Featured This Week: Bob Jensen's
Favorite Pictures of Mt. Lafayette
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/Mountains/Layfayette01/Lafayette01.htm
With nine pages quoted from Bill Bryson's
traumatic climb up Mt. Lafayette
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (Anchor Books, 2007)
Tidbits on August 19, 2013
Bob Jensen
at Trinity University
From the University of Pittsburgh
Birds of America (435 birds mounted online) ---
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/a/audubon/
The Darlington Digital Library (bird photographs) ---
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/d/darlington
Audubon Magazine - Multimedia ---
http://archive.audubonmagazine.org/multimedia/index.html
America in Color from 1939-1943 ---
http://extras.denverpost.com/archive/captured.asp
Tree Tunnels ---
http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/magnificent-tree-tunnels
Historic New England ---
http://www.historicnewengland.org/
Black Locust ---
http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/fact/rops1.htm
Trees in New England ---
Click Here
http://www.google.ca/search?q="Trees+in+New+England"&lr=&as_qdr=all&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=BS_HUYmzOtKs4AOGmICYBw&ved=0CEIQsAQ&biw=1152&bih=700
The New England Forest ---
http://www.fs.fed.us/ne/newtown_square/publications/resource_bulletins/pdfs/scanned/OCR/ne_rb124.pdf
An Animated History of the Tulip ---
http://www.openculture.com/2013/06/an_animated_history_of_the_tulip.html
USDA: The People's Garden ---
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?navid=PEOPLES_GARDEN
From the University of Pittsburgh
Birds of America (435 birds mounted online) ---
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/a/audubon/
The Darlington Digital Library (bird photographs) ---
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/d/darlington
Audubon Magazine - Multimedia ---
http://archive.audubonmagazine.org/multimedia/index.html
America in Color from 1939-1943 ---
http://extras.denverpost.com/archive/captured.asp
Tree Tunnels ---
http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/magnificent-tree-tunnels
Gudvangen, Norway ---
Click Here
http://www.google.ca/search?q="Gudvangen"&lr=&as_qdr=all&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=6izdUZndCZK54APA9IDoAw&ved=0CDwQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=497
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
Tidbits on June 11, 2013
Bob Jensen
For earlier editions of Tidbits go to
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
For earlier editions of New Bookmarks go to
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Click here to search Bob Jensen's web site if you have key words to enter ---
Search Site.
For example if you want to know what Jensen documents have the term "Enron"
enter the phrase Jensen AND Enron. Another search engine that covers Trinity and
other universities is at
http://www.searchedu.com/.
Bob Jensen's past presentations and lectures
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/resume.htm#Presentations
Bob Jensen's Threads ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
Bob Jensen's Home Page is at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/
Facebook is perhaps the
ultimate example of the old, wise saying: If you aren’t paying for a product,
then you ARE the product
Comparisons of Antivirus Software ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_antivirus_software#Microsoft_Windows
Based upon this analysis I chose F-Secure
The Cult of Statistical Significance:
How Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/DeirdreMcCloskey/StatisticalSignificance01.htm
How Accountics Scientists Should Change:
"Frankly, Scarlett, after I get a hit for my resume in The Accounting Review
I just don't give a damn"
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm
One more mission in what's left of my life will be to try to change this
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ---
http://plato.stanford.edu/
"100 Websites You Should Know and Use (updated!)," by Jessica Gross,
Ted Talk, August 3, 2007 ---
http://blog.ted.com/2007/08/03/100_websites_yo/
From the University of Pittsburgh
Birds of America (435 birds mounted online) ---
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/a/audubon/
The Darlington Digital Library (bird photographs) ---
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/d/darlington
Audubon Magazine - Multimedia ---
http://archive.audubonmagazine.org/multimedia/index.html
America in Color from 1939-1943 ---
http://extras.denverpost.com/archive/captured.asp
Tree Tunnels ---
http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/magnificent-tree-tunnels
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
Online Video, Slide Shows, and Audio
In the past I've provided links to various types of music and video available
free on the Web.
I created a page that summarizes those various links ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm
Lorenzo International Horse Show ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=nOeIAnhHAik&feature=related
Russian Commercial ---
http://www.youtube.com/embed/rv7dGhj5UlA
The Baby Bear versus the Hungry Mountain Lion ---
http://www.flixxy.com/bear-animal-nature-film.htm
NASA's Earth Observing System ---
http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Free music downloads ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm
One of my favorite clips of all time
Eleanor Powell & Fred Astaire "Begin the Beguine"
Tap Dancing
---
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox/1406ec0aae0b7077
Let's Dance ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=ab9i0s4WEY0&feature=related
Dueling Divas: Aretha Franklin and Dionne Warwick
Sing Two Classic Versions of ‘I Say a Little Prayer’ ---
http://www.openculture.com/2013/08/dueling-divas-aretha-franklin-and-dionne-warwick-sing-two-classic-versions-of-i-say-a-little-prayer.html
When the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Had a Concert
for One Person ---
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox/1407909477718493
See a Peruvian Prison Seized with Dance Fever as
They Try to Break a Guinness World Record ---
http://www.openculture.com/2013/08/see-a-peruvian-prison-seized-with-dance-fever-as-they-try-to-break-a-guinness-world-record.html
Amazing Grace Like You Never Heard It Before ---
http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=1312
Beethoven’s Ode to Joy Played With 167 Theremins
Placed Inside Matryoshka Dolls in Japan ---
http://www.openculture.com/2013/07/beethovens-ode-to-joy-played-with-167-theremins-placed-inside-matryoshka-dolls-in-japan.html
Petrucci Music Library ---
http://imslp.org/
Web outfits like
Pandora, Foneshow, Stitcher, and Slacker broadcast portable and mobile content
that makes Sirius look overpriced and stodgy ---
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2009/tc20090327_877363.htm?link_position=link2
Pandora (my favorite online music station) ---
www.pandora.com
TheRadio (online music site) ---
http://www.theradio.com/
Slacker (my second-favorite commercial-free online music site) ---
http://www.slacker.com/
Gerald Trites likes this
international radio site ---
http://www.e-radio.gr/
Songza:
Search for a song or band and play the selection ---
http://songza.com/
Also try Jango ---
http://www.jango.com/?r=342376581
Sometimes this old guy prefers the jukebox era (just let it play through) ---
http://www.tropicalglen.com/
And I listen quite often to Soldiers Radio Live ---
http://www.army.mil/fieldband/pages/listening/bandstand.html
Also note U.S. Army Band recordings
---
http://bands.army.mil/music/default.asp
Bob Jensen's threads on nearly all types of free
music selections online ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Music.htm
Photographs and Art
25 Stunning National Park Vistas ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/best-us-national-park-views-2013-8
Museum of Fine Arts: Hippie Chic ---
http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/hippie-chic
The Getty Puts 4600 Art Images Into the Public
Domain (and There’s More to Come) ---
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox/1407cba473cbff67
1922 Photo: Claude Monet Stands on the Japanese Footbridge He
Painted Through the Years ---
http://www.openculture.com/2013/08/1922-photo-claude-monet-stands-on-the-japanese-footbridge.html
Free: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the
Guggenheim Offer 474 Free Art Catalogues Online ---
http://www.openculture.com/2013/08/free-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art-and-the-guggenheim-offer-474-free-art-catalogues-online.html
Bob Jensen's threads on history, literature and art ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#History
Free Library of Philadelphia: Historical Images of Philadelphia ---
http://libwww.freelibrary.org/hip/
Railroads and the Making of Modern America ---
http://railroads.unl.edu/
Transcontinental Railroad Pictures and Exhibits ---
http://cprr.org/Museum/Exhibits.html
Steamtown National Historic Site (steam locomotives) ---
http://www.nps.gov/stea/index.htm
American Railroad Journal ---
http://digital.library.umsystem.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?page=home;c=arj
Railroad Picture Archives ---
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/
American Railroad Journal ---
http://digital.library.umsystem.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?page=home;c=arj
The Countryside Transformed: The Railroad and the Eastern Shore of Virginia,
1870-1935 ---
http://eshore.vcdh.virginia.edu/index.php
The Allure of the Automobile (museum)
http://www.high.org/main.taf?p=3,1,1,17,1
Oregon State Parks and Recreation ---
http://www.oregonstateparks.org/
Philadelphia Jewish Archives Photographs ---
http://digital.library.temple.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15037coll15
An Eccentric Chinese Professor Spent Years Building This Bizarre Mountaintop
Villa Above A Beijing High-Rise ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-man-mountaintop-villa-in-beijing-2013-8
NASA's Earth Observing System ---
http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/
For your "bucket list":
America’s Supposed Favorite Summer Towns ---
Click Here
http://247wallst.com/special-report/2013/08/13/americas-favorite-summer-towns/?utm_source=247WallStDailyNewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AUG142013A&utm_campaign=DailyNewsletter
It's difficult to rank summer towns apart from summer regions.
For example, hikers tend to flock to virtually all parts of the 2,100
Appalachian Trail. I have new pictures of one part of that trail at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/Mountains/Layfayette01/Lafayette01.htm
Online Books, Poems, References, and Other Literature
In the past I've provided links to various
types electronic literature available free on the Web.
I created a page that summarizes those various links ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
"The Best Books on Writing, NYC, Animals, and More: A
Collaboration with the New York Public Library," by Maria Popova, Brain
Pickings, August 3, 2013 ---
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/07/29/nypl-books/
The Chicago Homer (classical studies) ---
http://digital.library.northwestern.edu/homer/
Classical Studies Resources ---
http://classicalstudy.luckycontent.com/
Edgar Allen Poe ---
http://eserver.org/books/poe/
Knowing Poe ---
http://knowingpoe.thinkport.org/default_flash.asp
I Know Poe
http://www.iknowpoe.com/
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” Read by Christopher
Walken, Vincent Price, and Christopher Lee ---
http://www.openculture.com/2013/08/edgar-allan-poes-the-raven-read-by-christopher.html
Forgotten Chapters of Boston's Literary History
(Feud Between Longfellow and Poe) ---
http://www.bostonliteraryhistory.com/
The Pit And The Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) ---
Click Here
Landor's Cottage by Edgar Allan
Poe (1809 1849) ---
Click Here
A Descent Into The Maelstrom
by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) ---
Click Here
Eleonora by Edgar Allan
Poe (1809-1849) ---
Click Here
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” Read by
Christopher Walken, Vincent Price, and Christopher Lee ---
http://www.openculture.com/2013/08/edgar-allan-poes-the-raven-read-by-christopher.html
Berenice by Edgar Allan
Poe (1809-1849) ---
Click Here
Hap-Frog by Edgar Allan
Poe (1809-1849) ---
Click Here
Mellonta Tauta by Edgar
Allan Poe (1809-1849) ---
Click Here
The Balloon Hoax by Edgar
Allan Poe (1809-1849) ---
Click Here
William Wilson by Edgar
Allan Poe (1809-1849) ---
Click Here
From the Scout Report on September 14, 2008
The Bibliothecary: Ed & Edgar ---
http://bibliothecary.squarespace.com/ed-and-edgar/
The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore ---
http://www.eapoe.org/
Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site ---
http://www.nps.gov/edal/
Edgar Allan Poe ---
http://etext.virginia.edu/poe/poebiog.html
Scholar, Athlete, and Artist: Edgar Allan Poe at
University of Virginia ---
http://www.literarytraveler.com/literary_articles/edgar_allan_poe_author.aspx
In an effort to return Edgar Allan Poe to the City
of Brotherly Love, scholar and pundit issues a challenge Baltimore
Has Poe: Philadelphia Wants Him [Free registration may be required]
---
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/us/06poe.html?em
The First Sex Manual Published in North America, 1766 ---
http://www.openculture.com/2013/08/the-first-sex-manual-published-in-north-america-1766.html
The “Celebrity Lecture Series” From Michigan State Features
Talks by Great Writers of Our Time ---
http://www.openculture.com/2013/08/the-celebrity-lecture-series-from-michigan-state-features-talks-by-great-writers-of-our-time.html
Free Science Fiction Classics on the Web: Huxley, Orwell, Asimov, Gaiman &
Beyond
Free Philip K. Dick: Download 11 Great Science Fiction Stories
Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Classic, The Foundation Trilogy,
Dramatized for Radio (1973)
Neil Gaiman’s Free Short Stories
425 Free eBooks: Download to Kindle, iPad/iPhone & Nook
From Stanford + Connects in August 2013
Fiction is in fashion this
summer for President Hennessy, Vice Provost Harry
J. Elam Jr., and other Stanford bookworms. Browse their
summer reading lists.
What's So Bad About Horse Meat, Anyway?
Professor Alvin
Roth, MS '73, PhD '74, recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in
Economics, talks to Businessweek about repugnance as a constraint
on the markets. Add your voice to the debate on the
Stanford+Connects blog.
Stanford Is Headed to Georgia »
Feed your mind with talks on neuroscience, energy,
race and identity, improvisation and Stanford students today.
Stanford is heading to Atlanta on
November 2, and you're invited.
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Free Electronic Literature ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Free Online Textbooks, Videos, and Tutorials ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Free Tutorials in Various Disciplines ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials
Edutainment and Learning Games ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Edutainment
Open Sharing Courses ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Now in Another Tidbits Document
Political Quotations on August 19, 2013
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2013/TidbitsQuotations081913.htm
U.S. National Debt Clock ---
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Also see
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
Peter G.
Peterson Website on Deficit/Debt Solutions ---
http://www.pgpf.org/
Bob Jensen's health care messaging updates ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Health.htm
From the Harvard Business School: Working Knowledge ---
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/
Topics ---
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/topics/
Accounting and Control is listed under Finance ---
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/topics/accountingandcontrol.html
From Wayne State University: Changing Face of the Auto Industry ---
http://dlxs.lib.wayne.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?c=cfai
The Allure of the Automobile (museum)
---
http://www.high.org/main.taf?p=3,1,1,17,1
One of the Highest Tax State in the USA Creates Tax-Free Zones Around Its
State Universities
"The New York Tax Advantage," by Kevin Kiley, Inside Higher Ed,
August 14, 2013 ---
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/08/14/new-yorks-tax-free-plan-puts-suny-center-economic-development
Why you should put your best teachers in the first course taken in a
particular curriculum
"‘Majoring in a Professor," by Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher
Education, August 12, 2013 ---
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/08/12/study-finds-choice-major-most-influenced-quality-intro-professor
Jensen Comment
Keep in mind that "best" is a relative term. The "best" teachers in the first
two years of college (where inspiration is extremely important) are not
necessarily the "best" teachers in advanced courses where scholarship depth
takes on greater importance.
In some colleges the two basic accounting courses are "filler" courses in a
professor's workload. For example, the professor might be assigned two sections
of advanced accounting and one section of basic accounting on the assumption
that the basic accounting course takes almost no preparation. However, to be
really good at teaching the basic accounting course there should be a lot of
preparation and thought given to pedagogy.
In some colleges, administrators teach sections of basic course. If the
administrators are very busy with their administrative duties this can be a
mistake.
In some universities the two basic accounting courses are taught by teaching
assistants (from the doctoral program) and adjuncts (hired from the street).
This usually leads to high variance in course quality. For example, it is
sometimes assumed that a practicing accountant will be very inspiring in terms
of looking toward accounting as a career. My experience, however, is that this
is often a very bad assumption. Sometimes accountants from the street seek to
supplement their incomes with teaching because they are not busy enough being
great practicing accountants.
The best teachers are usually not the easiest teachers
What the Best Law Teachers Do (Harvard University Press) ---
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2013/08/what-the.html
The "best" lecture-method teachers are often not the best case-method
teachers where nevewrt giving out answers becomes an art and a science
for deeper and long-lasting metacognitive learning ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/265wp.htm
The "most popular" teachers are often not the "best" teachers. Much depends
on how "most popular" is defined. The RateMyProfessor site is replete with
comments that recommend teachers who are easy graders in spite of being lousy
teachers in the eyes of the students going for the easy grades ---
http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/
"'Zombies in the Academy'," by Serena Golden, Inside Higher Ed,
August 12, 2013 ---
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/08/12/new-book-examines-higher-education-through-lens-zombie-apocalypse
"Should College Athletes be paid?" by Steven Mintz, Ethics Sage,
August 13, 2013 ---
http://www.ethicssage.com/2013/08/should-college-athletes-be-paid.html
Jensen Comment
This raises all sorts of matching questions regarding revenues and costs. Should
revenues from the extremely popular Women's basketball team at the University of
Connecticut go into an athletes' compensation pool that also rewards the less
popular softball and volleyball players?
Should revenues from the extremely popular medical school faculty performing
services at the Stanford University Hospital go into an faculty compensation
pool that also rewards the less popular classics professors or should it only go
into a medical faculty compensation pool?
"What the Hell Has Happened to College Sports?" Chronicle
of Higher Ed, December 11, 2011 ---
http://chronicle.com/article/What-the-Hell-Has-Happened-to/130071/
Bob Jensen's threads on athletics
controversies in higher education ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#Athletics
The LSAT Is Not the Problem and Affirmative Action Is Not the Answer
---
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2013/08/nlj-dont-blame.html
Passage of the Bar exam is a problem for minorities ---
California Law School Sues State Bar, Claims First Amendment Right to Hide
Bar Passage Stats ---
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2013/08/california-.html
"Public Universities With The Worst Graduation Rates," by Blair Briody,
The Fiscal Times, May 17, 2012 ---
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2012/05/17/11-Public-Universities-with-the-Worst-Graduation-Rates.aspx#page1
Jensen Comment
Most of the worst have acceptance rates exceeding 80%. One even accepted 99.7%
of the applicants. Here's a sampling:
1. Southern University at New Orleans, Louisiana
Graduation rate: 4%
Undergraduates: 2,590
Median SAT score: 715
Pell Grant recipients: 75.8%
In-State Tuition and fees: $3,906
Acceptance rate: 48.4%
2. University of the District of Columbia, Washington D.C
Graduation rate: 7.7%
Undergraduates: 5,311
Pell Grant recipients: 44.7%
In-State Tuition and fees: $7,000
Acceptance rate: 63.2%
3. Kent State University-East Liverpool, East Liverpool Ohio
Graduation rate: 8.9%
Undergraduates: 1,371
Pell Grant recipients: 51.2%
In-State Tuition and fees: $5,288
Acceptance rate: 88.7%
Just because the graduation rates are so low (e.g., 4%) is not necessarily
due to rigorous academic standards. In many (most?) instances the drop outs just
disappear before graduation. Over half even had Pell Grants. Not ranked is the
Chicago State University which was revealed, in a Chicago Tribune
investigation, of retaining students term-after-term, with cumulative grade
averages of 0.00 just to collect more government money.
Unacceptable Dropout Rates
But at a recent meeting about assessment, I learned
the following tantalizing datum: Sixty-three percent of our full-time students
who complete their first semester with a 3.0 or better grade-point average
graduate within six years. When full-time students finish the first semester
with a GPA below 2.0, only 9 percent graduate within six years. This sort of
tracking, conceived and performed by experts in assessment and statistical
analysis, ought to spur professors to think about their mission, about their
individual courses, and about their institutions’ political status in a state or
system. What are we teaching our students? How can we convey to first-year
students the seriousness of creditable habits? How can we discuss seriously with
outside stakeholders the challenges posed by teaching adults? . . . Many faculty
are suspicious about assessment, whether for ideological reasons or because they
perceive it as an unfunded administrative mandate. And faculty hear numbers,
especially subpar numbers, as an indictment of their expertise or their empathy
for students. I have reacted this way myself. Now, however, I try to remember
that numbers are an opening salvo, not the final word: We’ve got a measurement —
how do we improve it? That number looks bad — but what are its causes? Is the
instrument measuring the right thing? Are we administering it in the best way?
Are we making sure there’s a tight fit between assessment measures and intended
learning outcomes? Until we begin to think clearly, both within departments and
across schools and even across peer institutions — about what our students are
up to, our own cultural position will continue to seem in crisis.
Jason B. Jones, "Start With a Number," Inside Higher Ed, November 16,
2007 ---
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2007/11/16/jones
Over half the first-year students don't return the second year
A new report from the Public Policy Institute of
California criticizes the state’s community colleges for having low graduation
and transfer rates. Half of all students in the mammoth system — the largest in
American higher education — don’t return for a second year, the report found.
The transfer rate for Asian students was double the rate for students from other
minority groups.
Inside Higher Ed, November 17, 2006 ---
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/11/17/qt
Graduation rates at four-year colleges and
universities are heavily influenced by the socioeconomic background of students,
with rates dropping as the proportion of low-income students enrolled increases,
according to a report released Thursday by the National Center for Education
Statistics. Women graduate at higher rates than do men, the study found.
Inside Higher Ed, November 17, 2006 ---
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/11/17/qt
Success with Community College Success Courses
Sixty percent of students who enrolled in for-credit
“success courses,” classes that teach students skills for note-taking,
test-taking and time management, had “academic success” during the study’s five
years, while just 40 percent of students who did not take success classes had
the same success and had earned a degree or certificate, transferred to a state
university or continued enrollment in a community college. In a field where
student retention is a major concern, the results of the study,
“Do Student Success
Courses Actually Help Community College Students Succeed?”
are significant, illustrating that success courses really
are effective in helping students succeed.
Jennifer Epstein, "Teaching Success," Inside Higher Ed, June 18, 2007 ---
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/06/18/success
In one century we went from teaching
Latin and Greek in high school to offering remedial English in college.
Joseph Sobran as quoted by Mark
Shapiro at
http://irascibleprofessor.com/comments-11-27-07.htm
August 14, 2013 reply from Patricia Walters
I don't disagree with you. Yes, socially,
economically, and educationally disadvantaged children and young adults
would likely do better at better schools but theses schools are generally
not in their neighborhoods, they are not being recruited to those schools,
and the overall costs of getting and education might be higher.
Somewhere (probably here) I read an article about
students whose qualifications would likely get them into elite schools but
they don't apply to those schools because they are not encouraged to apply.
They are not in their mindset because the high schools they go to are also
poorer in many ways from more affluent schools.
It's easy to right a damning article about results
without taking a harder look at the societal issues that create both the
problems these schools face and the incentives that you point out that
encourage the schools to game the system.
Obviously students who attend these schools and for
profit schools want an education and a higher quality life. The tragedy is
that we complain that the only choices they have do not provide either of
those goals.
What do you suggest we do about it?
Pat
August 14, 2013 reply from Bob Jensen
Hi Pat,
Many of the constituencies we're talking about are victims of really
lousy K-12 schools and home environments that are 180 degrees the opposite
from home environments in Finland (where two-parent homes do make a
difference).
I think the answer for college education for disadvantaged constituencies
is almost hopeless until we do better at the K-12 level, but this is a much
larger societal problem when eager-to-learn children are ambushed on the way
to school by gangs and return home to a drug-addicted single parent.
Bill Gates and others are trying to solve the problem for a small
proportion of disadvantaged students with charter schools having great
teachers and intense 10-hour days six days a week. This demonstrates that
the disadvantaged students are not hopeless learners --- they can become
great learners.
But removing the top 1% of the best learners from gangland does not serve
the 99% that are left to struggle in gangland. I think offering them hope
for a college degree in lousy colleges is not the answer.
We all shudder at Orwell's Big Brother, but maybe Big Brother has to take
policing control of the ganglands before our disadvantaged urban children
commence to have a chance. We now throw a lot of money at urban K-12
schools. If we take the gangland dangers out of those schools perhaps they
will begin to perform as intended.
Poor schools in rural parts of the USA face a somewhat different problem.
Improving those schools along with providing better incentives to learn
(such as paying students for grades) may be a better solution in those rural
areas.
The bottom line is that I have no solutions that have not previously been
suggested by scholars who live with these problems every day. Any solution
will take lots of money. But money alone for schools is not the answer., And
throwing taxpayer money at lousy colleges offering false hopes is certainly
not the answer.
I would suggest the German model that makes learning the trades more
respectable and financially rewarding after many years of learning and
apprenticeship. Laborers in Germany do not have to get college degrees to be
respected for their talents and skills.
Respectfully,
Bob Jensen
"IBM and Universities Team Up to Close
a 'Big Data' Skills Gap," by Lee Gardner, Chronicle of Higher Education,
August 14, 2013 ---
http://chronicle.com/article/IBMUniversities-Team-Up/141111/?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
"Why the Cheap Firefox Smartphone Isn't So Cheap," by Joshua Brustein,
Bloomberg Businessweek, August 13, 2013 ---
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-08-13/why-the-cheap-firefox-smartphone-isnt-so-cheap?campaign_id=DN081313
Jensen Comment
I suspect a much better decision would be to sell on Amazon at much lower
prices.
"'Spoofers' Use Fake GPS Signals to Knock a Yacht Off Course: Civilian GPS
is vulnerable to being spoofed—and researchers are searching for a way to stop
it," by Aviva Hope Rutkin, MIT's Technology Review, August 14, 2013
---
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http://www.technologyreview.com/news/517686/spoofers-use-fake-gps-signals-to-knock-a-yacht-off-course/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20130814
Jensen Comment
Welcome to a Somali Pirate's den.
This may be important for AIS curriculum designs
Click Here
http://readwrite.com/2013/08/09/why-javascript-will-become-the-dominant-programming-language-of-the-enterprise#awesm=~oelsieqmjCnmDv
Bob Jensen's sadly neglected JavaScript tutorials ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/HelpersVideos.htm#JavaScript
One advantage of JavaScript is it's simplicity relative to other scripting
alternatives.
How to Let Someone Else Use Your Computer Without Giving Them Access To
All Your Stuff ---
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http://www.howtogeek.com/170269/how-to-let-someone-else-use-your-computer-without-giving-them-access-to-all-your-stuff/
"A New and Improved Nexus 7," by David A. Pogue, The New York
Times, August 8, 2013 ---
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/08/a-new-and-improved-nexus-7/
OK, we get it, Google — you want to be a hardware
company.
Well, guess what? You’re actually doing a pretty
good job of it!
One year ago, you offered a seven-inch tablet
called the Nexus 7. You priced it at a remarkably low $200. You admitted
that you didn’t make any money on it, in hopes of selling more books,
movies, music and TV shows
¶You priced the new Nexus 7 higher: $230 for the
16GB model. The 16GB iPad Mini has a larger screen, but it’s also $100 more.
The value of the Nexus 7 looks even better next in the configurations with
32 gigabytes of storage ($270, versus $430 on the Mini) and, coming soon,
LTE cellular Internet ($350, versus $560 on the Mini).
¶Meanwhile, you’ve improved the tablet in dozens of
ways. You’ve added a (mediocre) camera on the back, although, bizarrely,
you’ve moved the front camera way off-center. You added stereo speakers:
they are fine, but not as strong or clear as the Kindle Fire’s. You threw in
(very slow) wireless charging, meaning that you can set the thing down onto
a compatible charging base without actually plugging in a cable.
¶You’ve made the thing slightly slimmer, slightly
lighter (0.64 pounds) and slightly narrower — only 4.5 inches wide, which
means that a large hand can hold the entire thing edge to edge and still
have a free thumb to tap the screen.
¶And that screen — wowsers. It’s glorious, bright
and sharp. You maintain, Google, that at 323 dots per inch, it’s the
sharpest of any 7-inch tablet. I believe you’re right.
¶It’s too bad you made those design compromises,
though. That nice pleather back is gone — on the new model, it’s just hard
plastic with a slightly rubbery coating. The corners are sharper. And you
made the margins on the short ends much bigger than on the long sides,
making this long, skinny tablet look even longer and skinnier.
¶I’m so glad you focused on speed, Google.
According to CNET’s benchmark testing, the new Nexus 7 was faster in most
tests against the Mini and rival tablets from Samsung and Sony. Responses to
touches on the screen are smooth and fluid. Battery life is around a day and
a half of typical on-and-off use.
¶The operating system, Android 4.3 (which you still
call Jelly Bean), has a few tiny tweaks and a couple of bigger improvements.
First, parents can set up a children’s account so that children can access
only apps that parents approve. (And it can restrict access to in-app
purchases). Weirdly, though, parents can’t make the Settings app off-limits,
so the truly rebellious offspring can still wreak some havoc.
¶Second, you added Bluetooth 4.0, which lets
certain accessories — usually activity trackers like the Fitbit Flex —
communicate wirelessly without draining the battery much.
¶Continued in article
Bob Jensen's threads on gadgets ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob4.htm#Technology
"Scavenging Radio Waves Gives Battery-Free Gadgets a Wireless Connection:
Devices that can make wireless connections even without an onboard battery could
spread computing power into everything you own," by Tom Simonite, MIT's
Technology Review, August 14, 2013 ---
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http://www.technologyreview.com/news/518111/devices-connect-with-borrowed-tv-signals-and-need-no-power-source/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20130815
Those Big Flubs versus Those Winning Discoveries in the Evolution of
Scientific Knowledge Over Time
Book Reviews of "Science, Right and Wrong: The evolution of knowledge"
by Sam Kean
American Scholar
Summer 2013
http://theamericanscholar.org/science-right-and-wrong/#.Uga0521sjmt
Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything, By
Philip Ball, University of Chicago Press, 465 pp., $35
Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein—Colossal Mistakes by Great
Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe, By
Mario Livio, Simon & Schuster, 341 pp., $26
Aristotle called it aimless and witless. St.
Augustine condemned it as a disease. The ancient Greeks blamed it for
Pandora’s unleashing destruction on the world. And one early Christian
leader even pinned the fall of Lucifer himself on idle, intemperate,
unrestrained curiosity.
Today, the exploration of new places and new ideas
seems self-evidently a good thing. For much of human history, though,
priests, politicians, and philosophers cast a suspicious eye on curious
folks. It wasn’t just that staring at rainbows all day or pulling apart
insects’ wings seemed weird, even childish. It also represented a colossal
waste of time, which could be better spent building the economy or reading
the Bible. Philip Ball explains in his thought-provoking new book,
Curiosity, that only in the 1600s did society start to sanction (or at
least tolerate) the pursuit of idle interests. And as much as any other
factor, Ball argues, that shift led to the rise of modern science.
We normally think about the early opposition to
science as simple religious bias. But “natural philosophy” (as science was
then known) also faced serious philosophical objections, especially about
the trustworthiness of the knowledge obtained. For instance, Galileo used a
telescope to discover both the craters on our moon and the existence of
moons orbiting Jupiter. These discoveries demonstrated, contra the ancient
Greeks, that not all heavenly bodies were perfect spheres and that not all
of them orbited Earth. Galileo’s conclusions, however, relied on a huge
assumption—that his telescope provided a true picture of the heavens. How
could he know, his critics protested, that optical instruments didn’t garble
or distort as much as they revealed? It’s a valid point.
Another debate revolved around what now seems like
an uncontroversial idea: that scientists should perform experiments. The
sticking point was that experiments, almost by definition, explore nature
under artificial conditions. But if you want to understand nature, shouldn’t
the conditions be as natural as possible—free from human
interference? Perhaps the results of experiments were no more reliable than
testimony extracted from witnesses under torture.
Specific methods aside, critics argued that
unregulated curiosity led to an insatiable desire for novelty—not to true
knowledge, which required years of immersion in a subject. Today, in an
ever-more-distracted world, that argument resonates. In fact, even though
many early critics of natural philosophy come off as shrill and
small-minded, it’s a testament to Ball that you occasionally find yourself
nodding in agreement with people who ended up on the “wrong” side of
history.
Ultimately, Curiosity is a Big Ideas book.
Although Newton, Galileo, and others play important roles, Ball wants to
provide a comprehensive account of early natural philosophy, and that means
delving into dozens of other, minor thinkers. In contrast, Mario Livio’s
topsy-turvy book, Brilliant Blunders, focuses on Big Names in science
history. It’s a telling difference that whereas Ball’s book, like a Russian
novel, needs an appendix with a cast of characters, Livio’s characters
usually go by one name—Darwin, Kelvin, Pauling, Hoyle, and Einstein.
Livio’s book is topsy-turvy because, rather than
repeat the obvious—these were some smart dudes—he examines infamous mistakes
they made. He also indulges in some not always convincing armchair
psychology to determine how each man’s temperament made him prone to commit
the errors he did.
For those of us who, when reading about such
thinkers, can’t help but compare our own pitiful intellects with theirs,
this focus on mistakes is both encouraging and discouraging. It’s
encouraging because their mistakes remind us that they were fallible, full
of the same blind spots and foibles we all have. It’s discouraging because,
even at their dumbest, these scientists did incredible work. Indeed, Livio
argues that their “brilliant blunders” ended up benefiting science overall.
Take Kelvin’s error. During William Thomson
Kelvin’s heyday in the later 1800s, various groups of scientists had an
enormous row over the age of Earth, in large part because Darwin’s theory of
natural selection seemed to require eons upon eons of time. Unfortunately,
geologists provided little clarity here: they could date fossils and rock
strata only relatively, not absolutely, so their estimates varied wildly.
Into this vacuum stepped Kelvin, a mathematical physicist who studied heat.
Kelvin knew that Earth had probably been a hot, molten liquid in the past.
So if he could determine Earth’s initial temperature, its current
temperature, and its rate of cooling, he could calculate its age. His
initial estimate was 20 million years.
Continued in book reviews
Real Science versus Pseudo Science ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm#Pseudo-Science
"The World’s Best (And Worst) Scientific Institutions Ranked By
Discipline: A new website ranks the world’s scientific institutions by
discipline and shows their location on a global map," MIT's Technology
Review, August 7, 2013 ---
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http://www.technologyreview.com/view/517606/the-worlds-best-and-worst-scientific-institutions-ranked-by-discipline/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20130807
Jensen Comment
The poor rankings in Russia and China are consistent with the higher education
poor reputations for cheating and plagiarism in those nations. There appears to
be a correlation between quality of scientific institutions and academic
integrity in the education system.
"The Best Books on Writing, NYC, Animals, and More: A Collaboration with
the New York Public Library," by Maria Popova, Brain Pickings, August
3, 2013 ---
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/07/29/nypl-books/
"Annie Dillard on Writing," by Maria
Popova, Brain Pickings, August 9, 2013 ---
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/08/09/annie-dillard-on-writing/
Bob Jensen's helpers for writers are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob3.htm#Dictionaries
"The Man Who Would Overthrow Harvard:
Can the Minerva Project do to Ivy League universities what Amazon did to
Borders?" by Matthew Kaminski, The Wall Street Journal, August 9,
2013 ---
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324110404578627712224845012.html?mod=djemEditorialPage_h
'If you think as we do," says Ben Nelson,
"Harvard's the world's most valuable brand." He doesn't mean only in higher
education. "Our goal is to displace Harvard. We're perfectly happy for
Harvard to be the world's second most valuable brand."
Listening to Mr. Nelson at his spare offices in San
Francisco's Mid-Market, a couple of adjectives come to mind. Generous (to
Harvard) isn't one. Nor immodest. Here's a big talker with bold ideas.
Crazy, too, in that Silicon Valley take-a-flier way.
Mr. Nelson founded and runs the Minerva Project.
The school touts itself as the first elite—make that "e-lite"—American
university to open in 100 years. Or it will be when the first class enters
in 2015. Mr. Nelson, who previously led the online photo-sharing company
Snapfish, wants to topple and transcend the American academy's economic and
educational model.
And why not? Higher education's product-delivery
system—a professor droning to a limited number of students in a room—dates
back a thousand years. The industry's physical plant (dorms, classrooms,
gyms) often a century or more. Its most expensive employees, tenured
faculty, can't be fired. The price of its product (tuition) and operating
costs have outpaced inflation by multiples.
In similar circumstances, Wal-Mart took out
America's small retail chains. Amazon crushed Borders. And Harvard will have
to make way for . . . Minerva? "There is no better case to do something that
I can think of in the history of the world," says Mr. Nelson.
Some people regarded as serious folks have bought
the pitch, superlatives and all. Larry Summers, the former Harvard
president, agreed to be the chairman of Minerva's advisory board. Former
Sen. Bob Kerrey, who led the New School in New York from 2001-10, heads the
fundraising arm. Stephen Kosslyn, previously dean of social sciences at
Harvard, is Minerva's founding academic dean. Benchmark, a venture-capital
firm that financed eBay and Twitter, last year made its largest-ever seed
investment, $25 million, in Minerva.
Mr. Nelson calls Minerva a "reimagined university."
Sure, there will be majors and semesters. Admission requirements will be
"extraordinarily high," he says, as at the Ivies. Students will live
together and attend classes. And one day, an alumni network will grease job
and social opportunities.
But Minerva will have no hallowed halls, manicured
lawns or campus. No fraternities or sports teams. Students will spend their
first year in San Francisco, living together in a residence hall. If they
need to borrow books, says Mr. Nelson, the city has a great public library.
Who needs a student center with all of the coffee shops around?
Each of the next six semesters students will move,
in cohorts of about 150, from one city to another. Residences and high-tech
classrooms will be set up in the likes of São Paulo, London or
Singapore—details to come. Professors get flexible, short-term contracts,
but no tenure. Minerva is for-profit.
The business buzzword here is the "unbundling" of
higher education, or disaggregation. Since the founding of Oxford in the
12th century, universities, as the word implies, have tried to offer
everything in one package and one place. In the world of the Web and Google,
physical barriers are disappearing.
Mr. Nelson wants to bring this technological
disruption to the top end of the educational food chain, and at first look
Minerva's sticker price stands out. Freed of the costs of athletics, the
band and other pricey campus amenities, a degree will cost less than half
the average top-end private education, which is now over $50,000 a year with
room and board.
His larger conceit, inspired or outlandish, is to
junk centuries of tradition and press the reset button on the university
experience. Mr. Nelson offers a fully-formed educational philosophy with a
practiced salesman's confidence. At Minerva, introductory courses are out.
For Econ or Psych 101, buy some books or sign up for one of the MOOCs—as in
massive open online course—on the Web.
"Too much of undergrad education is the
dissemination of basic information that at that level of student you should
expect them to know," he says. "We just feel we don't have any moral
standing to charge you thousands of dollars for learning what you can learn
for free." Legacy universities move students to their degrees through
packed, required lecture classes, which Mr. Nelson calls their "profit
pools." And yes, he adds, all schools are about raking in money, even if
most don't pay taxes by claiming "not-for-profit" status.
In the Nelson dream curriculum, all incoming
students take the same four yearlong courses. His common core won't make
students read the Great Books. "We want to teach you how to think," Mr.
Nelson says. A course on "multimodal communications" works on practical
writing and debating skills. A "formal systems class" goes over "everything
from logic to advanced stats, Big Data, to formal reasoning, to behavioral
econ."
Over the next three years, Minervaites take small,
discussion-heavy seminars via video from their various locations. Classes
will be taped and used to critique not only how students handle the
subjects, but also how they apply the reasoning and communication skills
taught freshman year.
The idea for Minerva grew out of Mr. Nelson's
undergraduate experience. As a freshman at Penn's Wharton School, he took a
course on the history of the university. "I realized that what the
universities are supposed to be is not what they are," he says. "That the
concept of universities taking great raw material and teaching how it can
have positive impact in the world is gone."
Undergraduates come in, take some random classes,
settle on a major and "oh yeah, you're going to pick up critical thinking in
the process by accident." By his senior year, Mr. Nelson was pushing for
curriculum changes as chairman of a student committee on undergraduate
education. As a 21-year-old, he designed Penn's still popular program of
preceptorials, which are small, short-term and noncredit seminars offered
"for the sake of learning."
A Wharton bachelor's degree in economics took him
to consulting at Dean & Company in Washington, D.C. "My first six months,
what did the consulting firm teach me? They didn't teach me the basics of
how they do business. They taught me how to think. I didn't know how to
check my work. I didn't think about order of magnitude. I didn't have habits
of mind that a liberal arts education was supposed to have given me. And not
only did I not have it, none of my other colleagues had it—people who had
graduated from Princeton and Harvard and Yale."
After joining Snapfish in 1999 and leaving as CEO a
little over a decade later, Mr. Nelson, who is 38 and married with a
daughter, wrote and shopped around his business plan for Minerva. He says he
considered partnering with existing institutions, but decided to build a
21st-century school from scratch to offer the "ideal education."
Ideas like his are not in short supply. The catch?
No one has found a way to make a steady profit on an ed-tech startup.
Going back to the Internet bubble of the late
1990s, many have tried. With $120 million from Michael Milken and Larry
Ellison and a board of big names, UNext launched in 1997 as a Web-based
graduate university. It failed. Fathom, a for-profit online-learning venture
founded by Columbia University in 2000, closed three years and several
million in losses later.
In the current surge of investment in new
educational companies, Minerva has no direct competitor but plenty of
company. Udacity and Coursera, two prominent startups, are looking to
monetize the proliferation of MOOCs. UniversityNow offers cheap, practical
courses online and at brick-and-mortar locations in the Bay Area. And so on.
Education accounts for 8.7% of the U.S. economy,
but less than 1% of all venture capital transactions in 1995-2011 and only
0.3% of total public market capitalization, as of 2011, according to Global
Silicon Valley Advisors. The group predicts the market for postsecondary
"eLearning" and for-profit universities will grow by double digits annually
over the next five years.
Mr. Nelson's vision will be beside the point if
Minerva fails to attract paying students. He makes a straightforward
business case. Harvard and other top schools take only a small share of
qualified applicants, and for 30 years have refused to meet growing demand.
A new global middle class—some 1.5 billion people—desperately wants an elite
American education. "The existing model doesn't work," he says. "The market
was begging for a solution."
Audacious ideas are easy to pick apart, and Mr.
Nelson's are no exception. He repeats "elite" to describe a startup without
a single student. Reputations are usually earned over time. Many prospective
students dream of Harvard for the brand. Even at around $20,000 a year—no
bargain for middle-class Chinese 18-year-olds—Minerva won't soon have the
Harvard cachet.
Any education startup must also brave a regulatory
swamp. By opting out of government-backed student-loan programs, Minerva
won't have to abide by many of the federal rules for so-called Title IV (of
the relevant 1965 law) schools. Americans won't have an edge in admissions
and Minerva expects most students will come from abroad.
But Mr. Nelson wants to be part of the club whose
price of entry is accreditation. A cartel sanctioned by Congress places a
high barrier to entry for newcomers, stifling educational innovation.
Startups face a long slog to get accredited. So last month Minerva chose to
partner with the Keck Graduate Institute, or KGI, a small school founded in
1997 that is part of the Claremont consortium of colleges near Los Angeles.
Minerva degrees will now have, pending the regulatory OK, an accreditor's
seal of approval.
With this move, Mr. Nelson eased one headache and
raised some questions. KGI offers only graduate degrees in life sciences, an
unusual fit for an undergraduate startup. KGI isn't a recognizable
international name for Minerva to market. Yet Mr. Nelson says the schools
are "completely complementary" and the deal represents "zero change in our
mission."
Continued in article
Jensen Comment
The Minerva Project might lay claim to "overthrowing Harvard," but at best it
might overthrow only a small part of Harvard in terms of attracting students who
prefer to study in cities around the world. Will Minerva overthrow the Harvard
Medical School? Yeah right! Will Minerva overthrow the billions of dollars in
research laboratories on the Harvard campus? Yeah right! Is Minerva a better
choice than Harvard for natural science, nursing, pharmacy, and premed students?
I doubt it!
Is Minerva better for humanities, social
science, and business majors? Possibly in isolated instances. But there may be
gaps in curricula that are important prerequisites for graduate school studies.
Students intent on becoming CPAs in five years should never choose Minerva
simply because Minerva does not and probably will never offer the prerequisite
courses required for taking the CPA examination after five full-time years of
study. Of course these same students should never choose Harvard since Harvard
has no undergraduate accounting program feeding into its accounting Ph.D.
program.
Will Minerva displace the networking advantages
to students of having the world's most successful, powerful, and well-connected
Harvard alumni base? For example, many new graduates of the Harvard Business
School find that networking with HBS alumni, especially on Wall Street, is more
valuable than what was learned in HBS classes.
Minerva will never overthrow Harvard, although
it may steal away a miniscule number top first-year prospects. But will Harvard
admissions officers lose any sleep over these losses? Yeah right!
Lastly, if Harvard ever pours billions into a
program to compete with Minerva it will be no contest.
"Are Elite Colleges Worth It?" by Pamela Haag, Chronicle of Higher
Education, October 30, 2011 ---
http://chronicle.com/article/Are-Elite-Colleges-Worth-It-/129540/?sid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en
Bob Jensen's threads on higher education
controversies ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm
It's not a question of if; It's only a question of when: MOOCs are
coming to K-12 ---
http://online.qmags.com/TJL0813?sessionID=4CB36C8DBEEC3C846A1D7E17F&cid=2399838&eid=18342#pg1&mode1
See the article beginning on Page 20
New tools to prevent high tech cheating ---
http://online.qmags.com/TJL0813?sessionID=4CB36C8DBEEC3C846A1D7E17F&cid=2399838&eid=18342#pg1&mode1
See the article beginning on Page 213
America’s Great Shrinking Companies ---
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"These Amazing Maps Show How Threatened Your Home Is by Fires, Floods, and
Hurricanes," by Joseph Flaherty, Wired News, August 15, 2013 ---
http://www.wired.com/design/2013/08/this-data-viz-shows-path-of-destruction/?viewall=true
Starting up your company before, during, or after you go to college?
"What To Consider Before," by Bastiaan Janmaat, Fastco Labs,
August 2013 ---
http://www.fastcolabs.com/3014564/open-company/what-to-consider-before-starting-up-in-college
Some of today’s greatest tech companies, young and
old, were started by college students: Microsoft, Dell, Facebook, Snapchat.
In each case, their founders (Gates, Dell, Zuckerberg, and Spiegel) started
working on their companies while in school, and then dropped out to pursue
their ventures full-time. So is school a good place to start a business?
The advent of cheap hosting and other outsourced
infrastructure has brought the costs of starting a software company down
dramatically. Now more than ever, students are building companies from their
dorm rooms. This was especially salient for my cofounders and me at
Stanford, where, in the last 18 months, we experienced much of the optimism
and many of the resources that the
university has become well-known for. Here are
other things that student founders have going for them.
“How do I find a cofounder?” is the single most
common question asked of Paul Graham, and yet the hardest question for him
to answer. PG’s answer is that he can’t find you your cofounder,
because the
best candidates are folks you already know. My
cofounders, Mike and Alden, entered my life at Stanford. I met Mike through
our shared interest in organizing
founder meetups around campus. Mike and
Alden met through Stanford’s CS classes. It’s cliche but in my opinion very
true: Cofounders need to be respected and trusted peers first, and
colleagues second. College is a fantastic mixing ground because it’s a place
where people have natural flexibility, shared interest, and an objective of
getting to know each other.
Starting a company while at Stanford, we were able
to iterate our concept quickly in classes designed to “test the
entrepreneurial waters.” In the d.school’s “Launchpad,”
we were asked to create a working prototype in one
week, have a paying customer after two, and constantly iterate our product
according to user feedback. Over at the Graduate School of Business,
Professors Barnett and Rachleff taught us how to find “product-market
fit.” In both cases, the school environment helped
stimulate us to think about our ideas in ways that are hard to reproduce
outside of school. Outside of Stanford, many startups now adopt the “Lean
Startup” Methodology championed by Eric Ries and taught at many
forward-thinking universities around the world.
Mike, Alden, and I focused many class projects and
presentations on our own startup, garnering help and feedback from smart
classmates while enabling us to refine our business plan and pitch in a
low-risk environment. In school you can pick up a project, work on it with a
group of people, talk to potential customers, fail, and do it all over
again, without the risks that would come later in life; having to leave your
job to try something new, supporting a big family, etc.
People will almost always extend a helping hand to
students--even when they might not have helped that person outside the
context of school. It’s much easier to learn from and get to know future
partners, colleagues, or competitors while you’re still in school and they
feel an intrinsic desire to help you.
So with all those benefits and resources, shouldn’t
every entrepreneurially minded student be starting a business in school?
Notwithstanding all the benefits of starting a company in school, there are
challenges and risks that I came across the hard way when founding
LifeSwap (the predecessor to my current
startup--here’s
our pivot story). Consider these disadvantages:
Some of the startups founded in school arise
through class projects where a group of students proactively seek to uncover
and develop a business opportunity. This goes against the belief that true
innovation stems from authentic and unique insight into a problem. When
students come up with business ideas that are inauthentic to their own
experience, or lack deep insight into a pain point, there’s a risk that the
idea is more of a
vitamin than a painkiller, and thus less likely to
be a necessary solution.
Less-than-great ideas, rather than dying quickly,
stay alive due to falsely positive feedback from others. Affirmative
feedback from surveying classmates is too often taken as confirmation of a
use case, when it is a result of people’s inclination to be supportive. We
learned this lesson with LifeSwap: People loved the idea of experiencing
another job for a few hours! But our classmates weren’t our target market...
so make sure you get “out
of the building” to test your product with your
real customers.
Amidst that echo chamber of excitement about your
startup, and positive reactions from those around you, many student founders
experience an escalation of commitment. Before I knew it, I was working on
LifeSwap in lieu of a summer internship, and being asked if I was planning
to “drop out” before graduation. I considered it, as did a number of
classmates of mine. With hindsight, I’m relieved that I decided to stay in
school. My chances to start a business didn’t dissipate, while the
experience of attending graduate school and building a valuable network
would have been hard to replicate later on. One question to ask is whether
deferral is an option.
Continued in article
Bob Jensen's threads on careers ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob1.htm#careers
"iPad Suffers Significant Decline as Android Strengthens Tablet Position,"
by David Nagel, T.H.E. Journal, August 5, 2013 ---
http://thejournal.com/articles/2013/08/05/ipad-suffers-significant-decline-as-android-strengthens-tablet-position.aspx?=THE21
How to Use a 529 Plan to Pay for College ---
http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/money-finance/investing/how-use-529-plan-pay-college
2013 AAUP Faculty Salary Survey How much 1,142 colleges paid their faculty
members ---
http://chronicle.com/article/aaup-survey-data-2013/138309#id=144050
Jensen Comment
This database must be viewed in the context of the usual warnings. The most
serious limitation lies in supplemental income variations between different
universities. For example, some medical schools pay huge bonuses from services
to university hospitals.
Universities vary regarding how much private money (gifts) is devoted to
supporting summer salaries for research by newer faculty and by high-performing
faculty.
Universities vary regarding the amount of research expense funding given to
faculty. For example, a top researcher might get a $30,000 expense fund that,
among other things, supports taking her or his family to Europe while gathering
data.
There are also tremendous living cost differences. For example, a horse farm
outside Vermillion, South Dakota valued at $500,000 might be valued at $40
million west of the Stanford University campus. Property taxes and other living
costs in Manhattan are enormous relative to property taxes and living costs in
Vermillion. Also in Vermillion the public schools are relatively great. Forget
the public school system in NYC and most other large USA cities.
My point is that a $140,000 in Vermillion may go a lot further than a
$400,000 salary in a large USA city even if subsidized housing is available from
the employer. Without subsidized housing universities in large USA cities do not
pay enough to live close to the university. In come cases, faculty must commute
over an hour a day each way in order to live in remote suburbia.
What seem like high salaries to some faculty are only a drop in the bucket
relative to their total family income due to spousal income, book royalties,
solid gold consulting, etc. Stanford, NYU, Columbia, and UCLA must pay those
high salaries to persuade top faculty to even bother with teaching and remaining
on the faculty. Sometimes those high salaries are paid to motivate wealthy
faculty to stay on board until retirement in hopes of receiving they gifts of
millions of dollars later on. For example, a number of highly paid faculty at
Stanford University have given that University's Foundation tens of millions of
dollars later in life. Their earlier stellar salaries may actually turn out
to be good investments.
Bob Jensen's threads on higher education controversies ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm
"The Overworked College Administrator," by Barbara Mainwaring,
Inside Higher Ed, August 10, 2007 ---
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2007/08/10/mainwaring
How can teachers/researchers gain collegiate administrative skills?
Many professors worry that colleges these days prefer a
professional class of administrators to promoting faculty members. In turn, many
administrators complain that faculty members — however good at their teaching
and research — may lack key skills for more responsibility. A new program at
Simmons College —
one of six master’s institutions receiving grants
Tuesday to promote “faculty career flexibility” — aims to provide professors
with a path to pick up administrative skills, without just adding on to their
workloads. The grants are being awarded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which
last year
awarded similar grants to research universities.
Scott Jaschik, "Promoting Career Flexibility," Inside Higher Ed, January
30, 2008 ---
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/01/30/sloan
The Almanac of Higher Education
The new Almanac of Higher Education features national and state-by-state data on
colleges and universities, and their students, finances, and faculty and staff
members, as well as regional profiles of the issues facing academe across the
country.
Chronicle of Higher Education ---
http://chronicle.com/article/Almanac-2010-The-Profession/123918/
2011-12 Edition ---
http://chronicle.texterity.com/chronicle/20110826a?sub_id=yf6H2Es7OzfJ
Jensen Comment
There's a ton of financial information here, including salary juxtaposed against
cost of living in different regions.
Law School Faculty Salary Links from Paul Carone on the TaxProf Blog
on June 11, 2013
Following up on my recent post,
Law Faculty Salaries, 2012-13: Above the Law has blogged individual law
faculty salaries at these Top 20 public schools:
Jensen Comment
This is a better way to compare faculty salaries in top schools. Large surveys
like those of the AAUP, Chronicle of Higher Education, and the AACSB are
too skewed by small and low paying colleges.
Keep in mind that salary comparison in general can be like comparisons of
apples and kangaroos. Things to consider are the many aspects of "compensation"
contracts such as summer income assurances (research or teaching), expense
budgets (that in prestigious schools may be near $20,000 allowances for travel,
etc.), and most importantly access to additional consulting revenues. For
example, faculty at the Harvard Business School may make more consulting with
and teaching CPE credits in HBS alumni companies than they make from their
Harvard salaries.
Just being on the faculty of a prestigious university also opens doors to
lucrative expert witness offers, consulting offers, and textbook publishing
deals where prestigious faculty are offered deals to publish with lesser known
writers who write most of the books.
Some schools like Stanford, NYU, and Columbia offer faculty great housing
deals such as relatively low rents or 100-year lot leases for a dollar a year.
Bob Jensen's threads on higher education controversies ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm
"10 Visual Steps To Self-Publishing Your Book On Amazon,"
ReadWriteWeb, July 22, 2013 ---
http://readwrite.com/2013/07/22/10-simple-steps-to-self-publishing-your-book-on-amazon#awesm=~od74IixROnAXlS
Make Your Own eBook with Blurb ---
http://www.blurb.com/
Bob Jensen's threads on eBooks ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ebooks.htm
"A THOUGHTFUL NEW BOOK ON THE MARKET," by Joe Hoyle, Teaching Blog,
August 9, 2013 ---
http://joehoyle-teaching.blogspot.com/2013/08/a-thoughtful-new-book-on-market.html
Chromecast ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromecast
Streaming Television = Google's Chromecast + a hardware Dongle
"Chromecast Review: Finally, an Easy Way to Watch the Web on TV," by
Rachel Meltz, MIT's Technology Review, July 30, 2013 ---
Click Here
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/517656/chromecast-review-finally-an-easy-way-to-watch-the-web-on-tv/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20130731
Jensen Comment
I have pretty good experience with the HDMI connection on my high-end Dell
Laptop (called Studio) ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI
My wireless connection to the HDMI plug is rather unreliable so I instead
take my laptop close to the television set and use a hard wire connection. It
works great.
The problem is that lower-end cheaper laptops do not have the HDMI port. I
think the Chromecast dongle only requires a USB port.
At Iowa University students must distilling that corn
"U. of Iowa Tops Princeton Review's 2014 Party School List August 6, 2013,"
Inside Higher Ed, August 6, 2013 ---
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/08/06/u-iowa-tops-princeton-reviews-2014-party-school-list
Jensen Comment
Drink in Iowa City and eat in the nearby great Amish family-style restaurants.
The 20 Most Fun Colleges In America ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-20-most-fun-colleges-in-america-2013-8
Jensen Comment
Why can't there be fun without booze?
One Number That Shows The Reason For Microsoft's Upheaval ---
http://readwrite.com/2013/08/13/browser-desktop-mobile-microsoft-internet-explorer-upheaval#awesm=~oeCFdMHqlLIrTn
Jensen Comment
Personally IE market share seems to be a only a miniscule part of Microsoft's
enormous problems. The most important challenge facing Microsoft is in retaining
its huge market share of the operating systems market for PCs along with gaining
market share in the mobile device world and cloud worlds. Windows 8 was a
disaster because, in an effort to capture more of the mobile device and cloud
worlds, it discovered that long-time users of previous versions of Windows hated
Version 8. This coupled with lack of growth in the PC and laptop markets is the
main reason for the current "upheaval" in Microsoft.
It's a little like betting on Chevy Volt and not innovating the Silverado SUV
or making the Silverado SUV smaller and more fuel efficient when the customers
do not yet want to give up gas-guzzling heavy metal SUVs that can haul two
adults, six kids, a big dog, and a pet goat. If a big 2014 SUV is no longer
available, the family may be inclined to shoot for a million miles on their old
2010 model. This would not please General Motors any more than it does not
please Microsoft when so many customers prefer their old Windows 7 operating
systems to the new Windows 8 versions.
"Colleges (i.e., prestigious colleges) With Lenient Grades Get Six
Times as Many Grads Into B-School (and jobs)," by Louis Lavelle,
Bloomberg Businessweek, July 30, 2013 ---
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-30/colleges-with-lenient-grades-get-six-times-as-many-grads-into-b-school
Link to the Study ---
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0069258
Abstract
When explaining others' behaviors, achievements, and failures, it is common
for people to attribute too much influence to disposition and too little
influence to structural and situational factors. We examine whether this
tendency leads even experienced professionals to make systematic mistakes in
their selection decisions, favoring alumni from academic institutions with
high grade distributions and employees from forgiving business environments.
We find that candidates benefiting from favorable situations are more likely
to be admitted and promoted than their equivalently skilled peers. The
results suggest that decision-makers take high nominal performance as
evidence of high ability and do not discount it by the ease with which it
was achieved. These results clarify our understanding of the correspondence
bias using evidence from both archival studies and experiments with
experienced professionals. We discuss implications for both admissions and
personnel selection practices.
. . .
General Discussion
Many studies in the social psychology and
organizational behavior literatures have found that people tend to attribute
too much influence to disposition and too little influence to situational
factors impinging on the actor when explaining others' behaviors,
achievements, and failures. This common tendency, labeled the correspondence
bias or the fundamental attribution error, has been shown to be robust
across a variety of contexts and situations. Yet, to date, most of the
evidence about this bias comes from laboratory experiments with college
students as participants, and its implications for field settings and
organizational outcomes are seldom examined. Using data from both the
experimental laboratory and the field, we extend prior research by
investigating whether this tendency leads experienced professionals to make
systematic mistakes in their selection decisions, favoring alumni from
academic institutions with higher grade distributions and employees working
in favorable business climates. Our results indicate that candidates who
have demonstrated high performance thanks to favorable situations are more
likely to be rated highly and selected. Across all our studies, the results
suggest that experts take high performance as evidence of high ability and
do not sufficiently discount it by the ease with which that performance was
achieved. High grades are easier to achieve in an environment where the
average is high and so are less indicative of high performance than are the
same grades that were earned from an institution with lower grades on
average. Sky-high on-time percentages should be less impressive at an
airport that was running well before the manager got there. Although we
focused on two selection scenarios, we believe the results speak to other
selection and evaluation problems.
Indeed, we see consistent evidence of situation
neglect in contexts where political and business leaders are credited with
performance that derives directly from stochastic economic factors. Voters
face a Lewinian dilemma when they evaluate the performance of incumbent
politicians running for re-election. They should reward politicians who
create positive change for their constituencies while considering what
portion of those changes were due to lucky or exogenous factors. Wolfers
[41] finds that
voters, like our admissions professionals and executives, favor politicians
that had the good luck to work under favorable conditions. Voters are more
likely to reelect incumbents after terms marked by positive national
economic trends or (in the case of oil-rich states) high oil prices. CEOs
also benefit from fortuitous economic conditions for which they are not
responsible. Bertrand and Mullainathan
[42] present evidence
that CEO compensation is driven to equal degrees by their management and the
uncontrollable economic conditions in which they managed. Stakeholders in
these cases have strong incentives to reward leaders who add value above the
vagaries of the economy, but they seem blind to the difference.
It is often the case that structural and
situational factors are the most powerful influences on behavior. Within
organizations, for example, it is easier to succeed in some jobs than in
others
[43]. Sometimes
people will achieve positive outcomes simply because of a beneficent
environment. It is easier to achieve success as a manager when your team is
strong than when your team is weak. Likewise, it is easier to obtain a
strong education in an excellent private school than in an under-funded
public school. And it is easier to achieve high grades at schools where
higher grades are the norm. So it would be a mistake to neglect situational
effects on performance, but that is what our data suggest that even experts
and professionals tend to do.
Are we always doomed to make erroneous
correspondent inferences? Evidence suggests not; the bias is subject to a
number of moderating factors. These are useful to consider both because they
provide clues about the psychological mechanisms at work and because they
suggest potential debiasing treatments. For instance, when people are
stressed, distracted, or busy, they are more likely to fall victim to the
correspondence bias
[44]. Those with
greater capacity for reflective thought, as measured by need for cognition,
are less likely to show the bias
[45]. When people
feel accountable to others, they are less likely to show the bias
[46]. When people are
in good moods, they appear more likely show the bias
[47]. And some
collectivistic cultures may be less vulnerable to the correspondence bias
than individualistic ones
[48],
[49].
Organizations often adopt practices because they
are legitimate, popular, or easy to justify
[50],
[51]. That may help
explain why we observed such consistency in admissions policies in
neglecting to consider differences in grade distributions between
institutions. This sort of consistency in organizational “best” practices
can create incentives for individuals to play along, despite their
imperfections. Indeed, it is even conceivable that cultural or linguistic
norms can make it easier for individuals to follow decision norms that are
more easily understood by or explained to others. On the other hand, it is
reasonable to assume that finding a better system to evaluate applicants
would improve admissions decisions, allowing the schools that do it to
identify strong candidates that other schools neglect. The Oakland Athletics
baseball team did just this when it pioneered a new statistical approach to
identifying promising baseball players to recruit
[52]. Their success
has since been emulated by other teams, changing the way baseball's talent
scouts pick players. However, the problem for admissions departments may be
more complicated because explicitly tarring some institutions as
lenient-grading is likely to elicit energetic protests if they ever find out
about it
[53].
It is common in organizations for the abilities of
an individual, a department, or a division to be shrouded in complicating or
confounding influences that make them difficult to detect or measure
[54]. Indeed, as much
as ratings systems like grades and performance metrics like on-time
percentages can help clarify standards for evaluation, they can also be used
to obscure performance
[55]. Variation in
grading standards between institutions obscures the value of using grades to
measure student performance. It is probably in the interest of
lenient-grading institutions to hide the degree of their leniency.
Consistent with this motive, recent years have seen changes in the
disclosure that institutions are willing to make
[56]. Fewer academic
institutions are willing to disclose average grading data or class rankings
for their students or alumni. When we contacted institutions to inquire
regarding average grades elite, expensive, private institutions – those with
the highest average grades – were most likely to decline to disclose the
information.
Organizational Image, Legitimacy, and Stakeholder
Appraisals
The strategic use of scoring and assessment metrics
has implications at the organization level because of the way that
institutions compete. Scott and Lane
[57] advanced a
theory of organizational image in which stakeholders (both members as well
as outside audiences) play a key role in shaping the organization's image by
making legitimacy appraisals that can counterbalance the organization's
attempts at image management. This model is built on the dual premises that
organizations and their members derive personal and economic benefits from
promoting a positive image
[58],
[59], but that
salient audiences have a role in validating that image
[60],
[61]. These forces
form an equilibrium that balances the organization's incentives for an
unbounded positive spin with the utility gained by stakeholders from an
image grounded in reality. Scott and Lane
[57] term the
specific mechanism by which this equilibrium is reached reflected
stakeholder appraisals. In the present paper we have investigated a
setting in which stakeholders may have difficulty judging the
appropriateness of image-relevant information which could then threaten the
stability of the reflected stakeholder appraisal equilibrium.
In the context of higher education, graduating
students are among the primary interfaces through which employers, graduate
schools, and communities interact with undergraduate institutions. Their
reputation in the form of grades contributes to the reputation
[62] of the
organization. As such, undergraduate institutions have an incentive to
promote an image of intelligence and achievement to these outside audiences
by maintaining a relatively high grade distribution. Given the tremendous
value of being able to place alumni in better graduate schools and in better
jobs, universities cannot be expected to go too far in seeking to curtail
grade inflation. For example, universities are unlikely to implement
meaningful institutional changes such as replacing grades with percentile
rankings. Instead, we should expect academic institutions to pay lip service
to the importance of high academic standards while at the same time avoiding
publicizing average grade distributions and avoiding reporting class rank
data on their students.
Do we see unchecked escalation of grade
distributions by a market full of organizations unconstrained by the
critical feedback from shareholders? Of course, there are multiple
mechanisms supporting a moderate equilibrium even without functioning
shareholder criticism of the type we have described, but some data suggest
grade inflation is a prolonged and significant trend in U.S. Education
[6]. More troubling
are anecdotal reports of institutions manipulating their grade distribution
with the publicly expressed intent of influencing the selection decisions of
hiring firms
[63]. Clearly, these
institutions are anticipating that employers will not sufficiently discount
the grades of their alumni to eliminate the advantage their inflated grades
will confer.
Limitations and Directions for Future Research
Our studies are subject to several important
limitations. First, the sample used in our first study was relatively small
due to the size of the admissions department that participated, even though
the results were highly significant. In addition, the first and second
studies employed hypothetical decisions, which may have limited validity as
a model of fully consequential and incentivized decision making. Future
research could benefit from a more qualitative research approach to
investigate how admissions and promotion decisions are made by various
organizations. As for Study 3, there are many variables (such as variations
in average GPA by discipline within a school) for which we did lacked
information and thus could not control in our analyses. These variables may
have important influences on admission decisions that are not captured in
the present research. Although these are important limitations, it is also
worth noting that the limitations differ across studies and yet the findings
are robust.
The conclusions implied by our results as well as
the limitations of our research bring forth some fruitful and interesting
possible avenues for future research. One interesting question is whether
other academic selection contexts would show the same patterns as business
school admissions decisions. Law schools, for instance, use the Law School
Admissions Council, an organization that (among other things) processes
applications for law schools and provides a service that gives schools a
sense of where a given applicant's GPA falls relative to other applicants
that the LSAC has seen from that same institution. The Graduate Management
Admissions Council does not process business school applications and so does
not provide an equivalent service for business schools. Does the LSAC's
assistance help law schools make better admissions decisions?
Similarly, future research could explore the
implications of the correspondence bias for promotions of business
professionals. Just as educational institutions vary with respect to the
ease of achieving high grades, so do companies, industries, and time periods
differ with respect to the ease of achieving profitability. There are some
industries (such as airlines) that are perennially plagued by losses and
whose firms have trouble maintaining profitability. There are other
industries (such as pharmaceuticals) that have seen more stable
profitability over time. And clearly there are changes over time in industry
conditions that drive profitability; for example, global oil prices drive
profitability among oil companies.
We believe an important avenue for further
investigation lies in continuing the study of the correspondence bias in
empirical settings with organizationally-relevant outcomes. A more thorough
understanding of the implications of this common bias for organizations
could be achieved by further investigating business decisions such as
promotions. There are also a multitude of other business decisions in which
a latent variable of interest is seen in the context of varying situational
pressures. Investment returns, sports achievements, and political success
are all domains in which judgments are vulnerable to the tendency to
insufficiently discount the influence of the situation. We expect that the
correspondence bias affects outcomes in these domains.
Our theory holds that a firm's good fortune (in the
form of greater profits) will be mistaken as evidence for the abilities of
its managers. If this is so, then we should more often see employees of
lucky firms being promoted than of unlucky firms
[64]. We would
expect, for instance, that pharmaceutical executives are more likely to be
hired away to head other firms than are airline executives. However, this
finding might be vulnerable to the critique that pharmaceutical executives
actually are more capable than are airline executives–after all, their firms
are more consistently profitable. Therefore, a better way to test this
prediction would be using an industry (such as oil) in which fortunes
fluctuate over time due to circumstances outside the control of any firm's
managers. Our prediction, then, would be that oil executives are more likely
to be hired away to head other firms when the oil industry is lucky (i.e.,
oil prices are high) than when the industry is unlucky (i.e., oil prices are
low).
Theoretical Contributions
Our results contribute to the literature on the
psychological process at work in comparative judgment, a literature that
stretches across psychology
[65], economics
[66], and
organizational behavior
[67]. In this paper,
we extend previous research by examining judgmental contexts in which expert
decision-makers are comparing outcomes that vary with respect to both
nominal performances and their ease. We should also point out that these
results are, in a number of ways, more dramatic than the results of previous
research showing biases in comparative judgment. Previous results have been
strongest when participants themselves are the focus of judgment
[65],
[68]. Biases in
comparative judgment shrink when people are comparing others, and shrink
still further when they have excellent information about performance by
those they are comparing
[69]. Biases
disappear when comparisons are made on a forced ranking scale
[70]. In this paper,
we have shown comparative judgments to be powerfully biased even when people
are evaluating others about whom they have complete information (as modeled
in Study 1), and even when the assessments (e.g., admission decisions) are
made on a forced distribution that prevent them from rating everyone as
better than everyone else.
Continued in article
Bob Jensen's threads on assessment ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Assess.htm
"If I Challenge You to Become a Better Teacher in 2013-2014, What Is Your
First Response?" by Joe Hoyle, Teaching Blog, July 30, 2013 ---
http://joehoyle-teaching.blogspot.com/2013/07/if-i-challenge-you-to-become-better.html
Jensen Comment
One word of caution --- "Better teacher" does not necessarily mean being a "more
popular" teacher, although steps take to be a better teacher may make you more
popular. For example, devoting more time to office hours can make you both a
better teacher and a more popular teacher. Making Camtasia videos of the most
difficult learning tasks in your syllabus (e.g., deriving bond yields or valuing
interest rate swaps) might make you a better teacher, but don't expect students
to flock to your courses just because you are teaching the the toughest things
in your course better.
Warning: I did not make the link live because the Newser link for me
set off all sorts of pop up windows.
If McDonald's Doubled Wages, Big Macs Rise ... 68 Cents
Newser, 07/30/2013 |
By John Johnson
Fast-food workers want to make a "living wage" of
$15 an hour. Chains say they'd have to jack up prices if that ever happened.
But just how high? Turns out, not as high as you might think, at least
according to a University of Kansas researcher. He found that if McDonald's
immediately doubled the wages of all its workers (including the $9 million
CEO), it would have to raise the price of a Big Mac 68 cents, from $3.99 to
$4.67, reports the Huffington Post. Items on the Dollar Menu technically
wouldn't qualify anymore, but that hike...
Jensen Comment
Most accountants know better than to make these naive conclusions and overly
simplified implications in this article. To do a proper analysis an analyst has
to do what is called a full CPV analysis and product mix analysis that may also
entail doing a complex simulation in which many factors interact such as product
demand as a function of alternative prices for other food items on the menu and
nonlinear relationships between product mix/sales and customer demand
elasticity.
Yes McDonalds might make the same profit before and after raising prices on
all its menu choices to double wages, but it is not likely without knowing just
how elastic customer demand is with pricing and sales mix. It may well be that
prices would have to triple in order to make the same profit on greatly reduced
customer demand. Perhaps prices could be decreased when wages are increased if
robots take over the cooking and packaging. In cost accounting this is called
changing the "operating leverage." Much depends on demand elasticity and
changes in operating leverage.
At a minimum, McDonalds should test market a sampling of stores by changing
prices and sales mixes. This is difficult, however, since McDonalds would not be
alone in raising prices if the legal minimum wage was doubled. In that case all
the other restaurants from fast food to five-star restaurants would have to
raise prices. And grocery stores would have to raise prices and make cooking at
home much more expensive.
Nobody really knows what the direct and higher order societal effects are
from raising prices. For example, how many full-time and part-time jobs would be
lost? At some point in the cost function, it does become more profitable to add
more operating leverage with robots. Just ask the automobile manufacturing
companies that have adopted robots big time. We don't usually think of Hal as
cooking our Big Macs, but Hal can probably cook Big Macs better than most of the
cooks in the McDonalds chain.
Physicists stole all the easy problems. They usually do not have to
predict human interactive behavior.
Utah Fires Assistant Professor and Retires Another After Finding Science Lab
Was Reckless With Data and Manipulated Images
"U. of Utah Review Finds ‘Reckless’ Research Misconduct in Lab," by Nick
DeSantis, Chronicle of Higher Education, August 2, 2013 ---
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/jp/u-of-utah-review-finds-reckless-research-misconduct-in-lab?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Bob Jensen's threads on professors who cheat ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Plagiarism.htm#ProfessorsWhoPlagiarize
Links from the Tax Prof Blog on "The Last Days of Big Law"
Leiter's Reflections on The Economic Value of a Law Degree
Brian Leiter (Chicago),
Reflections on "The Economic Value of a Law Degree" and the Response to It.
Prior TaxProf Blog coverage:
-
What Is the Economic Value of a Law Degree -- $1 Million? (July
17, 2013)
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More on The $1 Million Value
of a Law Degree (July
18, 2013)
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NY Times, WaPo, Others Debate The
$1 Million Value of a Law Degree (July
18, 2013)
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What Is the Economic Value of a Law Degree -- $1 Million or $100,000? (July
19, 2013)
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More on The $1 Million Value
of a Law Degree (July
20, 2013)
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Merritt on The $1 Million
Value of a Law Degree (July
21, 2013)
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Diamond on The $1 Million Value of a Law Degree (July
22, 2013)
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Tamanaha: How 'The Million Dollar Law Degree' Study Systematically
Overstates Value (July
23, 2013)
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Tamanaha: How the 'Million
Dollar Law Degree' Study Understates Risk (Part I) (July
24, 2013)
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Tamanaha: Why the “Million
Dollar Law Degree” Study Fails (Final Post) (July
25, 2013)
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Rasmusen: Critics of The
Economic Value of a Law Degree Are Making the Paper Better (July
25, 2013)
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Pasquale and Simkovic Respond to Tamanaha (July
25, 2013)
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The American Lawyer: Paper
on Law Degree's Economic Value a Non-Sequitur (July
26, 2013)
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Simkovic Responds to Tamanaha (Part 3) (July
26, 2013)
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Tamanaha: Short Term Versus
Long Term Perspective (July
27, 2013)
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Harper, Diamond: The $1 Million Value of a Law Degree: Distraction,
Astronomy, or Astrology? (July
28, 2013)
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Simkovic Responds to American Lawyer Op-Eds (July
29, 2013)
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Diamond Responds to Tamanaha (July
29, 2013)
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Rasmusen: The Economic Value
of a Law Degree and the 'Typical' Law Student (July
29, 2013)
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Simkovic Responds to Tamanaha (Part 4) (July
30, 2013)
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Campos on The Economic Value of a Law Degree: The Problem With Back
in the Day (July 30, 2013)
From the CFO Journal's Morning Ledger on August 5, 2013
Companies embroiled in patent battles may have to
rethink their strategies
Over the weekend, President Obama vetoed a ruling
from the U.S. International Trade Commission banning the sale of some
Apple products,
the WSJ reports. It
was the first such veto in a quarter century.
The veto could discourage companies from taking patent
disputes to the
ITC, the Journal says. It also could reduce
some patent holders’ leverage in licensing talks, cutting the commercial
value of their patents. And
the FT says the veto
risks undermining the administration’s push for stricter
intellectual-property regimes around the world. We’ll have to keep an eye on
some other pending cases to judge the impact. InterDigital has brought
patent-infringement claims and sought product bans against several
companies, including
Samsung, Nokia,
Huawei Technologies
and ZTE. Late
last year, Samsung
and the Ericsson
filed complaints against each other at the ITC.
In a letter explaining the veto, U.S. Trade
Representative Michael Froman said the decision was based on the potential
harm the sales ban would cause to consumers and the U.S. economy. And he
suggested Samsung could still enforce its patents in the courts. That may be
little consolation to Samsung—its shares were hammered today, with more than
$1 billion in market value wiped out in early trading,
the WSJ reports.
From the CFO Journal's Morning Ledger on July 22, 2013
Tax overhaul battle divides companies
Corporate battle lines are being drawn over the congressional
effort to overhaul the tax code,
the WSJ’s Damian Paletta and Kate Linbaugh write.
The top Democrat and Republican on the Senate Finance
Committee have given other lawmakers until
Friday to defend current tax breaks and
practices, while House Ways and Means Chairman David Camp (R., Mich.) could
begin advancing a plan after Congress’s August recess. Companies like
Amgen and
Microsoft that
benefit from royalty income from intellectual property are working to
preserve their ability to park this income in low-tax locales such as
Bermuda and Ireland. Both companies are fighting a draft proposal from Mr.
Camp that aims to curtail such offshore practices by imposing a 15% tax on
income from patents, trademarks or other U.S.-owned “intangibles,”
regardless of where they are held. Another group, led by
General Electric
and backed by companies including
Intel may be
willing to accept Mr. Camp’s proposal in exchange for lower tax rates, among
other things.
2U Distance Education Course Provider ---
http://www.study2u.com/
2U (The Anti-MOOC Provider) ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_technology
"3 Universities (Baylor,
Southern Methodist, and Temple Universities)
Will Grant Credit for 2U’s Online Courses," by Steve Kolowich, Chronicle
of Higher Education, July 30, 2013 ---
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/3-universities-will-grant-credit-for-2us-online-courses/45143?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
Bob Jensen's Threads on Pricey Online
Courses and Degrees ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/CrossBorder.htm
These do not help global low income students other than by allowing
students to learn at home and accumulate transcript credits toward
degrees. Sometimes the credits are accepted only by the college or university
providing distance education courses. Some universities like the University of
Wisconsin at Milwaukee that offer both onsite and online sections of the same
course will charge higher fees for the online sections. Distance education for
come colleges and universities are cash cows.
Bob Jensen's Threads on Free
Online Courses, Videos, Tutorials, and Course Materials ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
These help low income students by providing totally free courses and
learning materials, often from the best professors in the world at prestigious
universities. However, if students want transcript credit there will be fees to
take competency-based examinations. And those credits are not always accepted by
other colleges and universities. The free alternatives are mainly for students
who just want to learn.
The Washington Post Co did not sell its struggling for-profit distance
education provider
"Kaplan 2.0 August 15, 2013," by Paul Fain, Inside Higher Ed,
August 15, 2013 ---
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/08/15/profit-kaplan-branches-out-learning-science-projects
Bob Jensen's threads on for-profit universities ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#ForProfitFraud
Competency-Based Learning ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competency-based_learning
The University of Northern Arizona Offers a Dual Transcript Option, One of
Which is Competency-Based
"Competency-Based Transcripts," by Paul Fain, Inside Higher Ed,
August 9, 2013 ---
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/08/09/northern-arizona-universitys-new-competency-based-degrees-and-transcripts
Jensen Comment
This program at Northern Arizona differs from the competency-based programs at the University of
Wisconsin, the University of Akron, Capella University, and Southern New Hampshire University in
that students at Northern Arizona must sign up for online courses at Northern Arizona before
becoming eligible for the competency-based transcript. It differs from Western
Governors University in that there are two transcripts rather than just a
competency-based transcript for online courses.
Capella may have a more difficult time getting employers and graduate schools
to accept Capella's competency-based transcript credit in general relative
to the University of Wisconsin, the University of Akron, and Southern New
Hampshire University. Time will tell. Much depends upon other criteria such as
SAT scores, GRE scores, GMAT scores, LSAT scores, MCAT scores, and professional
licensing examination scores.
Bob Jensen's threads on competency-based assessment ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Assess.htm#ConceptKnowledge
Most of the cities on this list surprised me --- I suspect larger cities
eventually pose more costly threats
Seven Cities at Risk of Rising Seas ---
Click Here
http://247wallst.com/special-report/2013/08/12/seven-cities-at-risk-of-rising-sea-levels/?utm_source=247WallStDailyNewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AUG132013A&utm_campaign=DailyNewsletter
Watch Barnaby Jack, who recently died, show how to trick an ATM machine
into spewing out all of its cash ---
Click Here
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/517621/watch-the-atm-hacker-at-work/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20130730
Last week one of the network TV news shows showed surveillance video of a man
using a mysterious tool that allegedly can open any locked car doo. Purportedly,
experts who have never seen this tool haven't the slightest idea how it works.
Penn States First MAcc Class Placement = 100%
The first graduating class of the Penn State Smeal College of Business One-Year
Master of Accounting (MAcc) Program has announced both a 100 percent internship
placement rate and a 100 percent job placement rate at graduation. The students
received their diplomas at Penn State’s summer 2013 commencement ceremony on
Saturday, Aug. 10 ---
http://news.psu.edu/story/283924/2013/08/12/academics/one-year-master-accounting-program-announces-100-percent-job
"Why Spending $150K On An MBA Is Probably A Dumb Idea," by Erika
Andersen, Forbes, July 27, 2013 ---
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikaandersen/2013/07/27/why-spending-150k-on-an-mba-is-probably-a-dumb-idea/
Jensen Comment
The title of this article is very misleading. MBA degrees differ like night and
day between universities. For example, having an MBA from the Tuck School at
Dartmouth means being in a tight and very supportive alumni cohort that can
affect opportunities not only upon graduation but opportunities in life as well.
Erika Andersen assumes that getting an MBA degree is like getting a masters
in history where the graduate studies are probably 80% learning and 20% applying
for doctoral programs. An MBA degree is 60% learning and 40% networking.
Her article is reasonably good about learning, especially lifelong learning.
But it is naive about what students really get out of MBA programs. The degree
of learning varies a great deal with academic background before coming into the
program. The courses can be amazing eye openers for engineers, scientists, and
humanities undergraduates who know very little about accounting, finance,
marketing, and management. The courses are less eye opening to former economics
or business majors. There really is learning in an MBA program and in some
programs like the Harvard Business School program there's a ton of writing every
week with grading by course professors and not teaching assistants. A good MBA
program is not a trade school. People that claim otherwise probably do not have
MBA degrees from top schools.
Networking like MBA students get in the Ivy League and at Stanford and
Northwestern can be extremely inspirational and motivational when combined with
the truly exceptional faculty encountered along the way.
MBA degrees can be very important in rounding out essential knowledge for
starting and successfully starting your own business. Great engineers and
computer scientists might otherwise start businesses that crash and burn without
knowing the basics that are covered in good MBA programs. Top MBA programs only
admit smart students. Those students are among the best in the world in learning
what is required of them in MBA programs.
MBA degrees also open doors to careers. Ask the many professionals on Wall
Street, especially the managers and executives, who hold MBA degrees from top
universities.
Hence spending $150K on an MBA is a bargain for many MBA graduates,
especially graduates from leading MBA programs. It may be more of a
bargain than spending $250K on a law degree from that same institution. It may
even worth more than a medical degree, especially if getting a medical degree
means leaving the campus with $750K in student loans and bleak prospects without
borrowing more and spending another four more years in residency Hell getting a
specialty.
MBA degrees from some state universities may be cheaper and have worthwhile
learning content. But without the great networking these are not necessarily as
MBA degrees from top universities. Also MBA graduates from some state
universities may have much more difficulty landing jobs that they had hoped for
when beginning the MBA program.
One factor in getting a good starting job is the undergraduate specialty. MBA
graduates with engineering and computer science degrees generally have an easier
time than MBA graduates with art history, music, and some other humanities
degrees.
Undergraduate majors in accounting probably will find it easier to get a job
with a masters in accounting degree rather than an MBA. A MBA degree is not an
especially good idea for accounting majors unless the degree is from one of the
very top MBA programs.
The first graduating class of the Penn State Smeal College of Business
One-Year Master of Accounting (MAcc) Program has announced both a 100 percent
internship placement rate and a 100 percent job placement rate at graduation.
The students received their diplomas at Penn State’s summer 2013 commencement
ceremony on Saturday, Aug. 10.
Rank |
School |
Business School Name |
Based In |
1 |
Indiana University - Bloomington |
Kelly School of Business |
Bloomington, IN |
2 |
Thunderbird School of Global Management |
Thunderbird School of Global
Management |
Glendale, AZ |
3 |
University of Illinois - Springfield |
College of Business and
Management |
Springfield, IL |
4 |
University of Tennessee - Martin |
College of Business & Global
Affairs |
Martin, TN |
5 |
Rutgers, the State University of New
Jersey - New Brunswick and Newark |
Rutgers Business School |
Newark, NJ |
6 |
North Carolina State University |
Poole College of Management,
Jenkins Graduate School |
Raleigh, NC |
7 |
George Washington University |
George Washington University
School of Business |
Washington, DC |
8 |
University of Florida |
Hough Graduate School of
Business |
Gainesville, FL |
9 |
Pennsylvania State University |
Smeal College of Business |
University Park, PA |
10 |
Arizona State University |
W.P. Carey School of
Business |
Tempe, AZ |
Jensen Comment
For some reason the above ranking leaves out the University of North Carolina
---
http://onlinemba.unc.edu/about/mba-at-unc/
Richard Sansing later pointed out that UNC comes in at Rank 11.
"Journalism Has Entered A Golden Age," by Henry Blodget. Business
Insider, August 13, 2013 ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/a-golden-age-for-journalism-2013-8
Jensen Comment
This is a perfect example of how to write a great one-sided PR article. But if
journalism is in a "Golden Age" why are journalism schools in universities
struggling to survive. The fact of the matter, sadly, is that there are very few
"paying" jobs for graduates that, in turn, has let to a dearth of journalism
majors. Some universities like the University of Colorado dropped their
journalism schools.
We need more rather than less reporters on the streets of the world.
Bob Jensen's threads on the sad state (which is very sad to me) are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#JSchools
Rise in Research Cheating
"A Sharp Rise in Retractions Prompts Calls for Reform," by Carl Zimmer,
The New York Times, April 16, 2012 ---
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/science/rise-in-scientific-journal-retractions-prompts-calls-for-reform.html?_r=2&
In the fall of 2010, Dr. Ferric C. Fang made an
unsettling discovery. Dr. Fang, who is editor in chief of the journal
Infection and Immunity, found that one of his authors had doctored several
papers.
It was a new experience for him. “Prior to that
time,” he said in an interview, “Infection and Immunity had only retracted
nine articles over a 40-year period.”
The journal wound up retracting six of the papers
from the author, Naoki Mori of the University of the Ryukyus in Japan. And
it soon became clear that Infection and Immunity was hardly the only victim
of Dr. Mori’s misconduct. Since then, other scientific journals have
retracted two dozen of his papers, according to the watchdog blog Retraction
Watch.
“Nobody had noticed the whole thing was rotten,”
said Dr. Fang, who is a professor at the University of Washington School of
Medicine.
Dr. Fang became curious how far the rot extended.
To find out, he teamed up with a fellow editor at the journal, Dr. Arturo
Casadevall of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. And
before long they reached a troubling conclusion: not only that retractions
were rising at an alarming rate, but that retractions were just a
manifestation of a much more profound problem — “a symptom of a
dysfunctional scientific climate,” as Dr. Fang put it.
Dr. Casadevall, now editor in chief of the journal
mBio, said he feared that science had turned into a winner-take-all game
with perverse incentives that lead scientists to cut corners and, in some
cases, commit acts of misconduct.
“This is a tremendous threat,” he said.
Last month, in a pair of editorials in Infection
and Immunity, the two editors issued a plea for fundamental reforms. They
also presented their concerns at the March 27 meeting of the National
Academies of Sciences committee on science, technology and the law.
Members of the committee agreed with their
assessment. “I think this is really coming to a head,” said Dr. Roberta B.
Ness, dean of the University of Texas School of Public Health. And Dr. David
Korn of Harvard Medical School agreed that “there are problems all through
the system.”
No one claims that science was ever free of
misconduct or bad research. Indeed, the scientific method itself is intended
to overcome mistakes and misdeeds. When scientists make a new discovery,
others review the research skeptically before it is published. And once it
is, the scientific community can try to replicate the results to see if they
hold up.
But critics like Dr. Fang and Dr. Casadevall argue
that science has changed in some worrying ways in recent decades —
especially biomedical research, which consumes a larger and larger share of
government science spending.
In October 2011, for example, the journal Nature
reported that published retractions had increased tenfold over the past
decade, while the number of published papers had increased by just 44
percent. In 2010 The Journal of Medical Ethics published a study finding the
new raft of recent retractions was a mix of misconduct and honest scientific
mistakes.
Several factors are at play here, scientists say.
One may be that because journals are now online, bad papers are simply
reaching a wider audience, making it more likely that errors will be
spotted. “You can sit at your laptop and pull a lot of different papers
together,” Dr. Fang said.
But other forces are more pernicious. To survive
professionally, scientists feel the need to publish as many papers as
possible, and to get them into high-profile journals. And sometimes they cut
corners or even commit misconduct to get there.
To measure this claim, Dr. Fang and Dr. Casadevall
looked at the rate of retractions in 17 journals from 2001 to 2010 and
compared it with the journals’ “impact factor,” a score based on how often
their papers are cited by scientists. The higher a journal’s impact factor,
the two editors found, the higher its retraction rate.
The highest “retraction index” in the study went to
one of the world’s leading medical journals, The New England Journal of
Medicine. In a statement for this article, it questioned the study’s
methodology, noting that it considered only papers with abstracts, which are
included in a small fraction of studies published in each issue. “Because
our denominator was low, the index was high,” the statement said.
Continued in article
Bob Jensen's threads on cheating by faculty are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Plagiarism.htm#ProfessorsWhoPlagiarize
August 14, 2013 reply from Dennis Huber
Hmmmm. I wonder. Does accounting research culture
also need to be reformed?
August 14, 2013 reply from Bob Jensen
Hi Dennis,
Academics have debated the need for reform in academic accounting
research for decades. There are three primary areas of recommended reform,
but those areas overlap a great deal.
One area of suggested reform is to make it less easy to cheat and commit
undetected errors in academic accounting research by forcing/encouraging
replication, which is part and parcel to quality control in real science ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm
A second area of improvement would turn accountics science from a pseudo
science into a real science. Real science does not stop inferring causality
from correlation when the causality data needed is not contained in the
databases studied empirically with econometric models.
Real scientists granulate deeper and deeper for causal factors to test
whether correlations are spurious. Accountics scientists seldom granulate
beyond their purchased databases ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsGranulationCurrentDraft.pdf
A third area of improvement would arise if accountics scientists were
forced to communicate their research findings better with accounting
teachers and practitioners. Accountics scientists just do not care about
such communications and should be forced to communicate in other venues such
as having publication in a Tech Corner of the AAA Commons ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm#Commons
A fourth area of improvement would be expand research methods of
accountics science to take on more interesting topics that are not so
amenable to traditional quantitative and statistical modeling. See Cargo
Cult mentality criticisms of accountics scients at
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm#Essays
It might be argued that accountics scientists don't replicate their findings
because nobody gives a damn about their findings ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm#CargoCult
That's taking the criticisms too far. I find lots of accountics science
findings interesting. It's just that accountics scientists ignore topics
that I find more interesting --- particularly topics of interest to
accounting practitioners.
A fifth and related problem is that academic accounting inventors are
rare in comparison with academic inventors in science and engineering ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm#Inventors
I summarize how academic accounting researchers should change at
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm
Competency-Based Learning ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competency-based_learning
"Capella Gets Federal Approval for Competency-Based Degrees,"
Inside Higher Ed, August 13, 2013 ---
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/08/13/capella-gets-federal-approval-competency-based-degrees
The University of Northern Arizona Offers a Dual Transcript Option, One of
Which is Competency-Based
"Competency-Based Transcripts," by Paul Fain, Inside Higher Ed,
August 9, 2013 ---
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/08/09/northern-arizona-universitys-new-competency-based-degrees-and-transcripts
Jensen Comment
This program at Northern Arizona differs from the competency-based programs at the University of
Wisconsin, the University of Akron, Capella University, and Southern New Hampshire University in
that students at Northern Arizona must sign up for online courses at Northern Arizona before
becoming eligible for the competency-based transcript. It differs from Western
Governors University in that there are two transcripts rather than just a
competency-based transcript for online courses.
Capella may have a more difficult time getting employers and graduate schools
to accept Capella's competency-based transcript credit in general relative
to the University of Wisconsin, the University of Akron, and Southern New
Hampshire University. Time will tell. Much depends upon other criteria such as
SAT scores, GRE scores, GMAT scores, LSAT scores, MCAT scores, and professional
licensing examination scores.
Bob Jensen's threads on competency-based assessment ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Assess.htm#ConceptKnowledge
Should your rent or buy a home?
Warning: The author (Zillow) of the article below likes to sell books
and advice. However, this article (and its links) makes some good points.
Jensen Comment
I think the five-year rent versus buy threshold is too short for new assistant
professors facing a seven-year tenure probationary period. My advice is not to
buy until being tenured with plans to stay in place for at least another five
year period after being granted tenure.
Always look at the resale market.
For example, condos and townhouses are usually harder to sell than dwellings on
large lots. High prices are less discouraging in neighborhoods where houses are
in great demand. For example, what seems like an absurd price for a home within
walking distance to a college campus, hospital, or K-12 school may be better
deal than cheaper housing that entails a long commute for yourself, your spouse,
or your kids.
In cities like San Antonio it's no longer a good idea to buy a home unless it
is in a gated community. Houses outside gated communities do not sell very well
in San Antonio and other cities unless there are offsetting attractions such as
being within walking distance of a college campus where you work. Note that I
recommend a gated community not only because it is somewhat safer, but I
recommend it simply because I think houses are easier to sell if they are in
gated communities. Up here in the White Mountains, people tend to think of a
gated community as one that fences in livestock. It's hopeless to try to fence
out moose, deer, and bears.
I don't know of any gated communities up here that try to fence out bad guys.
Gated communities in urban areas have an entirely different meaning.
If you are confused by tax considerations, get advice from tax and valuation
experts such as those experts who subscribe to the AECM listserv.
Keep in mind that if you pay more than the tax assessment value for a home,
the tax assessment will probably go up to what you pay for the home. For
example, my taxes nearly doubled relative to what the seller paid in taxes here
in the White Mountains. In California you taxes may soar relative to what the
seller was paying under Proposition 13 protection.
If you get a bargain purchase for less than the tax assessment your taxes
will not necessarily go down. Our minister bought a foreclosure house from a
bank at less than half the tax assessment valuation. When his tax assessment did
not go down afterwards, he took his case all the way to Superior Court --- where
he lost. Bargain purchases will not necessarily bring you bargain property
taxes.
Times change.
I owned what I considered five beautiful homes plus an ocean-shore cottage in my
lifetime. Times were such that for my first three homes and the 12-acre ocean
property I sold the them at sizeable gains the first day I put them on the
market. My home in San Antonio was on the market for nearly a year when I got
the one and only offer received (for a fair price that was still a slight
capital loss after ownership for 24 years). Now I live our retirement acreage up
here in the White Mountains. I would, however, lose a lot of money if I were
forced to sell this place. If I own this acreage for another 20 years I am not
expecting to make a lot of money on it in terms of price-level adjusted dollars.
All of northern New England in New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine is long-term
depressed in terms of real estate values.
Forty years ago I advised people to buy a home even if they planned to move
in 2-3 years. These days I tend to advise people to rent unless they plan to
stay put for at least ten years. Home ownership is an inflation hedge and forces
owners to save money during the equity build up of house payments. And there are
tax advantages in the USA and home owners tend to improve their homes. But
the risk of losing money in our cooled-off real estate markets these days are
real bummers. Like I said, I lost money on my big San Antonio home after
owning it 24 years. Times have changed.
"There's A Simple, Unbiased Way To Figure Out Whether To Rent Or Buy,"
by Leonard Baron, Zillow, Business Insider, July 31, 2013 ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/decide-whether-to-rent-or-buy-2013-7
If you are a renter and pondering whether it’s time
buy a home, one thing that might be on your mind is a rent vs. own analysis.
As you can imagine, this analysis will help you determine the financial
benefits of owning a home vs. staying a renter.
Many online rent vs. own analysis tools are available,
but a little caution is needed, as some of these tools are very biased and
skewed. Some always find that it typically makes sense to buy, while others
show that you should rarely buy. Most of them look at the difference between
the monthly rental and mortgage payments and take into account tax benefits,
equity earned, sales prices and other variables associated with home
ownership.
The biggest problem with most of these tools is
that they are way too complex for the average person to understand. And
because this is the biggest financial decision you will ever make, it isn’t
a smart idea to just trust, while not understanding, what’s behind the
analysis.
But there is a simple way to do a rent vs. own
analysis that will return the correct decision the vast majority of the time
for the average home buyer. And it’s completely unbiased.
Long-term ownership
Ask yourself: Am I very confident that I will own
the home at least five years?
If the answer is yes, it probably makes sense to
buy because it will improve your net wealth.
If the answer is no, you should stay a renter
because owning will most likely diminish your net wealth.
That’s it, the math is just that simple!
Why it works
When you sell a property, you pay about 10 to 15
percent of the sales price in costs. These costs are 5 to 6 percent in sales
commission, 2 to 3 percent in escrow, title, closing and other costs, plus
most likely a few percentage points in credits to the buyer, overlapping
occupancy costs if you’ve already moved, plus extra costs of moving. It
really does add up quickly, and your overall costs are always higher than
you anticipate.
For example, if you bought a house for $200,000 and
its value increased 3 percent per year, it would be worth about $232,000 at
the end of year five. If you sold it for $232,000 and subtracted out 15
percent in sales costs ($34,800) you would net a little less than $200,000
on the sale.
Notice that $200,000 is the exact amount you paid
for the property five years earlier. Now some people will think: Well if it
cost less monthly to own than to rent, then it still made sense because you
saved money along the way. But figuring the true monthly cost to own is more
complicated than a simple comparison of your monthly housing expenses vs.
what it would cost to rent. And a true analysis usually finds that it costs
more to own than to rent, even with the purported “tax benefits of home
ownership.”
The end result is that owning a home is much more
expensive than people anticipate, plus the sale of a home is also much more
expensive that most people realize.
And that’s why five years is about the breakeven
period, in the vast majority of cases. If you don’t plan to keep a home for
a long, long time, you’re better off financially by renting someone else’s
property until you do find a place you plan to own for the long haul.
Related:
States Where It Is Hardest To Find Full-Time Work ---
Click Here
http://247wallst.com/special-report/2013/08/06/states-where-it-is-hardest-to-find-full-time-work/?utm_source=247WallStDailyNewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AUG072013A&utm_campaign=DailyNewsletter
Bloomberg reports JP Morgan has agreed to pay a $410 penalty over
allegations it manipulated U.S. electricity markets ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/jpmorgan-ferc-settlement-2013-7
Under the agreement, JPMVEC will pay a civil
penalty of $285 million to the U.S. Treasury and disgorge $125 million in
unjust profits. The first $124 million of the disgorged profits will go to
ratepayers in the California Independent System Operator (California ISO),
which operates the California electricity market. The other $1 million will
go to ratepayers in the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO).
Jensen Comment
I thought some traders at Enron went to prison for doing the same thing in
California. Where are the handcuffs?
That
some bankers have ended up in prison is not a matter of scandal, but what is
outrageous is the fact that all the others are free.
Honoré de Balzac
"Chase, Once Considered "The Good Bank," Is About to Pay Another Massive
Settlement," by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, July 18, 2013 ---
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/chase-once-considered-the-good-bank-is-about-to-pay-another-massive-settlement-20130718
Bob Jensen's threads on dirty rotten bankers ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudRotten.htm#InvestmentBanking
From the Scout Report on July 26, 2013
Feeder Ninja ---
http://feederninja.com/
Are you looking to create beautiful and elegant RSS
and social feeds? Feeder Ninja can make this happen in just a few steps. On
the Features section, visitors can learn about how to create attractive feed
widgets for their site, along with details about how to insert the necessary
code. The Examples area contains a host of recently crafted feeds and
there's a helpful FAQ area. This version is compatible with all operating
systems, including Linux.
Statwing ---
https://www.statwing.com/
For policy folks and others, Statwing will be a
most welcome find. Visitors can use the program to analyze data from their
spreadsheets in order get compelling statistical analytical reports within
seconds. There are some great examples here using the program, including
those that use passenger data from the Titanic and the voting records of
members of Congress. Additionally, there's a helpful demo included. This
version is compatible with all operating systems.
With a flurry of new projects, interest continues to grow in
transit-oriented development
All aboard: Rail Centric Construction Gets Back on Track
http://urbanland.uli.org/Articles/2013/Jul/SpivakAllAboard?utm_source=uli&utm_medium=eblast&utm_campaign=072213
Citi grant supports transit-oriented development
http://www.stamfordplus.com/stm/information/nws1/publish/realestate/Citi-grant-supports-transit-oriented-development-in-Fairfield-County20557.shtml
What is TOD?
http://www.reconnectingamerica.org/what-we-do/what-is-tod/
Center for Transit-Oriented Development
http://www.cnt.org/tcd/projects/ctod/
Our Built and Natural Environments: A Technical Review of the Interactions
Between Land Use, Transportation, and Environmental Quality
http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/pdf/b-and-n/b-and-n-EPA-231K13001.pdf
Regional Transportation Authority: Transit-Oriented Development
http://rtachicago.com/initiatives/land-use-transit-oriented-development.html
From the Scout Report on August 2
Myndbook Maps ---
http://www.myndbook.com
Would you like to take notes seamlessly and bring
together your thoughts in a visually intriguing fashion? Myndbook Maps can
help as it gives users the ability to jot down notes and then bring them all
together at a later date. The user interface is extremely flexible and users
can also watch a short video about the many features and functionalities.
This version is compatible with all operating systems.
4Sync ---
http://www.4sync.com/
4Sync is a rather useful way to sync hundreds of
files quickly and easily. The service provides users with backup copies of
their files and visitors will find they can use multiple platforms to do so.
This free version offers 15GB of storage at no charge and is compatible with
all operating systems.
After a vandal strikes the Lincoln Memorial, the National Park
Foundation utilizes social media to rally support for this iconic work
Vandalism at national parks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/vandalism-at-national-parks/2013/07/26/b653b2ba-f62b-11e2-9434-60440856fadf_gallery.html
A brief history of D.C. landmark vandalism
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-guide/wp/2013/07/29/a-brief-history-of-d-c-landmark-vandalism/
A look at the world's most notorious art vandalism
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/culture-lifestyle/130726/the-worlds-most-notorious-art-vandalism
Street-art vandals decade Northcote stencil featuring men kissing
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/north/streetart-vandals-deface-northcote-stencil-featuring-men-kissing/story-fnglenug-1226686472249
Gromit sculptures attacked in Bristol amid wave of public art vandalism
http://blogs.artinfo.com/artintheair/2013/07/01/gromit-sculptures-attacked-in-bristol-amid-wave-of-public-art-vandalism/
Public Art: The District of Columbia
http://dcarts.dc.gov/service/public-art-collections
Free online textbooks, cases, and tutorials in accounting, finance,
economics, and statistics ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Education Tutorials
State of America's Libraries Report 2013 ---
http://www.ala.org/news/state-americas-libraries-report-2013
Ibiblio (library science tutorials and resources) ---
http://www.ibiblio.org/
IMLS: Video & Webcasts (library science) ---
http://www.imls.gov/resources/videos.aspx
Center for the Book (Library of Congress) ---
http://www.read.gov/cfb
Columbia Library Columns ---
http://library.columbia.edu/content/libraryweb/indiv/rbml/digitalcollections/columns.html
Subject Guides at Syracuse University Library ---
http://researchguides.library.syr.edu/index.php
Scitable (free library of science) ---
http://www.nature.com/scitable
The University of Michigan Digital Humanities Series---
http://www.digitalculture.org/books/book-series/digital-humanities-series/
The European Association for Digital Humanities ---
http://www.allc.org/
University of San Francisco: Gleeson Library Digital Collections
(Literature History) ---
http://digitalcollections.usfca.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/p264101coll8
Dartmouth Digital Collections: Books ---
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/digital/collections/books.html
Discovering American Women's
History Online ---
http://digital.mtsu.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/women
Bob Jensen's threads on electronic books are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ebooks.htm
Accounting History Libraries at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) ---
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/accountancy/libraries.html
The above libraries include international accounting history.
The above libraries include film and video historical collections.
From PBS: NOVA Labs
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/labs/
NPR: Education ---
http://www.npr.org/sections/education/
From the Harvard Business School: Working Knowledge ---
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/
Topics ---
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/topics/
Accounting and Control is listed under Finance ---
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/topics/accountingandcontrol.html
Federal Reserve Education ---
http://www.federalreserveeducation.org/
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago: Econ in the Classroom ---
http://www.chicagofed.org/webpages/education/econ_classroom/
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco: Center for Pacific Basin Studies
---
http://www.frbsf.org/economics/pbc/
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco: Teacher Resources Index ---
http://www.frbsf.org/education/teachers/index.html
Bob Jensen's threads on general education tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#EducationResearch
Bob Jensen's bookmarks for multiple disciplines ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm
Engineering, Science, and Medicine Tutorials
"A Black Hole Mystery Wrapped in a Firewall Paradox," by Dennis Overbye,
The New York Times, August 12, 2013 ---
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/science/space/a-black-hole-mystery-wrapped-in-a-firewall-paradox.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0#h[]
From PBS: NOVA Labs
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/labs/
NASA's Earth Observing System ---
http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/
TeacherLink: NASA Instructional Units and Lesson Plans ---
http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlnasa/units/index.html
Pedagogy in Action: the SERC portal for Educators (Carleton College's
resources for science, engineering, and math Teachers) ---
http://serc.carleton.edu/sp/library/studentresearch/index.html
NPR: Education ---
http://www.npr.org/sections/education/
Howard Hughes Medical Institute: Educational Materials ---
http://www.hhmi.org/educational-materials
Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine ---
http://collections.nlm.nih.gov/ext/pub/HIDDENTREASURE_NLM_BlastBooks.pdf
Circulating Now (history of medicine) ---
http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/
National Institute of General Medical Sciences: Inside Life
Science ---
http://publications.nigms.nih.gov/insidelifescience/
National Institutes of Health: Curriculum Supplement Series
---
http://science.education.nih.gov/customers.nsf/WebPages/CSHome
National Institutes of Health: Science Education: Research &
Training ---
http://nih.gov/science/education.htm
The Learning Brain: Neuroscience ---
http://www.bioedonline.org/lessons-and-more/resource-collections/the-learning-brain-neuroscience/
Interactive Course on Magnetic Resonance Imagining (medicine, radiology)
---
http://www.imaios.com/en/e-Courses/e-MRI/
Foundations of Nutrition Science ---
http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/76
Healthy Lifestyle ---
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/HealthyLivingIndex/HealthyLivingIndex
USDA: Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion ---
http://www.cnpp.usda.gov/
Team Nutrition: Educator Resources ---
http://teamnutrition.usda.gov/educators.html
Examination of Front-of-Package Nutrition Rating Systems and Symbols ---
http://iom.edu/Activities/Nutrition/NutritionSymbols.aspx
Environmental Protection Agency: Learn the Issues ---
http://www2.epa.gov/learn-issues
The Environmental Institute ---
http://www.umass.edu/tei/
The Habitable Planet: A Systems Approach to Environmental Science
http://www.learner.org/resources/series209.html
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: Lesson Resources for
Teachers ---
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/scied/teachers/
Global Warming Science ---
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/earth-atmospheric-and-planetary-sciences/12-340-global-warming-science-spring-2012/index.htm
Teaching Geology ---
http://www.colorado.edu/geolsci/Resources/
Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology ---
http://www.nbmg.unr.edu/
Bob Jensen's threads on free online science,
engineering, and medicine tutorials are at ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Science
Social Science and Economics Tutorials
From the Harvard Business School: Working Knowledge ---
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/
Topics ---
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/topics/
Accounting and Control is listed under Finance ---
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/topics/accountingandcontrol.html
Pedagogy in Action: the SERC portal for Educators (Carleton College's
resources for science, engineering, and math teachers) ---
http://serc.carleton.edu/sp/library/studentresearch/index.html
Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT ---
http://ksj.mit.edu/
Knight Foundation (Journalism, Newspapers, Media, Writing, Reporting) ---
http://www.knightfoundation.org/
Knight Digital Media Center: Presentations and Webcasts ---
http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/presentations/
From Wayne State University: Changing Face of the Auto Industry ---
http://dlxs.lib.wayne.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?c=cfai
The Allure of the Automobile (museum)
http://www.high.org/main.taf?p=3,1,1,17,1
NPR: Education ---
http://www.npr.org/sections/education/
Michel Foucault’s Controversial Life and Philosophy Explored in a Revealing
1993 Documentary ---
http://www.openculture.com/2013/08/michel-foucaults-controversial-life-and-philosophy-explored-in-a-revealing-1993-documentary.html
Also see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault
Free Social Science and Philosophy Tutorials
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Social
Federal Reserve Education ---
http://www.federalreserveeducation.org/
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago: Econ in the Classroom ---
http://www.chicagofed.org/webpages/education/econ_classroom/
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco: Center for Pacific Basin Studies
---
http://www.frbsf.org/economics/pbc/
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco: Teacher Resources Index ---
http://www.frbsf.org/education/teachers/index.html
UN-Habitat: Sustainable Urban Development Network ---
http://www.unhabitat.org/categories.asp?catid=570
Mashable (social media news) ---
http://mashable.com/
Bob Jensen's threads on the social media ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ListservRoles.htm
American Anthropological Association ---
http://www.aaanet.org/
Environmental Protection Agency: Learn the Issues ---
http://www2.epa.gov/learn-issues
The Habitable Planet: A Systems Approach to Environmental Science
http://www.learner.org/resources/series209.html
The Environmental Institute ---
http://www.umass.edu/tei/
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: Lesson Resources for
Teachers ---
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/scied/teachers/
Global Warming Science ---
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/earth-atmospheric-and-planetary-sciences/12-340-global-warming-science-spring-2012/index.htm
Integrating U.S. Climate, Energy, and Transportation Policies ---
http://www.rand.org/pubs/conf_proceedings/2009/RAND_CF256.pdf
Climate Literacy & Energy Awareness Network ---
http://cleanet.org/
University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute ---
http://www.umtri.umich.edu/news.ph
Northwestern University Transportation Center ---
http://www.transportation.northwestern.edu/
University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute ---
http://www.umtri.umich.edu/news.ph
Virginia Tech Transportation Institute ---
http://www.vtti.vt.edu/
National Renewable Energy Laboratory: Education Programs ---
http://www.nrel.gov/education/
From the Scout Report on July 26, 2013
With a flurry of new projects, interest continues to grow in
transit-oriented development
All aboard: Rail Centric Construction Gets Back on Track
http://urbanland.uli.org/Articles/2013/Jul/SpivakAllAboard?utm_source=uli&utm_medium=eblast&utm_campaign=072213
Citi grant supports transit-oriented development
http://www.stamfordplus.com/stm/information/nws1/publish/realestate/Citi-grant-supports-transit-oriented-development-in-Fairfield-County20557.shtml
What is TOD?
http://www.reconnectingamerica.org/what-we-do/what-is-tod/
Center for Transit-Oriented Development
http://www.cnt.org/tcd/projects/ctod/
Our Built and Natural Environments: A Technical Review of the Interactions
Between Land Use, Transportation, and Environmental Quality
http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/pdf/b-and-n/b-and-n-EPA-231K13001.pdf
Regional Transportation Authority: Transit-Oriented Development
http://rtachicago.com/initiatives/land-use-transit-oriented-development.html
Bob Jensen's threads on Economics, Anthropology, Social Sciences, and
Philosophy tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Social
Law and Legal Studies
Bob Jensen's threads on law and legal studies are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Law
Math Tutorials
Pedagogy in Action: the SERC portal for Educators (Carleton College's
resources for science, engineering, and math Teachers) ---
http://serc.carleton.edu/sp/library/studentresearch/index.html
Saylor.org: Free Education ---
http://www.saylor.org/
Mathematics in Movies: Harvard Prof Curates 150+ Scenes
---
Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/11/mathematics_in_movies.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Bates College Online Resources for Calculus and Linear Algebra
---
http://abacus.bates.edu/~etowne/mathresources.html
Bob Jensen's threads on free online mathematics tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#050421Mathematics
History Tutorials
Histomap of World History ---
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/08/12/the_1931_histomap_the_entire_history_of_the_world_distilled_into_a_single.html
World History ---
http://www.fsmitha.com/maps.html
Bridging World History ---
http://www.learner.org/resources/series197.html
3,000 Years of World History ---
http://www.hyperhistory.com/
The Encyclopedia of World History http://www.bartleby.com/67/
HISTORICAL INFORMATION RESOURCES ---
http://www.refdesk.com/facthist.html
Digital History of the U.S.
---
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/timeline/timelineN.cfm
The Getty Puts 4600 Art Images Into the Public Domain (and There’s More to
Come) ---
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox/1407cba473cbff67
Museum of Fine Arts: Hippie Chic ---
http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/hippie-chic
Library of Congress: Places in History ---
http://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/placesinhistory/
Michel Foucault’s Controversial Life and Philosophy Explored in a Revealing
1993 Documentary ---
http://www.openculture.com/2013/08/michel-foucaults-controversial-life-and-philosophy-explored-in-a-revealing-1993-documentary.html
Also see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault
Free Social Science and Philosophy Tutorials
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Social
NPR: Education ---
http://www.npr.org/sections/education/
The Chicago Homer (classical studies) ---
http://digital.library.northwestern.edu/homer/
Classical Studies Resources ---
http://classicalstudy.luckycontent.com/
Railroads and the Making of Modern America ---
http://railroads.unl.edu/
Transcontinental Railroad Pictures and Exhibits ---
http://cprr.org/Museum/Exhibits.html
Steamtown National Historic Site (steam locomotives) ---
http://www.nps.gov/stea/index.htm
American Railroad Journal ---
http://digital.library.umsystem.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?page=home;c=arj
Railroad Picture Archives ---
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/
American Railroad Journal ---
http://digital.library.umsystem.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?page=home;c=arj
The Countryside Transformed: The Railroad and the Eastern Shore of Virginia,
1870-1935 ---
http://eshore.vcdh.virginia.edu/index.php
Railroads: The Transformation of Capitalism ---
http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/railroads/
Accounting History (Railroad)
"The Collapse of the Railway Mania & the Birth of Accounting," by
Paul Kedrosky, Paul Kedrosky,com, · July 18, 2011 ---
Click Here
http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2011/07/the-collapse-of-the-railway-mania-the-birth-of-accounting.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+InfectiousGreed+%28Paul+Kedrosky%27s+Infectious+Greed%29
AmericanRadioWorks: Power and Smoke: A Nation Built on Coal ---
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/coal/
1922 Photo: Claude Monet Stands on the Japanese Footbridge He Painted Through
the Years ---
http://www.openculture.com/2013/08/1922-photo-claude-monet-stands-on-the-japanese-footbridge.html
The First Sex Manual Published in North America, 1766 ---
http://www.openculture.com/2013/08/the-first-sex-manual-published-in-north-america-1766.html
The “Celebrity Lecture Series” From Michigan State Features Talks by Great
Writers of Our Time ---
http://www.openculture.com/2013/08/the-celebrity-lecture-series-from-michigan-state-features-talks-by-great-writers-of-our-time.html
Bob Jensen's threads on history tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#History
Also see
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Boston Abolitionists, 1831-1865 ---
https://www.masshist.org/features/boston-abolitionists
Slavery in America: Image Gallery ---
http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/scripts/sia/gallery.cgi
Free Library of Philadelphia: Historical Images of Philadelphia ---
http://libwww.freelibrary.org/hip/
Philadelphia Jewish Archives Photographs ---
http://digital.library.temple.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15037coll15
Oregon State Parks and Recreation ---
http://www.oregonstateparks.org/
Landmarks Illinois ---
http://www.landmarks.org/
Illinois Harvest ---
http://illinoisharvest.grainger.uiuc.edu
Illinois Digital Archives ---
http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/
Language Tutorials
Bob Jensen's links to language tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Languages
Music Tutorials
Petrucci Music Library ---
http://imslp.org/
Amazing Grace Like You Never Heard It Before ---
http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=1312
Bob Jensen's threads on free music tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#050421Music
Bob Jensen's threads on music performances ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm
Writing Tutorials
The Impact of Digital Tools on Student Writing and How Writing is Taught in
Schools ---
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Teachers-technology-and-writing.aspx
"The Best Books on Writing, NYC, Animals, and More: A Collaboration with the
New York Public Library," by Maria Popova, Brain Pickings, August 3, 2013 ---
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/07/29/nypl-books/
See What Happens When You Run Finnegans Wake Through a Spell Checker ---
http://www.openculture.com/2013/07/what-happens-when-you-run-finnegans-wake-through-a-spell-checker.html
The “Celebrity Lecture Series” From Michigan State Features Talks by Great
Writers of Our Time ---
http://www.openculture.com/2013/08/the-celebrity-lecture-series-from-michigan-state-features-talks-by-great-writers-of-our-time.html
Bob Jensen's helpers for writers are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob3.htm#Dictionaries
Updates from WebMD ---
http://www.webmd.com/
July 30, 2013
July 31, 2013
August 2, 2013
August 6, 2013
Channel Blockers for Blood Pressure Linked to Breast
Cancer Risk, Study Finds
New Health Insurance Tool for Business Owners
Sugary Drinks Tied to Preschoolers' Extra Pounds
Mother's Asthma During Pregnancy
FDA Warns of Rare Acetaminophen Risk
400 Now Sickened in Stomach Bug Outbreak
Could Dietary Tweaks Ease Type 1 Diabetes?
FDA Defines 'Gluten-Free' for Food Labels
Childhood Abuse & Later Thyroid Problems for Women
August 8, 2013
August 9, 2013
August 10, 2013
August 12, 2013
August 13, 2013
August 14, 2013
August 15, 2013
August 16, 2013
August 17, 2013
Foundations of Nutrition Science ---
http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/76
Healthy Lifestyle ---
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/HealthyLivingIndex/HealthyLivingIndex
USDA: Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion ---
http://www.cnpp.usda.gov/
Team Nutrition: Educator Resources ---
http://teamnutrition.usda.gov/educators.html
Examination of Front-of-Package Nutrition Rating Systems and Symbols ---
http://iom.edu/Activities/Nutrition/NutritionSymbols.aspx
Externalities: Using Taxes to Change Behavior
Cigarette Taxes Deter Heavy Drinking, Study Says ---
http://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/news/20130809/cigarette-taxes-deter-heavy-drinking-study-suggests
What Prisoners Ate at Alcatraz in 1946: A Vintage Prison Menu ---
http://www.openculture.com/2013/08/what-prisoners-ate-at-alcatraz-in-1946-a-vintage-prison-menu.html
Perhaps this menu reduced desire to escape from Alcatraz.
I wonder if a 21st Century restaurant on The Rock could make a go of it
serving up the same scrumptious meals included in boat tours to the old prison?
Better yet a luxury hotel to boot that includes free striped pajamas.
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: Lesson Resources for
Teachers ---
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/scied/teachers/
A Bit of Humor
The 15 Weirdest Guinness World Records ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-weirdest-guinness-world-records-2013-7
John Oliver's Hilarious Summary Of Why Australian Elections Are Better Than
US Elections ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/john-oliver-australian-elections-daily-show-2013-8
"Modern Masterpieces of Comedic Genius: The Art of the Humorous Amazon
Review," by Maria Popova, Brain Pickings, May 20, 2013 ---
Phyllis Dillar Quotations forwarded by Dan Gheorghe Somnea
Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?
Phyllis Diller
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the
walk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller
A smile is a
curve that sets everything straight.
Phyllis Diller
The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the
same outfit in public.
Phyllis Diller
Best way to get rid of kitchen odours: Eat out.
Phyllis Diller
A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.
Phyllis Diller
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller
I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move
in with them.
Phyllis Diller
Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is
the only thing that keeps some parents going.
Phyllis
Diller
My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the
kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at
the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as
usual.
Phyllis
Diller
Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off.
Phyllis
Diller
Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a
bank has just been robbed.
Phyllis
Diller
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives
teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them
to sit down and shut up.
Phyllis
Diller
Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
Phyllis
Diller
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked
like.
Phyllis Diller
You know you're old if your walker has an airbag.
Phyllis
Diller
I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing.
Phyllis
Diller
What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for
a job the next day.
Phyllis
Diller
The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally
got gin in the steam iron.
Phyllis
Diller
Whatever
you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his
eyesight.
Phyllis Diller
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short
and cheap?
Phyllis Diller
I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.
Phyllis Diller
Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle -
keep away from children.
Phyllis
Diller
I asked the waiter, 'Is this milk fresh?' He said, 'Lady, three
hours ago it was grass.'
Phyllis
Diller
The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you
can't see him laughing.
Phyllis
Diller
You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type.
Phyllis
Diller
It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be
rotten to the core.
Phyllis
Diller
There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many
men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say
they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?
Phyllis
Diller
His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.
Phyllis Diller
Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
Phyllis Diller
My photographs don't do me justice - they just look like me.
Phyllis Diller
There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.
Phyllis Diller
I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away.
Phyllis Diller
My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl
Harbor.
Phyllis Diller
My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick
knee.
Phyllis Diller
Humor Between June 1-30, 2013 ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book13q2.htm#Humor063013
Humor Between June 30, 2013 ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book13q2.htm#Humor063013
Humor Between May 1-31, 2013 ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book13q2.htm#Humor053113
Humor Between April 1-30, 2013 ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book13q2.htm#Humor04301
Humor Between March 1-31, 2013 ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book13q1.htm#Humor033113
Humor Between February 1-28, 2013 ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book13q1.htm#Humor022813
Humor Between January 1-31, 2013 ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book13q1.htm#Humor013113
Humor Between December 1-31, 2012 ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book12q4.htm#Humor123112
Humor Between November 1-30, 2012 ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book12q4.htm#Humor113012
Humor Between October 1-31, 2012 ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book12q4.htm#Humor103112
Humor Between September 1-30, 2012 ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book12q3.htm#Humor093012
Humor Between August 1-31, 2012 ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book12q3.htm#Humor083112
Humor Between July 1-31, 2012 ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book12q3.htm#Humor073112
Humor Between June 1-30, 2012 ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book12q2.htm#Humor063012
Humor Between May 1-31, 2012 ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book12q2.htm#Humor053112
Humor Between April 1-30, 2012 ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book12q2.htm#Humor043012
Humor Between March 1-31, 2012 ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book12q1.htm#Humor033112
Humor Between February 1-29, 2012 ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book12q1.htm#Humor022912
Humor Between January 1-31, 2012 ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book12q1.htm#Humor013112
Tidbits Archives ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Click here to search Bob Jensen's web site if you have key words to enter ---
Search Site.
For example if you want to know what Jensen documents have the term "Enron"
enter the phrase Jensen AND Enron. Another search engine that covers Trinity and
other universities is at
http://www.searchedu.com/
Online Distance Education Training and Education ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm
For-Profit Universities Operating in the Gray
Zone of Fraud (College, Inc.) ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#ForProfitFraud
Shielding Against Validity Challenges in Plato's Cave ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm
-
With a Rejoinder from the 2010 Senior Editor of The Accounting Review
(TAR), Steven J. Kachelmeier
- With Replies in Appendix 4 to Professor Kachemeier by Professors
Jagdish Gangolly and Paul Williams
- With Added Conjectures in Appendix 1 as to Why the Profession of
Accountancy Ignores TAR
- With Suggestions in Appendix 2 for Incorporating Accounting Research
into Undergraduate Accounting Courses
The Cult of Statistical Significance:
How Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/DeirdreMcCloskey/StatisticalSignificance01.htm
How Accountics Scientists Should Change:
"Frankly, Scarlett, after I get a hit for my resume in The Accounting Review
I just don't give a damn"
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm
One more mission in what's left of my life will be to try to change this
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm
What went wrong in accounting/accountics research?
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#WhatWentWrong
The Sad State of Accountancy Doctoral
Programs That Do Not Appeal to Most Accountants ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#DoctoralPrograms
AN ANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTION OF RESEARCH
CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE ACCOUNTING REVIEW: 1926-2005 ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/395wpTAR/Web/TAR395wp.htm#_msocom_1
Bob Jensen's threads on accounting theory
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm
Tom Lehrer on Mathematical Models and
Statistics ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfZWyUXn3So
Systemic problems of accountancy (especially the
vegetable nutrition paradox) that probably will never be solved ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudConclusion.htm#BadNews
World Clock ---
http://www.peterussell.com/Odds/WorldClock.php
Facts about the earth in real time --- http://www.worldometers.info/
Interesting Online Clock
and Calendar
---
http://home.tiscali.nl/annejan/swf/timeline.swf
Time by Time Zones ---
http://timeticker.com/
Projected Population Growth (it's out of control) ---
http://geography.about.com/od/obtainpopulationdata/a/worldpopulation.htm
Also see
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/P/Populations.html
Facts about population growth (video) ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U
Projected U.S. Population Growth ---
http://www.carryingcapacity.org/projections75.html
Real time meter of the U.S. cost of the war in Iraq ---
http://www.costofwar.com/
Enter you zip code to get Census Bureau comparisons ---
http://zipskinny.com/
Sure wish there'd be a little good news today.
Free (updated) Basic Accounting Textbook --- search for Hoyle at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
CPA Examination ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cpa_examination
Free CPA Examination Review Course Courtesy of Joe Hoyle ---
http://cpareviewforfree.com/
Rick Lillie's education, learning, and technology blog is at
http://iaed.wordpress.com/
Accounting News, Blogs, Listservs, and Social
Networking ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm
Bob Jensen's Threads ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New
Bookmarks ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud
Updates ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Online Books, Poems, References,
and Other Literature
In the past I've provided links to various types electronic literature available
free on the Web.
I created a page that summarizes those various links ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Some of Bob Jensen's Tutorials
Accounting program news items for colleges are posted at
http://www.accountingweb.com/news/college_news.html
Sometimes the news items provide links to teaching resources for accounting
educators.
Any college may post a news item.
Accounting and Taxation News Sites ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm
For an elaboration on the reasons you should join a ListServ (usually for
free) go to http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ListServRoles.htm
AECM
(Educators)
http://listserv.aaahq.org/cgi-bin/wa.exe?HOME
AECM is an email Listserv list which
provides a forum for discussions of all hardware and software
which can be useful in any way for accounting education at the
college/university level. Hardware includes all platforms and
peripherals. Software includes spreadsheets, practice sets,
multimedia authoring and presentation packages, data base
programs, tax packages, World Wide Web applications, etc.
Over the years the AECM has become the worldwide forum for
accounting educators on all issues of accountancy and accounting
education, including debates on accounting standards, managerial
accounting, careers, fraud, forensic accounting, auditing,
doctoral programs, and critical debates on academic (accountics)
research, publication, replication, and validity testing.
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CPAS-L
(Practitioners)
http://pacioli.loyola.edu/cpas-l/ (Closed
Down)
CPAS-L provides a forum for discussions of
all aspects of the practice of accounting. It provides an
unmoderated environment where issues, questions, comments,
ideas, etc. related to accounting can be freely discussed.
Members are welcome to take an active role by posting to CPAS-L
or an inactive role by just monitoring the list. You qualify for
a free subscription if you are either a CPA or a professional
accountant in public accounting, private industry, government or
education. Others will be denied access. |
Yahoo (Practitioners)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xyztalk
This forum is for CPAs to discuss the activities of the AICPA.
This can be anything from the CPA2BIZ portal to the XYZ
initiative or anything else that relates to the AICPA. |
AccountantsWorld
http://accountantsworld.com/forums/default.asp?scope=1
This site hosts various discussion groups on such topics as
accounting software, consulting, financial planning, fixed
assets, payroll, human resources, profit on the Internet, and
taxation. |
Business Valuation Group
BusValGroup-subscribe@topica.com
This discussion group is headed by Randy Schostag
[RSchostag@BUSVALGROUP.COM] |
FEI's Financial Reporting Blog
Smart Stops on the Web, Journal of Accountancy, March 2008 ---
http://www.aicpa.org/pubs/jofa/mar2008/smart_stops.htm
FINANCIAL REPORTING PORTAL
www.financialexecutives.org/blog
Find news highlights from the SEC, FASB
and the International Accounting
Standards Board on this financial
reporting blog from Financial Executives
International. The site, updated daily,
compiles regulatory news, rulings and
statements, comment letters on
standards, and hot topics from the Web’s
largest business and accounting
publications and organizations. Look for
continuing coverage of SOX requirements,
fair value reporting and the Alternative
Minimum Tax, plus emerging issues such
as the subprime mortgage crisis,
international convergence, and rules for
tax return preparers. |
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The CAlCPA Tax Listserv September 4, 2008 message from Scott Bonacker
[lister@bonackers.com]
Scott has been a long-time contributor to the AECM listserv (he's a techie as
well as a practicing CPA)
I found another listserve
that is exceptional -
CalCPA maintains
http://groups.yahoo.com/taxtalk/
and they let almost anyone join it.
Jim Counts, CPA is moderator.
There are several highly
capable people that make frequent answers to tax questions posted there, and
the answers are often in depth.
Scott
Scott forwarded the following message from Jim
Counts
Yes you may mention info on
your listserve about TaxTalk. As part of what you say please say [... any
CPA or attorney or a member of the Calif Society of CPAs may join. It is
possible to join without having a free Yahoo account but then they will not
have access to the files and other items posted.
Once signed in on their Yahoo account go to
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/TaxTalk/ and I believe in
top right corner is Join Group. Click on it and answer the few questions and
in the comment box say you are a CPA or attorney, whichever you are and I
will get the request to join.
Be aware that we run on the average 30 or move emails per day. I encourage
people to set up a folder for just the emails from this listserve and then
via a rule or filter send them to that folder instead of having them be in
your inbox. Thus you can read them when you want and it will not fill up the
inbox when you are looking for client emails etc.
We currently have about 830 CPAs and attorneys nationwide but mainly in
California.... ]
Please encourage your members
to join our listserve.
If any questions let me know.
Jim Counts CPA.CITP CTFA
Hemet, CA
Moderator TaxTalk
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Many useful accounting sites (scroll down) ---
http://www.iasplus.com/links/links.htm
Bob Jensen's Sort-of Blogs ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/JensenBlogs.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New
Bookmarks ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud
Updates ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Some
Accounting History Sites
Bob Jensen's
Accounting History in a Nutshell and Links ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#AccountingHistory
Accounting
History Libraries at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) ---
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/accountancy/libraries.html
The above libraries include international accounting history.
The above libraries include film and video historical collections.
MAAW Knowledge Portal for Management and Accounting ---
http://maaw.info/
Academy of Accounting Historians and the Accounting Historians Journal ---
http://www.accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/aah/
Sage Accounting History ---
http://ach.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/11/3/269
A nice timeline on the development of U.S. standards and the evolution of
thinking about the income statement versus the balance sheet is provided at:
"The Evolution of U.S. GAAP: The Political Forces Behind Professional
Standards (1930-1973)," by Stephen A. Zeff, CPA Journal, January 2005
---
http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/105/infocus/p18.htm
Part II covering years 1974-2003 published in February 2005 ---
http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/205/index.htm
A nice
timeline of accounting history ---
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/2187711/A-HISTORY-OF-ACCOUNTING
From Texas
A&M University
Accounting History Outline ---
http://acct.tamu.edu/giroux/history.html
Bob
Jensen's timeline of derivative financial instruments and hedge accounting ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudRotten.htm#DerivativesFrauds
History of
Fraud in America ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/415wp/AmericanHistoryOfFraud.htm
Also see
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Fraud.htm
Bob Jensen's
Threads ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
All
my online pictures ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/PictureHistory/
Professor Robert E. Jensen (Bob)
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen
190 Sunset Hill Road
Sugar Hill, NH 03586
Phone: 603-823-8482
Email:
rjensen@trinity.edu