Preparing for a Public Interest Career
Career Services Speaker Series Preparing for a Public Interest Career September 9, 2010 Career Services | Public Interest Law Project It’s never too early to begin planning your public interest career! In this podcast, Bill Penn, the Public Interest Law Coordinator, talks about the essential tips, tricks and information you need to plan a career [...]
Timothy Sandefur: The Right to Earn a Living
Student Group Speaker Series Timothy Sandefur: The Right to Earn a Living September 1, 2010 Federalist Society Public interest attorney and author Timothy Sandefur of the CATO Institute discusses whether we have a fundamental right to earn a living. This event is sponsored by the Lewis & Clark Law School Federalist Society and the Portland [...]
Clerking in a Criminal Defense Office
Career Services Speaker Series Clerking in a Criminal Defense Office October 21, 2010 Career Services If you’re interested in criminal law, specifically criminal defense, learn more about law clerk opportunities working in criminal defense, from a panel of Lewis & Clark students who clerk in various criminal defense offices. The program was held at Lewis [...]
Clerking in a Prosecutor’s Office
Career Services Speaker Series Clerking in a Prosecutor’s Office October 19, 2010 Career Services Are you interested in criminal law, specifically prosecution-side work? A panel of Lewis & Clark students who have worked as law clerks for different prosecutor’s offices will share their insights and experiences about what it’s like to be a law clerk [...]
Get Ready to Graduate!
Career Services Speaker Series Get Ready to Graduate! October 19, 2010 Career Services Graduating students! Get information on: -Law School Graduation Requirements (Information on dates, deadlines, confirming credits to graduate, etc.) -Alumni Office (How they can help you and how you can stay involved as a Lewis & Clark alum) -Preparing for the Post-Grad Job [...]
Discussion about the Moldavan Legal System
Student Group Speaker Series Discussion about the Moldavan Legal System October 28, 2010 International Law Society | email International Law Society Do you know anything about the Moldavan Legal System? Yes? No? A little bit? In this podcast, five distinguished appellate judges from the Republic of Moldova discuss the legal framework of a new country [...]
“The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa”
A talk by American University professor Deborah Brautigam. Is China a rogue donor, as some media pundits suggest? Or is China helping the developing world pave a pathway out of poverty, as the Chinese claim? This well-timed book provides the first comprehensive account of China's aid and economic cooperation overseas. Deborah Brautigam ta
Jeremy Siegel: Rising Bond Yields Mean Trouble for All Financial Markets
U.S. financial markets were battered at the end of last week because of a dramatic sell-off of Treasury bonds. The yield on 10-year bonds, which has been rising since May, neared the critical barrier of 5.25% on June 8 -- the highest level in five years. Media reports suggest that turmoil in the bond market could continue this week, making investors anxious about whether interest rates might go up and bring to an end the period of cheap money that has buoyed up asset markets and also funded a wo
Microsoft and Yahoo: Does It Make Sense (and Will It Work)?
On Friday, February 1, Microsoft announced it was making an unsolicited bid to acquire Yahoo for $44.6 billion in cash and stock, a 62% premium over Yahoo's stock price at the time. Yahoo is officially "evaluating" the offer and, according to reports, is talking to other companies as possible suitors. Meanwhile, Google seems determined to derail the deal, stating that it finds the proposed acquisition "troubling" and offering to help Yahoo come up with other options. Does the deal make sense, an
Seth Goldman: Brewing Organic Tea with a Mission-based Business Model
In 1998, social entrepreneur Seth Goldman founded Honest Tea, the nation's best-selling and fastest-growing organic bottled tea company, with a business professor from the Yale School of Management. Honest Tea sources from organic and fair trade tea estates, and has partnered with community development groups ranging from the Crow Reservation in Montana to organizations in South Africa and Guatemala. Goldman talked with Knowlege@Wharton about carving out space in the competitive beverage market,
Academic Strategies for the Business Professional
CS113 - Academic Strategies for the Business Professional
This course introduces you to the purposes and processes of university education. An emphasis is placed on study, communication, and thinking skills that support academic achievement. Students also examine the relationship between learning and motivation.
Academic Strategies for the IT Professional
CS114 - Academic Strategies for the IT Professional
In this course, you will plan, organize, and prioritize your school-related activities by assessing your time management skills and setting goals. You will understand what causes stress, how time and stress management are connected and what you can do to manage stress effectively. You will identify your learning styles and learn how to be a more effective writer.
Providence Equity's Gaurav Sharma: 'Private Equity Is Now a More Mature Market'
In the world of private equity, Providence Equity Partners is a specialist. The firm, whose headquarters are in Providence, R.I., specializes in deals involving media, entertainment, information and communications companies. In 2007, Providence Equity opened its New Delhi office, headed by Biswajit (Bis) Subramanian, who had earlier been a managing director in the firm's London office. By mid 2008, Providence Equity had invested more than US$1 billion in Idea Cellular, which, according to media
A new career in the health service
In this Podcast, Professor Beasley talks about the importance of optimism in the ever-changing field of Nursing. She also stresses the need to take risks to further your career.
Professor Beasley addresses the Nursing graduating class of 2006.
Classroom Applications of 21st Century Skills 21st century learning is providing curriculum and instruction designed to engage this generation of digital-native students. Learn how 21st century skills can be implemented into the classroom to add critical thinking, collaboration, and complex curriculum through an interdisciplinary, integrated, project-based approach. Beth Andrews, M.A., is the GATE Coordinator for the Irvine Unified School District and is the Orange County Educator Representative for California Association for th
Dog examination techniques
This presentation has been developed to introduce veterinary students to the process of carrying out a systematic physical examination in canine patients. It is designed to act as an introduction to these processes and procedures only, giving the students a framework from which to work as they develop and refine these skills throughout the veterinary course.
Physical examination is a key skill which will be used throughout a veterinary surgeon's career and is a key determinant in selecting diag
Grizzly Bears and Black Bears - Compare and Contrast
Explore the concept of compare and contrast with your second grade students. There are no moving images in this video; it just has narration. (01:57) Great for improving listening skills.
Towards an organisational model of interface
university structure as a means of serving Lifelong
The paper conceptualises on the experiences of the Centre of Information
Society Technologies (CIST), Sofia University, Bulgaria, in serving the
learning and training needs of non-university audiences who fall in situations
that can be described as lifelong learning-determined. In developing this
conceptualisation we use the research findings and policy agendas in two
distinct areas Lifelong Learning, and Higher Education Systems. More
specifically we explore the organisational and management
EDUCATION IN INFORMATICS AT SOFIA UNIVERSITY
- CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE PLANS
The paper presents some real experiences, emerging models and lessons learnt based on
the case of Sofia University - Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics (FMI), and its
partners. Sofia University has always played a very important role for the development of
the country. The university experiences a lot of challenges related to the overall
transformation of the economic and social system in the country, the changing models of
education, the new role of the universities in the knowledge-based s
Design of an eLearning System for Accreditation of
Non-formal Learning
This paper deals with issues related to the non-formal learning in vocational
education, and the role of ICT for providing appropriate accreditation model in such
education. The presented conclusions are based on the Leonardo da Vinci project
LeoSPAN. The paper emphasises on the development of a model and a prototype
of an adaptive eLearning system that ensures the pre-defined learner outcomes.
One of the advantages of the eLearning system is the flexibility for people who
upgrade and improve th
