increases shareholder value
Increases employee engagement
Enhances innovation
Improves collaboration and execution
Why is Trust Important?
The root of economic and organizational challenges over the last two years has stemmed, in most cases, from a collapse of trust. Too many people don’t trust the banks, don’t trust our economic system, don’t trust the government’s ability to make things right and protect us—and our assets.
Now, as companies try to navigate this new landscape, those with low levels of trust are paying large trust taxes in the form of slower results and higher costs. Meanwhile, the most trusted organizations are earning a trust dividend. Their business continues to grow, and they are reaping the rewards of the trust they have built. Despite a plummeting market, companies who actively build trust have seen their value appreciate 24%, according to a 2009 IBM study.
How can you capitalize on trust? Sign up today for a riveting discussion with Stephen M.R. Covey on the state of trust in our lives today, with a live Q&A afterwards—so come prepared with questions!
Learning Objectives:
How trust is impacting your work, in terms of speed and cost
How can you leverage trust as a strategic and competitive advantage?
What is the relationship between trust and leadership?
Find out why trust is the most important leadership competency
Behaviors that build trust that you can start using immediately
Presented by:
Stephen M. R. Covey
Stephen M. R. Covey is the New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The SPEED of Trust—The One Thing That Changes Everything. He is the former CEO of Covey Leadership Center, which under his stewardship became the largest leadership development company in the world. Stephen personally led the strategy that propelled his father’s book, Dr. Stephen R. Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, to become one of the two most influential business books of the 20th century, according to CEO Magazine.
This program has been approved for 1.5 recertification credit hours through the HR Certification Institute. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HR Certification Institute website. The use of this seal is not an endorsement by HRCI of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met HRCIs criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit.
Product Options:
Audio Conference Only: $219.00
Audio Conference CD Only: $229.00 (includes S&H)
Audio Conference + CD: $329.00 (includes S&H)
To register or learn more, please visit:
http://www.workplacetrainingcenter.com/Prod-2756.aspx?=WHGK11
Stephen M.R. Covey on TRUST:
The New Leadership Currency in a Low-Trust World
SPECIAL BONUS: Everyone who registers for Stephen’s new audio conference, “Trust: The New Leadership Currency in a Low-Trust World,” will receive a free copy of his book The Speed of Trust and the Speed of Trust Action card set, included in the price of your registration! One book and card set per registration. Sign up today, while supplies last.
Trust is hard, real, and quantifiable. It measurably affects both speed and cost. A function of character and competence, trust can be created and destroyed, effectively taught and learned. In most cases, lost trust can even be restored.
This fast-paced and engaging presentation dramatically reveals TRUST as the hidden variable that will become your most leverageable tool, giving you a distinct strategic advantage.
Trust is a learnable and measurable skill that makes organizations more profitable, people more promotable, and teams more successful at accomplishing their key goals. Don't miss this opportunity to hear Stephen M. R. Covey live, where he'll demonstrate how trust:
Accelerates growth
Increases shareholder value
Increases employee engagement
Enhances innovation
Improves collaboration and execution
Why is Trust Important?
The root of economic and organizational challenges over the last two years has stemmed, in most cases, from a collapse of trust. Too many people don’t trust the banks, don’t trust our economic system, don’t trust the government’s ability to make things right and protect us—and our assets.
Now, as companies try to navigate this new landscape, those with low levels of trust are paying large trust taxes in the form of slower results and higher costs. Meanwhile, the most trusted organizations are earning a trust dividend. Their business continues to grow, and they are reaping the rewards of the trust they have built. Despite a plummeting market, companies who actively build trust have seen their value appreciate 24%, according to a 2009 IBM study.
How can you capitalize on trust? Sign up today for a riveting discussion with Stephen M.R. Covey on the state of trust in our lives today, with a live Q&A afterwards—so come prepared with questions!
Learning Objectives:
How trust is impacting your work, in terms of speed and cost
How can you leverage trust as a strategic and competitive advantage?
What is the relationship between trust and leadership?
Find out why trust is the most important leadership competency
Behaviors that build trust that you can start using immediately
Presented by:
Stephen M. R. Covey
Stephen M. R. Covey is the New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The SPEED of Trust—The One Thing That Changes Everything. He is the former CEO of Covey Leadership Center, which under his stewardship became the largest leadership development company in the world. Stephen personally led the strategy that propelled his father’s book, Dr. Stephen R. Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, to become one of the two most influential business books of the 20th century, according to CEO Magazine.
This program has been approved for 1.5 recertification credit hours through the HR Certification Institute. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HR Certification Institute website. The use of this seal is not an endorsement by HRCI of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met HRCIs criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit.
Product Options:
Audio Conference Only: $219.00
Audio Conference CD Only: $229.00 (includes S&H)
Audio Conference + CD: $329.00 (includes S&H)
To register or learn more, please visit:
http://www.workplacetrainingcenter.com/Prod-2756.aspx?=WHGK11
OWS: An update from Faculty Row on UC Davis events
Image: Tom Curtis / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
A message to all members of FacultyRow
Police use of pepper spray to disburse “occupy” demonstrators at UC Davis has set off a firestorm of protest, the suspension of two officers, and calls for the school’s chancellor to resign...
Login to FacultyRow.com to read the full story and watch the youtube video:
http://www.facultyrow.com/profiles/blogs/uc-davis-pepper-spray-incident-goes-viral
Regards,
FacultyRow Director
Visit FacultyRow at: http://www.facultyrow.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network
A call for papers: American INternational Journal of Contemporary Research
Call for Papers
American International Journal of Contemporary Research
ISSN 2162-139X (Print), ISSN 2162-142X (Online)
American International Journal of Contemporary Research (AIJCR) is an open access, peer-reviewed and refereed multidisciplinary journal published by Centre for Promoting Ideas (CPI), USA. The main objective of AIJCR is to provide an intellectual platform for the research community. AIJCR aims to promote contemporary research in business, humanities, social science, science and technology and become the leading journal in the world.
The journal publishes research papers in three broad specific fields as follows:
Business and Economics
Management, marketing, finance, economics, banking, accounting, human resources management, international business, hotel and tourism, entrepreneurship development, business ethics, development studies and so on.
Humanities and Social science
Anthropology, communication studies, corporate governance, criminology, cross-cultural studies, demography, education, ethics, geography, history, industrial relations, information science, international relations, law, linguistics, library science, media studies, methodology, philosophy, political science, population Studies, psychology, public administration, sociology, social welfare, linguistics, literature, paralegal, performing arts (music, theatre & dance), religious studies, visual arts, women studies.
Science and Technology
Astronomy and astrophysics, Chemistry, Earth and atmospheric sciences, Physics, Biology in general, Agriculture, Biophysics and biochemistry, Botany, Environmental Science, Forestry, Genetics, Horticulture, Husbandry, Neuroscience, Zoology, Computer science, Engineering, Robotics and Automation, Materials science, Mathematics, Mechanics, Statistics, Health Care & Public Health, Nutrition and Food Science, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and so on.
The journal is published both in print and online versions.
AIJCR is indexed with and included in Cabell’s, EBSCO, Ulrich’s, Index Copernicus International, and Gale . Moreover the journal is under the indexing process with ISI, DOAJ, ERIC, Econlit and Scopus.
AIJCR publishes original papers, review papers, conceptual framework, analytical and simulation models, case studies, empirical research, technical notes, and book reviews.
AIJCR is inviting papers for Vol. 1 No. 3 which is scheduled to be published on December 15, 2011.
Send your manuscript to the editor at editor@aijcrnet.com, or editor.aijcr@hotmail.com
For more information, visit the official website of the journal www.aijcrnet.com
With thanks,
Dr. Andrew Lessard
The Chief Editor, American International Journal of Contemporary Research
Contact: editor@aijcrnet.com
American International Journal of Contemporary Research
ISSN 2162-139X (Print), ISSN 2162-142X (Online)
American International Journal of Contemporary Research (AIJCR) is an open access, peer-reviewed and refereed multidisciplinary journal published by Centre for Promoting Ideas (CPI), USA. The main objective of AIJCR is to provide an intellectual platform for the research community. AIJCR aims to promote contemporary research in business, humanities, social science, science and technology and become the leading journal in the world.
The journal publishes research papers in three broad specific fields as follows:
Business and Economics
Management, marketing, finance, economics, banking, accounting, human resources management, international business, hotel and tourism, entrepreneurship development, business ethics, development studies and so on.
Humanities and Social science
Anthropology, communication studies, corporate governance, criminology, cross-cultural studies, demography, education, ethics, geography, history, industrial relations, information science, international relations, law, linguistics, library science, media studies, methodology, philosophy, political science, population Studies, psychology, public administration, sociology, social welfare, linguistics, literature, paralegal, performing arts (music, theatre & dance), religious studies, visual arts, women studies.
Science and Technology
Astronomy and astrophysics, Chemistry, Earth and atmospheric sciences, Physics, Biology in general, Agriculture, Biophysics and biochemistry, Botany, Environmental Science, Forestry, Genetics, Horticulture, Husbandry, Neuroscience, Zoology, Computer science, Engineering, Robotics and Automation, Materials science, Mathematics, Mechanics, Statistics, Health Care & Public Health, Nutrition and Food Science, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and so on.
The journal is published both in print and online versions.
AIJCR is indexed with and included in Cabell’s, EBSCO, Ulrich’s, Index Copernicus International, and Gale . Moreover the journal is under the indexing process with ISI, DOAJ, ERIC, Econlit and Scopus.
AIJCR publishes original papers, review papers, conceptual framework, analytical and simulation models, case studies, empirical research, technical notes, and book reviews.
AIJCR is inviting papers for Vol. 1 No. 3 which is scheduled to be published on December 15, 2011.
Send your manuscript to the editor at editor@aijcrnet.com, or editor.aijcr@hotmail.com
For more information, visit the official website of the journal www.aijcrnet.com
With thanks,
Dr. Andrew Lessard
The Chief Editor, American International Journal of Contemporary Research
Contact: editor@aijcrnet.com
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