Tidbits on November 12, 2015
Bob Jensen
at
Trinity University
Wes Lavin's Foliage Season in 2015
This is repeated because I screwed up the link in the previous edition of
Tidbits
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/Foliage/Set19/FoliageSet10.htm
Tidbits on November 12, 2015
Bob Jensen
Bob Jensen's Tidbits ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
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http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Bookmarks for the World's Library ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
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
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More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
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http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
Updates from WebMD
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Online Video, Slide Shows, and Audio
This 18-year-old just won a $400,000 prize for
creating a video on Einstein’s theory of relativity ---
Promo:
http://www.businessinsider.com/ryan-chester-won-science-prize-breakthrough-ceremony-relativity-2015-11
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYv5GsXEf1o
Jensen Comment
I still don't understand this theory well enough to teach it.
Video: Gravity Visualized by High School
Teacher in an Amazingly Elegant & Simple Way ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/11/gravity-visualized-by-high-school-teacher-in-an-elegantly-simple-way.html
See Galileo’s Famous Gravity Experiment Performed in the World’s Largest
Vacuum Chamber, and on the Moon ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/10/see-galileos-famous-gravity-experiment-performed-in-the-worlds-largest-vacuum-chamber-and-on-the-moon.html
Crash Course Kids (YouTube video series for science education) ---
https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcoursekids
Animated map shows how railroads spread across
America ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/history-map-railroads-spreading-across-united-states-train-2015-11
"YouTube Creates
New Section to Highlight College Content," by Jeffrey R. Young, Chronicle of
Higher Education, March 27, 2009 ---
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3684&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
TeacherTube (all topics for teachers to use and share) ---
http://www.teachertube.com/
There are now
nearly 7,000 accounting education videos on YouTube, most of which are in very
basic accounting.
But there are nearly 150 videos in advanced accounting.
There are nearly
70 videos on XBRL
YouTube Education
Channels ---
http://www.youtube.com/education?b=400
Teaching Channel ---
https://www.teachingchannel.org/
MIT Video (150 channels and over 12,000 videos) ---
http://video.mit.edu/
"10 Faculty Perspectives on What Works in Lecture Capture,"
Chronicle of Higher Education, November 4, 2011 ---
http://chronicle.com/article/10-Faculty-Perspectives-on/129268/
Free music downloads ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm
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
A Great Rendition of "You Raise Me Up" ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxDXnM1Jd6Q
A Tale Of Two Sergeys: Boston Symphony Orchestra At Carnegie
Hall ---
http://www.npr.org/event/music/451116807/a-tale-of-two-sergeys-boston-symphony-orchestra-at-carnegie-hall
The New York Philharmonic At Carnegie Hall ---
http://www.npr.org/event/music/442287960/new-york-philharmonic-live-at-carnegie-hall-wednesday
Download 10,000 of the First
Recordings of Music Ever Made, Courtesy of the UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive
---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/11/download-10000-of-the-first-recordings-of-music-ever-made-courtesy-of-the-ucsb-cylinder-audio-archive.html
My Bubba is the duo of Sweden's My
and Iceland's Bubba, women whose quirky, delicate, sweetly sung folk songs
---
http://www.npr.org/event/music/454889833/my-bubba-tiny-desk-concert
Studio 360 (pop culture and the
arts) ---
http://www.studio360.org/
Musician Plays Signature Drum Parts
of 71 Beatles Songs in 5 Minutes: A Whirlwind Tribute ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/10/musician-plays-signature-drum-parts-of-71-beatles-songs-in-5-minutes.html
My Favorite Boogie Woogie
For Boogie Woogie Piano Dancers (GREAT!) ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QQzbCmlZM4
More free Boogie Woogie by Sylvan Zingg (in concert)
---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDJv9FnaQys
Others --- Search for "Sylvan Zingg" on YouTube ---
https://www.youtube.com/
Other Boogie Woogie Sites (including free lesson sites) ---
http://www.boogiewoogiepiano.net/piano-jukebox/other-web-sites/other-websites.html
Boogie Woogie on Three
Grand Pianos ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-piBl48SFio
Tommy Johnson the
Boogie Woogie Man --- Search for him on YouTube
Jo Ann Castle from the Lawrence
Welk Show --- Search for her on YouTube
Big Tiny Little from the Lawrence
Welk Show --- Search for him on YouTube
Bring Back the 50s (Carolyn) ---
http://carolynspreciousmemories.com/50s/sitemap.html
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
The 23 most beautiful Google Street View pictures on Earth ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-most-beautiful-google-street-views-on-earth-2015-10
Awesome Pictures of the Grand
Canyon ---
http://www.humfer.net/gcanyon/index.html
Hand-Colored 1860s Photographs
Reveal the Last Days of Samurai Japan ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/11/hand-colored-1860s-photographs-reveal-the-last-days-of-samurai-japan.html
Historic rains transform the driest
place on Earth into a floral oasis ---
http://www.techinsider.io/rain-transforms-atacama-driest-desert-into-flowering-oasis-2015-10
31 beautiful vintage photos that
show what New York City looked like in the 1940s ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/beautiful-vintage-photos-of-manhattan-in-the-1940s-2013-10
A Walk Around the White House
http://hawthornephoto.com/walk.htm
The Interior of the Hindenburg
Revealed in 1930s Color Photos: Inside the Ill-Fated Airship ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/11/the-interior-of-the-hindenburg-revealed-in-1930s-color-photos.html
Happy birthday Marine Corps! Here
are 37 powerful pictures of the Marine Corps through history ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/marines-birthday
The Japanese created stealthy
submarine aircraft carriers during WWII ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-japanese-created-stealthy-submarine-aircraft-carriers-during-wwii-2015-11
The Japanese created stealthy
submarine aircraft carriers during WWII ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-japanese-created-stealthy-submarine-aircraft-carriers-during-wwii-2015-11
Before-and-after pictures show how
climate change is destroying the Earth ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/climate-change-before-and-after-pictures-of-earth-2015-2
30,000 Works of Art by Edvard Munch
& Other Artists Put Online by Norway’s National Museum of Art ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/10/30000-works-of-art-put-online-by-norways-national-museum-of-art.html
300+ Etchings by Rembrandt Now Free
Online, Thanks to the Morgan Library & Museum ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/11/300-etchings-by-rembrandt-now-free-online-thanks-to-the-morgan-library-museum.html
Indianapolis Museum of Art |
ArtBabble ---
http://artbabble.org/partner/indianapolis-museum-art
A drought in Mexico has revealed
something incredible ---
http://www.techinsider.io/photos-inside-temple-of-quechula-2015-11
Photos: New York City sends old
subway cars to a watery grave in the Atlantic Ocean ---
http://qz.com/534675/photos-new-york-city-sends-old-subway-cars-to-a-watery-grave-in-the-atlantic-ocean/
Bob Jensen's threads on art history ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm#ArtHistory
Bob Jensen's threads on history, literature and art ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#History
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
Bob Jensen's threads on libraries ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm#---Libraries
W.B. Yeats’ Poem “When You Are Old” Adapted into
Japanese Manga Comic ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/11/w-b-yeats-poem-when-you-are-old-adapted-into-japanese-manga-comic.html
Rare 1930s Audio: W.B. Yeats Reads
Four of His Poems ---
Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2012/06/rare_1930s_audio_wb_yeats_reads_four_of_his_poems.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Read Work From 2015 Nobel Prize Winner in
Literature Svetlana Alexievich ---
http://daily.jstor.org/read-work-2015-nobel-prize-winner-literature-svetlana-alexievich/
Global Oneness Project (multicultural advocacy
stories) ---
http://www.globalonenessproject.org/
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 November 12, 2015
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2015/TidbitsQuotations111215.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/
GAO: Fiscal Outlook & The Debt ---
http://www.gao.gov/fiscal_outlook/overview
Bob Jensen's threads on entitlements ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Entitlements.htm
Bob Jensen's health care messaging updates ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Health.htm
We are witnessing
the shift of power to athletes on college campuses. The University of Missouri
football team is the main force that toppled the president plus the chancellor
of the university.
On the other hand the University of North Carolina top administers who provided
fake courses and A grades to athletes were protected for 20 years by the
athletes.
Bob Jensen
To some observers, the
resignations demonstrated that athletes have outsize collective power, even
absent formal bargaining rights. John Paul (Sonny) Vaccaro, a retired Adidas and
Nike executive, described the events at Missouri as watershed. "This is what
I’ve believed could happen for 30 years and what I think is the deepest fear for
the NCAA — athletes control what happens on campus," Mr. Vaccaro told Yahoo
Sports. "This is an unbelievable step forward for athletes."
Jack Stripling ,
Chronicle of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/article/Thrust-Into-a-National-Debate/234131?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elq=5d9ac63b9cd0452986769a3ffcb21aca&elqCampaignId=1797&elqaid=6828&elqat=1&elqTrackId=a2c66509e54f4a98a8f670bb1c084c8e
. . . behind back of
professor who assigned the grades
"Damning Report on Grade Changing," by Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed,
November 11, 2015 ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/11/texas-tech-finds-dean-inappropriately-put-place-process-change-grades-some-students?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=5cf93c1075-DNU20151111&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-5cf93c1075-197565045
Texas Tech dean
quits after university panel finds he inappropriately set up system that
raised several students' grades -- in violation of university procedures and
behind back of professor who assigned
the grades.
Continued in article
When should universities discourage leaves of
absence?
Most universities discourage non-tenured faculty
on tenure track from taking unpaid leaves, if they can afford to do so, since
this almost certainly can become an advantage for added time to do research and
get research journal publication hits relative to proletariat non-tenured peers
who cannot afford to take the time off.
The question I have is how to keep paid
paternity and maternity leaves from creating the same unfairness relative to
peers who do not get added time for publish or perish time deadlines?
Of course the counter argument is that having
children creates disadvantages in in the time-to-tenure deadlines.
Any thoughts on this?
Clearly it's not such an issue when leaves are short such as less than six
months. However, leaves for 1-4 years are more controversial.
In terms of game playing I know of one instance
where the newly-minted Ph.D. just did not enter the job market until her
children were school aged and her journal hits mounted up before entering the
job market.
The recent sex scandal of Stanford's business
dean reveals that Stanford University has a policy that discourages tenured and
untenured faculty for taking very long unpaid leaves. Presumably the reason is
that it's too hard to keep a tenure slot open for a professor who is gone for a
relatively long time (and may indeed not even return).
Some universities like Harvard relax this policy
when the leaves are for public service such as when Larry Summers became the top
economic advisor to the president of the USA. In the Stanford incident mentioned
above I think the woman's husband took extended leaves to work for a Silicon
Valley company (Apple?) I think he now has a lawsuit pending against Stanford
for firing him due to talking too many unpaid leaves (not because his wife had
the extramarital liaisons with the dean during his absence from Stanford where
she is still a business professor).
What made me think about this is a link provided
this morning by the Harvard Business Review Blog:
"The Impact of Paternity Leave on Fathers' Future Earnings" ---
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/258055635_The_Impact_of_Paternity_Leave_on_Fathers%27_Future_Earnings
How to Make Traveling More Efficient.
Comfortable, and Less Costly ---
http://www.journalofaccountancy.com/newsletters/2015/oct/save-money-and-time-when-traveling.html
2014: The Year in Interactive Storytelling,
Graphics, and Multimedia ---
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/29/us/year-in-interactive-storytelling.html
Bob Jensen's threads on tools and tricks of
the trade ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm
With New Funding, Udacity Valued At $1 Billion ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/11/12/new-funding-udacity-valued-1-billion?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=d6b04e7ae8-DNU20151112&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-d6b04e7ae8-197565045
Bob Jensen's threads on MOOCs with credit options ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership
This is a "trade deal" being actively pushed by President Obama but opposed by
Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Donald Trump
. . .
In December 2014 Senator
(I-VT) Bernie Sanders denounced the TPP,:
"Let’s be clear: the TPP
is much more than a “free trade” agreement. It is part of a global race to
the bottom to boost the profits of large corporations and Wall Street by
outsourcing jobs; undercutting worker rights; dismantling labor,
environmental, health, food safety and financial laws; and allowing
corporations to challenge our laws in international tribunals rather than
our own court system. If TPP was such a good deal for America, the
administration should have the courage to show the American people exactly
what is in this deal, instead of keeping the content of the TPP a
secret.[91]"
Jensen Comment
In class discussions we've all experienced students who talk so much that they
reveal not having done their assigned homework
The GOP on Economics: The good, the bad, and
the ugly at the fourth presidential debate ---
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-gop-on-economics-1447224376?mod=djemMER
. . .
Mr. Trump called it a
“terrible deal,” though it wasn’t obvious that he has any idea what’s in it.
His one specific criticism was its failure to deal with Chinese currency
manipulation. But it took Rand Paul to
point out that China isn’t part of the deal and would be happy if the
agreement collapsed so the U.S. would have less economic influence in Asia.
Continued in article
Jensen Comment
Contrary to what he claims I don't think Donald Trump knows a whole lot about
economics or management having thrown four of his biggest corporations into
bankruptcy.
CORRECT THE SYNTAX ERRORS
"How to debug Excel spreadsheets," Rayman Meservy and Marshall Romney,
Journal of Accountancy, November 1, 2015 ---
http://www.journalofaccountancy.com/issues/2015/nov/how-to-debug-excel-spreadsheets.html
"How to Maximize Excel's Recent Items Menu," AccountingWeb,
August 2013 (registration required) ---
http://www.accountingweb.com/article/how-maximize-excels-recent-items-menu/222214?source=technology
Excel guru David Ringstrom is back with another
informative article about how to streamline the process of accessing
recent spreadsheets. He explains the process not for just one version of
Excel, but for Excel 2003, 2007, 2010, and 2013. Also in today's news is
coverage of the 2013 Family Office Exchange's recent survey –
Benchmarking: Technology in the Family Office. Single and multifamily
offices were surveyed on their technology practices, including their
software selections, security, budgeting, staffing, and use of Cloud
computing.
"The First 8 Excel Tricks You Have To Learn On The Way To Becoming A
Master," by Walter Hickey, Business Insider, July 10, 2013 ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/excel-countif-sum-functions-if-sumproduct-dollar-sign-2013-7
"How To Use Index/Match, The One Microsoft Excel Trick That Separates The
Gurus From The Interns," by Walter Hickey, Business Insider, July 11,
2013 ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/excel-index-match-2013-7
We've been writing a lot about Microsoft Excel
formulas.
The program is the gold standard of programs.
It's elegant, ubiquitous, and outstandingly powerful.
American business lives and dies by the
spreadsheet, and everyone is always looking to hone their skills.
There's one trick, though, that separates the
quants from the interns.
That trick is Index/Match, a function that can
find any value in any spreadsheet.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/excel-index-match-2013-7?op=1#ixzz2Ypc1HDwB
Continued in article
Bob Jensen's Excel helpers ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/HelpersVideos.htm
"The Risk of Using Spreadsheets for Statistical Analysis,"
CFO.com Whitepaper, 2012 ---
http://www.cfo.com/whitepapers/index.cfm/displaywhitepaper/14668959?mid=107705&rid=107705.59400.30390
Abstract:
While spreadsheets are
widely used for statistical analysis, they are useful only to a certain
point. When used for a task they?re not designed to perform, or for a
task beyond the limit of their capabilities, using spreadsheets can be
risky. Read this paper to learn about more powerful yet easy-to-use
analytics alternatives that may be more suitable.
Gov't bans e-cigarettes in airline passengers' checked bags ---
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/b7a9890d65614363ad08b69501e89ef7/govt-bans-e-cigarettes-airline-passengers-checked-bags
Jensen Comment
There are parts of the world where e-cigarettes are difficult to replace after
landing. We recently had a houseguest who I would describe as an e-cigarette
chain smoker. I don't know that she is an addict, because she never revealed if
she could easily quit cold turkey. My guess is that she would go back to real
cigarettes if forced to give up e-cigarettes.
Secret IRS policy hides identity theft from
victims ---
http://www.wthr.com/story/30389540/secret-irs-policy-hides-identity-theft-from-victims-illegal-immigration
Jensen Comment
I agree. When I tried to file my 2014 tax return the IRS refused to accept it
and indicated that my return had already been filed. However, out of fear I
mailed in a paper copy of my return that had all the important 1099 forms
attached. The IRS accepted this paper return and doubled my refund. Never once,
however, did the IRS inform me that I was a victim of identity theft. Who knows
for sure? I think an ID thief did steal my SS Number and IRS Pin in the big
breach of 2013 Turbo Tax users who filed electronically via TurboTax in 2014.
See if you can score better than your kids|
Pew Research Center: Science Knowledge Quiz ---
http://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/science-knowledge/
An Oldie but Goodie
"The 12 Most Controversial Facts In Mathematics," by Walter Hickey,
Business Insider, March 25, 2013 ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-most-controversial-math-problems-2013-3
"Are Elite College Courses Better?" by
Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed, November 9, 2015 ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/09/study-questions-whether-elite-college-courses-are-higher-quality-others?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=6bb53edc04-DNU20151109&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-6bb53edc04-197565045
Study's preliminary findings
suggest that teaching quality and academic rigor are not necessarily
stronger at prestigious institutions.
The public -- and heck, many
people in higher education -- widely assume prestigious colleges and
universities provide the best quality education. That's why employers often
want to hire their graduates and why many parents want their children to
attend them.
And the assumption partially
explains the fascination from the media and others in recent years with
massive open online courses from Harvard and Stanford and other elite
universities: the courses were believed, rightly or wrongly, to be of higher
quality than all other online courses precisely because they came from
name-brand institutions.
But what if the richest and
best-known colleges and universities don't provide the highest-quality
education? Would the perceived value of degrees from those institutions
decline, and would colleges that were shown in fact to provide
higher-quality courses be held in more esteem than they are now?
The push to measure student
learning outcomes and other attempts to gauge which institutions, programs
and courses most help students learn have been motivated, in part, by
skepticism about the assumption that the most famous and selective
institutions deliver the highest-quality learning. But the quest for proof
to the contrary has at times seemed quixotic.
Continued in article
This is the comment sent in by Bob Jensen to
Inside Higher Ed
The teacher is only one part of what makes
up a "course."
The Ivy League has an edge on admitting the most qualified students in the
lower two quartiles. This actually makes a difference, in my viewpoint, in
some courses where class discussion is a major learning element in the
course such as in Socratic method courses, case discussion courses, and
problem-solving courses.
Also the rich universities can often afford
smaller classes and more specialized courses that cannot be afforded by
colleges with heavy budget pressures.
Also the Ivy League schools tend to have
tighter rules on such things as teacher availability outside of class and
teacher presence in class. In three-day academic conferences we almost never
find a Harvard Business School professor being present for more than a half
day because Harvard's rules are so tight about time allowances for being off
campus for faculty who are teaching during the term.
As Joe Louis said: "I been rich and I been
poor --- rich is better."
Ultimate Guide to Copyright for Students ---
http://www.whoishostingthis.com/resources/student-copyright/
Bob Jensen's threads on the DMCA ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/theworry.htm#Copyright
"Most Students And Faculty Simply Do Not Work
Very Hard," by Richard Vedder, Forbes via TaxProf Blog,
November 4, 2015 ---
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2015/11/lazy-rivers-and-lazy-campuses-most-students-and-faculty-simply-do-not-work-very-hard.html
. . .
[T]he average student spends
3.2 hours each weekday on educational activities – attending classes,
writing papers, reading assignments, studying for exams, or group projects.
That is 16 hours over the week. Add in perhaps nine hours on the weekend
(maybe three hours on Saturday, six on Sunday – generous estimates, I
suspect), you have 25 hours per week. Assume students spend 32 weeks
annually (two semesters) on academics, students work 800 hours a year. ...
What about faculty
workloads? While the U.S. Department of Education can probably tell you how
many female Hispanic anthropology professors there are in Mississippi, they
cannot tell you the average teaching load of U.S. professors – that is a
state secret – a dirty little secret the academic establishment does not
want discussed. ...
There is some spotty
historical data and a good bit of anecdotal evidence. Unquestionably faculty
teaching loads have fallen over time – probably, like with the students, by
one-third or more since 1960. In my department, teaching loads in 1950 were
typically 12 hours a week – four three hour courses. By 1965, when I started
teaching, they were nine hours – three courses. Today, they are 6 hours –
two courses. At top-flight research institutions, the three hour load is
increasingly common. ...
It is true that published
research has grown over time. Yet the typical professor is not a world-class
scholar, perhaps publishing one article a year, typically in journals very
few academics read. My guess is that the typical full-time professor in the
20 or so offices surrounding mine is in his/her office maybe 10 hours
weekly, in class another six, and maybe spending 8-10 hours a week on
academic pursuits at home, the library or academic meetings. The total work
load is about equal that of students, although faculty sometimes work in the
summer. ...
One reason students are
learning relatively little in college, and that employers often feel they
are unprepared for the workplace, is that people don’t work hard enough in
the academy. The universities have monopolies on credentialing people for
professional level work, and like most monopolists, abuse that power by
paying themselves well, not in “profits”, but in “dividends” or perks in the
form of light workloads and high job security.
Continued in article
Jensen Comment
Although I tend to agree that many faculty and students do not work very hard, I
find this a terrible article in terms of lack of evidence for its conclusions.
I think students in the era of grade inflation
find it easier to get high grades on reduced effort as median grades of a
college have risen to A- minus in most colleges. Since the 1980s students have
considerable power in determining the tenure and performance rewards of their
teachers. This along with other factors led to steep grad inflation in virtually
all USA colleges and universities ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm#RateMyProfessor
Having said this there are always some students who work so hard that they are
almost continually stressed out and continually in need of more sleep. Much
depends on the major. Students facing added hurdles such as the MCAT exam for
medical school, the CPA examination, a pharmacy licensing examination, or other
licensing examination face more pressures than just the pressures of course
grades.
Non-tenured faculty tend to work night and day
trying to get high teaching evaluations, complete research projects, and do
battle with journal referees trying to get articles published in research
journals. After obtaining tenure most of them carry on the same way, and some
actually work even harder tying to maintain their reputations while tending to
long-delayed rearing of tiny children.
Sadly a few, even ones without children, fall
into automatic pilot on teaching and lose much of their drive for research. For
them the problem compounds if they are not appointed to full professor within
5-10 years after obtaining tenure.
After relatively long delays in being promoted
to full professorships, some tenured associate professors become lifetime
associate professors. Some are on campus minimal amounts of time required for
teaching and office hours. They often pursue other means of earning income such
as writing books (e.g., fiction), starting small businesses (like organic
farms), and devoting huge amounts of time to sports (like golf and tennis) and
hobbies (like making furniture and musical instruments).
Faculty facing publish or perish pressures cope
in many ways. One way is increase the odds of journal acceptance with joint
authorships of two or four or even higher numbers of co-authors. For example,
rather than submitting one article a year as a sole author a joint author can
have his or her name on an average of four or more submissions a year. This
greatly increases the odds of getting hits on transcripts.
Promotion and tenure committees tend to count
the publishing hits no matter how many co-authors appear on the publications.
Another way of coping is to resubmit rejections to the exploding number of
academic journals. Prestigious journal hits are more highly valued on
transcripts but any hit beats no hit.
In my field of academic accountancy, unlike
engineering and medicine, the huge problem is that accounting faculty tend
not to focus on the most interesting topics of
the practicing profession. Accordingly the practicing profession mostly ignores
the academic accounting research journals and vice versa. Even the faculty
themselves are more interested in reading about the methodology than the
findings that are seldom of great interest to other researchers. Evidence here
is the absence of replication of academic accounting research papers ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theoryTar.htm
"A Conversation With Leonard Cassuto on ‘The Graduate School Mess’:
We are perpetuating a culture that mistreats graduate students" by Rebecca
Schuman, Chronicle of Higher Education, November 8, 2015 ---
http://chronicle.com/article/A-Conversation-With-Leonard/234101?cid=wb&utm_source=wb&utm_medium=en&elq=11997da5033448f4af5cbeb0a4d3fb6f&elqCampaignId=1789&elqaid=6820&elqat=1&elqTrackId=3555181cd10d49cd83d0558a2745573a
Leonard Cassuto
is mad as hell about the state of graduate study in the
United States, and he’s not going to take it anymore. Or,
all right, he’s passionately concerned, and he hopes that
his new book, The Graduate School Mess, will
inspire directors of American Ph.D. programs to stop and
think about what is and isn’t working.
Hint: Treating
the tenure-track market as if the very brief postwar hiring
boom is the norm isn’t working. Privileging graduate
students who aspire to become clones of their advisers isn’t
working. Coursework that focuses too much on the professors’
hyperspecialized scholarly interests, and not enough on the
breadth of knowledge that students need, isn’t working. And
pleading ignorance about how to prepare students for a
multitude of careers? That definitely isn’t working.
I recently
spoke with Cassuto over email about the "mess" he so
eloquently describes, about the long-entrenched contributors
to it, and about how best to grab a broom and start
cleaning. (Our conversation has been edited here for length
and clarity.)
The
book’s excellent history of graduate admissions points to
one of the largest and most all-encompassing problems in
doctoral programs today: They’re trapped in the 1950s, in
more ways than one. (A few examples: the inherent
conservatism that favors admission and cultivation of
normative students, the elevation of the research
professorship, etc.) What are some of the best ways out of
the Eisenhower era?
Cassuto: There’s a phrase that I like called
"holistic admissions." It means looking at the whole
candidate, and then assessing that candidate in relation to
his or her own goals, not the professor’s. Holistic
admissions takes more time — for one thing, you can’t begin
with the GRE score to see if it makes a cutoff. I tell a
story in The Graduate School Mess of how I admitted
a student without realizing that I was responding to the way
I thought she resembled me. When she was about to finish,
she told me that her career goal from the beginning had been
to teach at a community college. I thought back to when I
first read her folder and had to admit the uncomfortable
truth that I might have been prejudiced against her if she
had stated that goal when she was applying.
Your layout of a better way
to structure graduate programs (e.g., coursework that works
with students and not against them; comprehensives that work
for them in addition to the other way around) sounds eerily
familiar. My own program at the University of California at
Irvine was restructured to do exactly this shortly after I
came aboard. I was actually the first student to do the
"new" comprehensives, which consisted of a portfolio of four
"sample syllabi" for German language and literature courses.
I used almost every single one of those sample syllabi
(watered down for undergrads) in the four years I taught.
And I loved the way my program was structured. And yet —
very few of my colleagues have gotten ladder-level jobs
since 2007 (that’s going on nine years), and most of us left
the field after many years of heartbreak on the market. Now
my program’s in danger of being closed down entirely.
Continued in article
Jensen Comment
One problem of this article is that it tends to make too many generalizations
and extrapolations. Not all graduate programs are broken, especially when you
back off and take a view of all such programs across all disciplines. If German
languages and literature doctoral programs are broken this does not mean that
all science, medical research, and mathematics programs are broken. In some
fields becoming clones of advisors is not always a failure, especially when the
advisors really are on the leading edge of research and are giving students an
opening to follow along on that leading edge.
Are there potential abuses? Most certainly when the students become more like
data-gathering slaves serving a master. Another abuse is when the master
established a reputation somewhere along the way, but is no longer quite so hot
on the leading edge and does not encourage the student to pursue research where
the master is uninterested and/or inadequate.
There are economies of scale in a doctoral program. Larger programs have more
researchers and give students a menu of choices as to advisors and lines of
research. But size alone is not enough. For example, in my field of accounting
research there are very few programs that have tracks in accounting history or
specialized tracks in information systems such as ERP tracks Even in the larger
programs all available advisors think that if the dissertation does not have
equations its not leading edge research. Beginning in the 1960s having equations
in a dissertation became a necessary but not sufficient condition for
graduation.
Hopefully most disciplines have a commission or study group charged with
taking a critical look at what is wrong with higher education and academic
research in that discipline. In my field of accountancy, the current commission
is called the Pathways Commission that found enormous things wrong with
accounting education and research ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm
One of the major findings of the Pathways Commission is that academic
research takes little interest in the profession and the profession takes little
interest in the published papers in academic accounting research.
"Accounting for Innovation," by Elise Young, Inside Higher Ed,
July 31, 2012 ---
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/07/31/updating-accounting-curriculums-expanding-and-diversifying-field
Accounting programs should promote curricular
flexibility to capture a new generation of students who are more
technologically savvy, less patient with traditional teaching methods, and
more wary of the career opportunities in accounting, according to a report
released today by the
Pathways Commission, which studies the future of
higher education for accounting.
In 2008, the U.S. Treasury Department's Advisory
Committee on the Auditing Profession recommended that the American
Accounting Association and the American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants form a commission to study the future structure and content of
accounting education, and the Pathways Commission was formed to fulfill this
recommendation and establish a national higher education strategy for
accounting.
In the report, the commission acknowledges that
some sporadic changes have been adopted, but it seeks to put in place a
structure for much more regular and ambitious changes.
The report includes seven recommendations:
- Integrate
accounting research, education and practice for students, practitioners
and educators by bringing professionally oriented faculty more fully
into education programs.
- Promote
accessibility of doctoral education by allowing for flexible content and
structure in doctoral programs and developing multiple pathways for
degrees. The current path to an accounting Ph.D. includes lengthy,
full-time residential programs and research training that is for the
most part confined to quantitative rather than qualitative methods. More
flexible programs -- that might be part-time, focus on applied research
and emphasize training in teaching methods and curriculum development --
would appeal to graduate students with professional experience and
candidates with families, according to the report.
- Increase
recognition and support for high-quality teaching and connect faculty
review, promotion and tenure processes with teaching quality so that
teaching is respected as a critical component in achieving each
institution's mission. According to the report, accounting programs must
balance recognition for work and accomplishments -- fed by increasing
competition among institutions and programs -- along with recognition
for teaching excellence.
- Develop
curriculum models, engaging learning resources and mechanisms to easily
share them, as well as enhancing faculty development opportunities to
sustain a robust curriculum that addresses a new generation of students
who are more at home with technology and less patient with traditional
teaching methods.
- Improve the
ability to attract high-potential, diverse entrants into the profession.
- Create mechanisms
for collecting, analyzing and disseminating information about the market
needs by establishing a national committee on information needs,
projecting future supply and demand for accounting professionals and
faculty, and enhancing the benefits of a high school accounting
education.
- Establish an
implementation process to address these and future recommendations by
creating structures and mechanisms to support a continuous, sustainable
change process.
According to the report, its two sponsoring
organizations -- the American Accounting Association and the American
Institute of Certified Public Accountants -- will support the effort to
carry out the report's recommendations, and they are finalizing a strategy
for conducting this effort.
But don't hold your breath for much progress in changing academic accounting
research. Without a monumental shift in the reward structure of academic
researchers and complete re-designs of Ph.D. programs it will be same old, same
old for generations to come.
Plenary Session Video:
Building Bridges from the Academy to the Business Community
Stanford University Professor Charles M. C. Lee
American Accounting Association 2015 Annual Meetings
http://commons.aaahq.org/posts/79da0665ee
I suspect this video is available only to subscribers to the AAA Commons that is
free only to members of the American Accounting Association
Jensen Comment
Actually this video is quite good about how academic accounting researchers
should get closer to the real-world profession, a profession that he defines
more broadly than the accounting profession. Much of the video is focused on the
the profession of finance and its real world decision makers.
The best quote in the video is a borrowed quote from Mark Wolfson.
"Risky research is doing research that everybody else is doing."
To this I might add "using tools, like some variation of regression research,
that everybody else is using."|
To this I might add is "using purchased databases that everybody else is doing."
My limited study of this is that over 90% of the recent research in The
Accounting Review entails using purchased databases that enable the accounting
researcher to avoid having to creatively invent ways of collecting data. ---
"A Scrapbook on What's Wrong with the Past, Present and Future of Accountics
Science"
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsWorkingPaper450.06.pdf
In his presentation Professor Lee shows a hilarious clip of accounting
workers from the Broadway Play The Producers ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Producers_(musical)
In the presentation reference is made to the book Escape from the Ivory
Tower by Nancy Baron ---
http://www.escapefromtheivorytower.com/
One thing that Professor Lee failed to stress is that replication is a
necessary condition for relevancy of scientific research findings. In the case
of accountics science replication is such a rare event that we have to question
the relevancy of nearly all the research findings ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTar.htm
"Why Free Markets Make Fools of Us," by Cass R. Sunstein,
nybooks.com, October 22, 2015 ---
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/oct/22/why-free-markets-make-fools-us/
This is a very positive review of the following book by two
Nobel economists:
by George A. Akerlof and Robert J.
Shiller
Princeton University Press, 272 pp.,
$24.95
Jensen Comment
The book is a cheerleading book for government regulation. In this regard the
following negative review I found on Amazon seems somewhat relevant:
This book consumed five hours of my
life that I’ll never get back. I think these two respected academics are
reputation-mining with this mediocre offering. I’ve just been Phished for a
Phool! I found the basic concept interesting and potentially
entertaining—that the free market incentivizes cheating in unique ways. But
the execution made an inherently entertaining story boring and obvious. Some
of the examples which are discussed in detail are painfully obvious and
without nuance—Advertising isn’t always true (Say it isn’t so!!),
transaction costs in real estate deals are more than they should be (Whaaaaaaatt?!?!),
and car salesman are shysters (NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!). As one of the other
reviews pointed out, this book functions more as an advertisement for a
certain political position than a convincing argument or an entertaining
read. There are good arguments to be made in favor of financial reform, and
the book touches briefly on some of these—chief among them the idea that
information asymmetry and conflicts of interest in the markets for complex
securities make informed choice impossible. But the authors constantly
return to the supposition that people don’t know what is really good for
them and need someone else to coerce them into doing what is “best.” That’s
going to be a tough sell, and I doubt that many people are buying.
I will probably buy it, skim it, and use it as an aid if I have
trouble sleeping. Apparently the book has many illustrations --- I think I will
like that aspect of it to help me stay awake while reading the book.
Bob Jensen
Training versus Education
Novelist Marilynne Robinson warns Stanford audience against utilitarian
trends in higher education ---
http://lisnews.org/node/43835/
Bob Jensen's threads on higher education
controversies ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/higHerEdControversies.htm
Question
What does the scholarly magazine called The Economist claim is the top
career choice on average in terms of salaries ten years down the road?
Answer
http://www.businessinsider.com/highest-salaries-10-years-after-entering-college-2015-10
Jensen Comment
Personally I'm still in favor of accounting for a career choice because of the
varied opportunities down the road. Entry-level jobs with great training and
experience are readily available. The reason I prefer accounting is that there
are so many varied career tracks in public accounting, business, and government.
Also accounting is one of the best tracks toward top management and highest
paying professorships ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob1.htm#careers
There is such a dire shortage of accounting professors, accounting Ph.D.
programs are free in terms of tuition, living expenses, and other perks.
Of course the world needs more of a lot of
specialists including teachers, doctors, nurses, many types of scientists,
engineers, etc. There are usually advantages and disadvantages to any type of
career.
From the Chronicle of Higher Education
Search for Job Openings in Higher Education ---
https://chroniclevitae.com/job_search/new
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptomania
Kleptomania: The History of Shoplifting ---
http://daily.jstor.org/kleptomania-history-shoplifting/
Intuition ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuition
Daniel Kahneman ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kahneman
Kahneman on Intuition and the Outside View
by Elliot Turner, October 20, 2015 ---
http://compoundingmyinterests.com/compounding-the-blog/2015/10/20/daniel-kahneman-on-intuition-and-the-outside-view
I had the privilege of
attending another Santa Fe Institute “Risk Conference” at Morgan Stanley.
There was a stellar lineup of accomplished speakers focusing on
Old Wine in New Bottles: Big Data in Markets and Finance.
The grand finale was “A Conversation with Daniel
Kahneman” led by Michael Mauboussin. These two gentlemen are amongst the
finest thinkers in finance and two of the most important influences in my
effort to compound knowledge while remaining cognizant of my limitations. As
Mauboussin is intimately familiar with the subject matter, he was the
perfect person to elicit the deepest insights from Kahneman on the most
important topics. Below are my notes, which are reproduced here in the form
of a dialogue. When I started jotting these down in real-time, I had no
visions of writing the conversation up in this form; however, I found myself
writing an awful lot with the output resembling an actual transcript. I
attempted to be as thorough as possible in keeping the language as
consistent with the spirit of the spoken dialogue as possible, though this
is hardly perfect. I apologize in advance for the lack of completeness and
the tense shifts, but nonetheless I am delighted to share the following in
hope that others will be able to learn as much from this conversation as I
did.
Michael Mauboussin:
When does intuition work or fail?
Daniel Kahneman: Intuition
works less often than we think. There is no such thing as professional
“expertise.” The Intuitions in chess masters develop with “big data” comes
from experience. For people, the immediacy of feedback is especially
important to learn the basis of expertise. When feedback comes closer in
time to the decision, intuition tends to be a lot stronger. Gary Klein,
author of The Sources of Power is hostile to Kahneman’s view. Together they
studied the boundary between trustworthy and untrustworthy sources of
intuition. Confidence of intuition is NOT a good guide of intuition. If you
want to explore intuition, you have to ask “not how happy the individual is”
but what domain they are working in. There are some domains where intuition
works, and some domains where it does not. You need to ask “did the
individual have an opportunity to learn irregularities on the way to
building intuition? In domains where a lot of people have equal degrees of
high confidence, they often do not know the limits of their expertise.
Mauboussin: People
blend quantitative and qualitative intuition, but what about disciplined
intuition? Is there a better structure to decision-making?
Kahneman: When you put
human judgment against simple models, after reading
Paul Meehl’s book which showed where the human has
access to all of the data behind the model, the model still wins in making
decisions. There are no confirmed counter-examples. Studied an interviewing
system for combat units. Asked multiple interviewers to speak with each
candidate with a focus on one topic only per subject. Previously the
interviewers had experienced a looser system without restriction—one
interviewer per subject, with a broad focus. Unfortunately the previous
system had zero predictive value on subsequent performance. At first, when
the interviewers were instructed on a “disciplined” focus/topical breakdown,
they were furious. People like using their broad intuitions. The
interviewers were given a rating scale of 1 to 5 in each area they were
assigned to cover. Eventually we got the data on how performance turned out
based on the revised interview process. It turned out that interviews done
in this way had much better predictive value for subsequent performance.
The problem with intuitions
is how they come too fast. They are subject to confirmation biases. If you
look at just one thing independent of all else and reserve judgment until
the very end, what ultimately comes to mind will be more valid than if you
don’t have discipline. It’s important to stress the independence (focus on 1
topic) to resist and overcome associative coherence—aka the halo effect.
Mauboussin: Define
regression to the mean and the problems with it (causality, feedback)?
Kahneman: Regression is a
familiar concept, but not well understood. We see articles like “Why do
smart women marry men less smart than they are?” That is an effect without a
cause. We can reformulate that question to say that “the distribution of
intelligence in men and women is the same” but the sound/implication of the
two statements is not equivalent. You have to rid yourself of causation in
making such statements. There was a study of the incidence of kidney cancer
which described it as mostly rural, Republican districts in the center and
south of the USA. Why? Everyone has a theory. But, if you look at the areas
where incidence is small, it’s the same answer—mostly rural, Republican
districts in the center and south of the USA. This is so because the rural
counties have smaller samples (a lower “n”) so incidences of high and low
are more pronounced.
Mauboussin: Talk
about the inside vs outside view, and base rates…
Kahneman: Was involved in
writing a textbook on decision-making without math for a high school
curriculum. Asked the team: “when will we finish the book?” Everyone
answered somewhere between 18 and 30 months. Asked another colleague how
long it took to write other textbooks in similar situations. This
colleague’s answer had been somewhere in the 18 to 30 month range. The
answer: 1) not all textbooks ever finished, with somewhere around 40% of
them having given up; and, 2) those that were completed all took more than 7
years.
There are two different ways
to look at a problem: 1) make an estimate based on a plan and reasonable
extrapolation of progress—the inside view. 2) Abstract to the category of
the case and ask “what are its characteristics”—the outside view. Intuition
prefers the inside view, while the outside view is non-causal and
statistical. If you start your analysis from the outside view, with a known
base rate, it gives you a fair anchor and ballpark from which to work
Continued in article
Question
Does anybody else see the irony of this article on Day 911
of the IRS Scandal --- I mean the number 911 that is the universal
emergency help phone number in the USA?
"The IRS Scandal, Day 911," by Paul
Caron, TaxProf Blog, November 6, 2015 ---
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2015/11/the-irs-scandal-day-911.html
Washington Post op-ed:
The Supreme Court’s Opportunity to Tackle Sinister Trends, by George
Will:
The
IRS scandal — the denial of essential tax-exempt
status to conservative advocacy groups, thereby effectively suppressing the
groups’ activities — demonstrates this: When government is empowered to
regulate advocacy, it will be tempted to suppress some of it. And sometimes
government will think like Oscar Wilde: “The only way to get rid of
temptation is to yield to it.”
These truths should be on the Supreme Court’s nine fine minds on Friday when
they consider whether to hear a challenge to a lower court’s decision that
disregards some clear Supreme Court pronouncements pertaining to the First
Amendment. The amendment says there shall be no laws abridging freedom of
speech, but various governments are persistently trying to regulate, and
perhaps chill, advocacy. The most recent wrinkle in this disreputable
project comes from California.
Continued in article
There should not be protests on this campus
since administrators have heavier loads
Ryerson U students reveal that administrators'
bathrooms feature two-ply, while everyone else has one-ply
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/02/student-newspaper-reveals-inequitable-toilet-paper-distribution?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=a93b96438a-DNU20151102&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-a93b96438a-197565045
Jensen Question
Did one of the administrators leak this?
But these are grounds for a class action lawsuit
Tort lawyers prosper by rounding up potentially injured
plaintiffs in class actions, and sometimes the plaintiffs don’t even have to be
injured to qualify. On Monday the Supreme Court will consider whether the trial
bar can put together class actions seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in
damages without showing that anyone was harmed.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/inventing-class-actions-1446416470?mod=djemMER
Only those who
will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T.S. Eliot
Northwestern's Kellogg School of
Management Accused of Letting Students Cheat
"Northwestern's business school is being rocked by cheating allegations,"
by Abbie Jackson, Business Insider, November 6, 2015 ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/cheating-scandal-at-northwesterns-kellogg-school-2015-11
Students at
Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management have claimed that six peers
blatantly cheated on a final and that the administration is trying to cover
it up, according to a detailed
article by Ethan Baron of Poets and Quants, which
covers business schools.
Six male students in the MS
in Management Studies program engaged in blatant cheating while taking their
account and statistics finals, Baron reported, citing three students who
spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The anonymous sources
claimed that the students were passing notes, drawing charts in the air, and
sharing answers on their exams when proctors left the room.
The three anonymous students
claim the
administration is complicit in the cheating because it doesn't want the
school's reputation ruined.
"Everybody in the class
knows what is happening and everyone in the class knows that the sole goal
of the administration is to silence the witnesses," one source told Baron.
The students also say that
they fear retribution from the school over discussing the cheating
allegations because the honor code forbids students from discussing possible
violations of the honor code.
The witnesses also
claim that they have been threatened over the phone with physical harm by
the cheaters, Baron reports.
"The day I come to know who
reported me, I will f------ kill him or her,” one of the cheaters pledged,
according to a witness.
Of the six students accused
of cheating, two told Poets and Quants that they did not cheat, two would
not address the allegations against them, and two did not speak to the news
publication.
Poets and Quants got an
email response from Kellogg saying that it takes any cheating allegations
seriously and "all Honor Code issues that are reported are investigated
thoroughly and, if necessary and appropriate, include hearings and
sanctions."
Continued in article
Bob Jensen's threads on professors who let
students cheat ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Plagiarism.htm#RebeccaHoward
TurnItIn ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnitin
"My Love-Hate Relationship With TurnItIn," by Marcattilio-McCracken,
Chronicle of Higher Education, September 8, 2015 ---
http://chronicle.com/article/My-Love-Hate-Relationship-With/232887?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en&elq=cca0be2e8e9f422b8d0fef0b6b59ade2&elqCampaignId=1688&elqaid=6679&elqat=1&elqTrackId=aa1feb0121b04d14aea0071dff824358
Jensen Comment
TurnItIn is a lot like medications that are essential for some ailments even
though the side effects are troublesome. I say "essential" because in this era
of cut-and-paste technology plagiarism is rampant at all levels of academe, even
in commencement speeches by college presidents. Hoping for a wonder medication
with no side effects is wishful thinking. Either you accept the risks and take
the medication or you suffer greater risks of the ailment itself. For example,
if you had a heart attack you can either take a low-cost aspirin tablet daily
with some increased risk of internal bleeding or you can accept greater risk of
having a second heart attack.
Some of the comments following this article absurdly paranoid in my opinion.
Having been a victim of plagiarized submissions in my courses I'm all for
plagiarism detection technology. Before the days of TurnItIn I detected
plagiarism in an inefficient manner by searching for phrases in Google
searchers. This worked because some of my plagiarist students used Google
searchers while searching for articles they could plagiarize. I think plagiarism
declined in my courses after students learned that I really did use tools to
detect plagiarism. Of course Google searches are not nearly as powerful as
TurnItIn.
Note that most top research journals are using some form of plagiarism
detection --- mostly with the intent of discouraging plagiarism in submissions.
For example, it becomes harder for professors to lift from the writings of their
students.
Bob Jensen's threads on plagiarism are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Plagiarism.htm
MIT: Recommended from Around the Web (Week ending
October 31, 2015) ---
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/543016/recommended-from-around-the-web-week-ending-october-31-2015/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20151030
MIT: Seven Must-Read Stories (Week ending October 24,
2015) ---
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/542681/seven-must-read-stories-week-ending-october-24-2015/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-weekly-business&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20151030
MIT: Seven Must-Read Stories (Week ending October 31,
2015) ---
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/543026/seven-must-read-stories-week-ending-october-31-2015/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20151102
MIT: Seven Must-Read Stories (Week ending November 7,
2015) ---
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/543206/recommended-from-around-the-web-week-ending-november-7-2015/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20151109
MIT: Seven Must-Read Stories (Week ending November 7,
2015) ---
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/543211/seven-must-read-stories-week-ending-november-7-2015/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20151109
MIT: Recommended Robot and AI Reads for the Week Ended
November 5, 2015 ---
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/543176/recommended-robot-and-ai-reads-this-week/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20151104
---
MIT: Recommended Computing Reads for the Week Ended
November 11. 2015 ---
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/543366/recommended-computing-reads-this-week/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20151111
MIT: Recommended Robot and AI Reads for the Week
Ended November 11. 2015 ---
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/543371/recommended-robot-and-ai-reads-this-week/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20151111
"Don’t Blame Encryption for ISIS Attacks," by Tom
Simonite, MIT's Technology Review, November 16, 2015 ---
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/543566/dont-blame-encryption-for-isis-attacks/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20151117
This Building Acts as Its Own Air Conditioner (a hotel that
generates all of its own electricity) ---
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/this-building-acts-as-its-own-air-conditioner/ar-BBmHhR1?ocid=spartandhp
Jensen Comment
It's not clear how efficient this building is in the dark of windless night or
whether it has to be connected to the grid for supplemental power.
Ubiquitous computing ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquitous_computing
MIT: The Power of Ubiquitous Computing
"Humans and Computers Are Getting Even More Connected." by Brian
Bergstein, MIT's Technology Review, November 2, 2015 ---
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/543106/humans-and-computers-are-getting-even-more-connected/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20151103
The implications of pervasive or
ubiquitous computing are still only beginning to be apparent.
What do we
want from the smart machines pervading our world—and what do they want from
us?
That question framed this morning’s opening of the
EmTech conference at MIT, and it’s a useful way to
think about where computing is heading.
As
MIT Technology Review’s
editor-in-chief, Jason Pontin, said in beginning the show, breakthroughs in
computer science have made it possible for machines to understand more of
the data that our devices and sensors collect “in ways that elude human
perception.” As we become ever more reliant on these devices and their
software, the companies that capture our data develop a competitive
advantage over those that don’t. And in turn, the companies’ need for data
collection and the ability of machines to influence our behavior “creates a
kind of intimacy between the human and the digital” that makes automated
systems even more powerful.
“We know
that there is enormous utility in embracing machines that are smart and
powerful enough to become part of who we are,” Pontin said. “They have
extended our capabilities and enlarged our sense of what it means to be
human. But we need to be conscious of what we want from these smart
machines, our new intimates. Because sometimes, they are not solely loyal to
our interests.”
We’ll explore these issues through Wednesday at EmTech.
For more on these ideas and the technologies driving them forward, see
“Teaching Machines to Understand Us,”
“How Technology Is Destroying Jobs,” and
“The Real Privacy Problem.”
Bob Jensen's sadly neglected threads on ubiquitous
computing ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ubiquit.htm
Exterminating the Campus of Those Dreaded Conservatives
"Academia’s Rejection of Diversity," by Arthur C. Brooks, The New York Times,
October 30, 2015 ---
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/31/opinion/academias-rejection-of-diversity.html?_r=1
ONE of the great intellectual and moral epiphanies
of our time is the realization that human diversity is a blessing. It has
become conventional wisdom that being around those unlike ourselves makes us
better people — and more productive to boot.
Unfortunately, new research also shows that
academia has itself stopped short in both the understanding and practice of
true diversity — the diversity of ideas — and that the problem is taking a
toll on the quality and accuracy of scholarly work. This year, a team of
scholars from six universities studying ideological diversity in the
behavioral sciences published a paper in the journal Behavioral and Brain
Sciences that details a shocking level of political groupthink in academia.
The authors show that for every politically conservative social psychologist
in academia there are about 14 liberal social psychologists.
This has consequences well beyond fairness. It
damages accuracy and quality. As the authors write, “Increased political
diversity would improve social psychological science by reducing the impact
of bias mechanisms such as confirmation bias, and by empowering dissenting
minorities to improve the quality of the majority’s thinking.”
One of the study’s authors, Philip E. Tetlock of
the University of Pennsylvania, put it to me more bluntly. Expecting
trustworthy results on politically charged topics from an “ideologically
incestuous community,” he explained, is “downright delusional.”
Are untrustworthy academic findings
really a problem? In a few high-profile cases, most definitely. Take, for
example, Prof. Diederik Stapel of Tilburg University in the Netherlands, who
in 2011 faked experiments to show, among other things, that eating meat made
people selfish. (He later said that his work was “a quest for aesthetics,
for beauty — instead of the truth”).
Continued in article
Jensen Comment
One of the things I note after extensive reading of student comments on
www.RateMyProfessors.com is that liberal faculty are more apt to bring
some topics inappropriately into the classroom. For example, it is extremely
common to bring feminist activism into courses like mathematics and science
where there are dubious justifications for feminist activism. But across the
board it seems that faculty tend not to hide their political biases in most any
disciplines. However, it also seems that more often than not students shrug off
these biases. Their political leanings were mostly determined before going to
college and were probably more heavily influenced by parents and peers.
"Moving Further to the Left," by Scott
Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed, October 24, 2012 ---
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/10/24/survey-finds-professors-already-liberal-have-moved-further-left
Academics, on average, lean
to the left. A survey being released today suggests that they are moving
even more in that direction.
Among full-time faculty members at four-year
colleges and universities, the percentage identifying as "far left" or
liberal has increased notably in the last three years, while the percentage
identifying in three other political categories has declined. The data come
from the University of California at Los Angeles Higher Education Research
Institute, which surveys faculty members nationwide every three years on a
range of attitudes.
Here are the data for the new survey and
the prior survey:
|
2010-11 |
2007-8 |
Far left |
12.4% |
8.8% |
Liberal |
50.3% |
47.0% |
Middle of the road |
25.4% |
28.4% |
Conservative |
11.5% |
15.2% |
Far right |
0.4% |
0.7% |
Gauging how gradual or abrupt this shift is
complicated because of changes in the UCLA survey's methodology; before
2007-8, the survey included community college faculty members, who have been
excluded since. But for those years, examining only four-year college and
university faculty members, the numbers are similar to those of 2007-8.
Going back further, one can see an evolution away from the center.
In the 1998-9 survey, more than 35 percent of
faculty members identified themselves as middle of the road, and less than
half (47.5 percent) identified as liberal or far left. In the new data, 62.7
percent identify as liberal or far left. (Most surveys that have included
community college faculty members have found them to inhabit political space
to the right of faculty members at four-year institutions.)
The new data differ from some recent studies by
groups other than the UCLA center that have found that professors (while
more likely to lean left than right) in fact were
doing so from more of a centrist position.
A major study in 2007, for example, found that
professors were more likely to be centrist than liberal, and that many on
the left identified themselves as "slightly liberal." (That study and the
new one use different scales, making exact comparisons impossible.)
In looking at the new data, there is notable
variation by sector. Private research universities are the most left-leaning,
with 16.2 percent of faculty members identifying as far left, and 0.1
percent as far right. (If one combines far left and liberal, however,
private, four-year, non-religious colleges top private universities, 58.6
percent to 57.7 percent.) The largest conservative contingent can be found
at religious, non-Roman Catholic four-year colleges, where 23.0 percent
identify as conservative and another 0.6 percent say that they are far
right.
Professors' Political Identification,
2010-11, by Sector
|
Far left |
Liberal |
Middle of the Road |
Conservative |
Far right |
Public universities |
13.3% |
52.4% |
24.7% |
9.2% |
0.3% |
Private universities |
16.2% |
51.5% |
22.3% |
9.8% |
0.1% |
Public, 4-year colleges |
8.8% |
47.1% |
28.7% |
14.7% |
0.7% |
Private, 4-year, nonsectarian |
14.0% |
54.6% |
22.6% |
8.6% |
0.3% |
Private, 4-year, Catholic |
7.8% |
48.0% |
30.7% |
13.3% |
0.3% |
Private, 4-year, other religious |
7.4% |
40.0% |
29.1% |
23.0% |
0.6% |
The study found some differences by gender, with
women further to the left than men. Among women, 12.6 percent identified as
far left and 54.9 percent as liberal. Among men, the figures were 12.2
percent and 47.2 percent, respectively.
When it comes to the three tenure-track ranks,
assistant professors were the most likely to be far left, but full
professors were more likely than others to be liberal.
Professors' Political Identification,
2010-11, by Tenure Rank
|
Far left |
Liberal |
Middle of the Road |
Conservative |
Far right |
Full professors |
11.8% |
54.9% |
23.4% |
9.7% |
0.2% |
Associate professors |
13.8% |
50.4% |
24.0% |
11.5% |
0.4% |
Assistant professors |
13.9% |
48.7% |
25.9% |
11.2% |
0.4% |
So what do these data mean?
Sylvia Hurtado, professor of education at UCLA and
director of the Higher Education Research Institute, said that she didn't
know what to make of the surge to the left by faculty members. She said that
she suspects age may be a factor, as the full-time professoriate is aging,
but said that this is just a theory. Hurtado said that these figures always
attract a lot of attention, but she thinks that the emphasis may be
misplaced because of a series of studies showing no evidence that left-leaning
faculty members are somehow shifting the views of their students or
enforcing any kind of political requirement.
Continued in article
"Noam Chomsky Spells Out the Purpose of Education," by Josh Jones,
Open Culture, November 2012 ---
http://www.openculture.com/2012/11/noam_chomsky_spells_out_the_purpose_of_education.html
Jensen Comment
Actually the conservatives left on campus are the quants (in accounting we
call them accountics scientists) who devoted their lives to conducting
research on the capital markets, especially stocks, bonds, commodities, and
derivatives. They are among the highest paid faculty and write in equations
the rest of the faculty and students on campus cannot comprehend.
Some quants are critical of capital markets but most are simply trying to
better understand markets and justify what they do as trying to make markets
more efficient in allocation of capital and other resources to enterprises.
I will leave it up to Jagdish to tabulate the results, but conservative
economists have probably had more than their fair share of Nobel prizes in
economics.
Only ignorant academics accuse conservatives on campus of being ignorant.
I have not looked for proof, but I suspect that conservatives almost totally
dominate the doctoral programs in accountancy. They are usually arrogant and
make virtually no effort to communicate with anybody but themselves and
their quant students. The reason they make little effort to enter into
conservatism versus liberalism debates is that these few remaining
conservatives are so badly outnumbered.
Bob Jensen
Bob Jensen's threads on the liberal biases of higher
education ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/higHerEdControversies.htm#LiberalBias
"Court: Harris-Stowe State U Owes $4.85 Million to White
Former Professor," Chronicle of Higher Education, November 4, 2015
---
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/11/04/court-harris-stowe-state-u-owes-485-million-white-former-professor?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=413ea4fde2-DNU20151103&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-413ea4fde2-197565045
Harris-Stowe State University must pay a former
full-time education instructor $4.85 million in damages related to her
racial bias claims, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. A St. Louis
circuit court ruled that the historically black university discriminated
against Beverly Wilkins, who is white, when it fired her in 2010.
Wilkins said one administrator in particular,
Latisha Smith, a former dean and department head, failed to follow a
reduction in force policy in pegging her for termination over several other
black faculty members. The lawsuit alleges that Smith purged the department
of all white faculty members, except one protected by tenure, and that she
covered up her bias by deleting incriminating emails. Smith blamed budget
cuts for Wilkins’s termination, but continued to hire additional faculty
members -- including two to cover Wilkins’s classes, who together were paid
more than her salary -- Michael Meyers, her lawyer, told the Dispatch.
Continued in article
University ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University
By the 18th
century, universities published their own
research journals and by the 19th century, the
German and the French university models had arisen. The German, or
Humboldtian model, was conceived by
Wilhelm von Humboldt and based on
Friedrich Schleiermacher's liberal ideas
pertaining to the importance of
freedom,
seminars, and
laboratories in universities.
The French university model involved strict discipline
and control over every aspect of the university.
Continued in article
The Emergence of the American University (University of
Chicago Press, 1965, 520 pages) ---
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo3615297.html
"Meet the Man Who Wrote the Greatest (History) Book About
American Higher Ed," by Kevin Carey, Chronicle of Higher Education,
October 29, 2015 ---
http://chronicle.com/article/Meet-the-Man-Who-Wrote-the/233966?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elq=a0819acdf0b24115b1da20506a78ccb0&elqCampaignId=1724&elqaid=6726&elqat=1&elqTrackId=c10085c3b2d24f50b232170e8b843bbf
The old man sat naked and alone, the Pacific Ocean
a few feet away. His skin was nut-brown, covered with diamond-shaped tattoos
running down his left arm, shoulder, and torso. His nipples were pierced,
long white beard a tangle, legs and feet caked with dirt. At the moment the
camera shutter snapped, he smiled and remembered a Thomas Eakins portrait of
Walt Whitman, another American wild and unafraid.
He owned a single piece of clothing, a filthy pair
of denim shorts, which he wore reluctantly when he did his shopping at the
Safeway or stopped at a roadside stand for rum-raisin ice cream. He would
occasionally walk to the Instant Printing Company to send other train
enthusiasts copies of a long, meticulously detailed catalog he had compiled
of VHS videotapes featuring vintage streetcars. Most days he could be found
on a flat pile of rocks a short hike from town, among the sugar-cane fields
at the foot of the West Maui Forest Reserve, reading Victorian novels and
baking nude in the sun.
To the locals in the Hawaiian town of Lahaina,
Larry Veysey was just another eccentric washed up in paradise, good for a
smile and nod but not much conversation. Visitors came occasionally to his
condominium by the beach, fellow nudists mostly, or a few friends from
another time. Nobody knew that this resting place was the end of a journey
that had begun with death and tragedy in a different sort of utopia, gone
east to rare heights of scholarship in the Ivy League, and returned to the
redwood forests of California, where he was liberated, or driven mad, or
both, by the cultural convulsions of the 20th century.
Or that 50 years ago, he produced what is arguably
the greatest book ever written about the American university.
Continued in article
Jensen Comment
When I was invited to do a 2001 gig at Humboldt University in Berlin it was
claimed that this was the first university on earth. Whereas older institutions
like Oxford were collections of autonomous colleges the concept of a university
evolved with integrated curricula and integrated administration.
‘Do You Miss Being a Professor?’
https://chroniclevitae.com/news/1179-do-you-miss-being-a-professor?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elq=a0819acdf0b24115b1da20506a78ccb0&elqCampaignId=1724&elqaid=6726&elqat=1&elqTrackId=13ee97e464d54cdda455c5184f35981f
Jensen Comment
When asked this question I say yes, although I miss being a professor in the
1970s more than being a professor in the early part of the 21st Century. I
retired in 2006 after 40 years of being a faculty member at four universities.
What I liked less and less over the years was students' increasing
obsession with grades. In the 1970s a C was an average grade for undergraduates,
and students tended not to fight tooth and nail about their grades with their
instructors. Over the ensuing decades grades increasingly became keys to the
kingdom for students in terms of both employment and admission to graduate
school. In 1970 a student with a 2.9 gpa could interview with a large accounting
firm and obtain a job offer. By 1990 the big accounting firms were not willing
to interview most students with less than 3.25 gpa records.
American Universities experienced highly dysfunctional grade
inflation that commenced for various reasons in the latter part of the 20th
Century. However, studies point to the main reason for grade inflation as the
power given to teaching evaluations of students who commenced to heavily
determine the tenure and performance evaluation prospects of their teachers. In
the 1940s the average grade at Harvard was a C. By 1990 the average grade at
Harvard was an A with over 80% of the students graduating cum laude. A C
grade became a failing grade at Harvard and virtually every other American
University. A famous professor at Harvard gives out two grades at Harvard. One
is the A grade for the transcript. The other is a secret grade given to the
student in an envelope revealing what the student actually earned in the
judgment of the professor who taught the course ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm#RateMyProfessor
With the student power over tenure and performance evaluations
came a watering down of courses. Note how the top 25 professors on
RateMyProfessors score on easiness of their courses ---
http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/blog/toplist/top-professors-of-2014-2015
Also read the student evaluations regarding difficulty of their courses.
While the lawsuits mount
Across 20 Years of Fake Courses and Athlete Grade Changing Scandals at the
University of North Carolina
"What Was Jan Boxill Thinking? 3 Gems From Her Inbox," by Andy Thomason,
Chronicle of Higher Education, October 27, 2015 ---
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/what-was-jan-boxill-thinking-3-gems-from-her-inbox/106098?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en&elq=54903d1d11d04fcbb1d0fd5284e039f4&elqCampaignId=1707&elqaid=6699&elqat=1&elqTrackId=4f6244591d494ee4b72c694f930fe1b9
To many in academe, the most intriguing question
following last year’s bombshell report of widespread academic fraud at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was not “How could this happen?”
but, instead, “What was Jan Boxill thinking?”
Ms. Boxill, an ethicist and former chair of the
Chapel Hill faculty, was found to have been a willing participant in the
fake-classes scheme, conspiring to manufacture grades in order to keep
athletes eligible to compete when she was an academic counselor for the
players. Here’s a now-infamous example of Ms. Boxill trading emails with the
mastermind of the scheme, the former manager of the department of African
and Afro-American studies, Deborah Crowder:
Continued in article
Bob Jensen's threads on 20 Years of Fake Courses and Athlete
Grade Changing Scandal and UNC ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Plagiarism.htm#RebeccaHoward
"NY Times: A Majority Of Law
Schools Are Scamming Students And Taxpayers," by Paul Caron, TaxProf Blog,
October 255, 2015 ---
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2015/10/ny-times-a-majority-of-law-schools-admit-unqualified-students-charge-outrageously-high-tuition-and-s.html
American law schools are increasingly charging outrageously high tuition
and sticking taxpayers with the tab for loan defaults when students fail to
become lawyers.
In 2013, the median LSAT score of students admitted to
Florida Coastal School of Law was in the
bottom quarter of all test-takers nationwide.
According to the test’s administrators, students with scores this low are
unlikely to ever pass the bar exam.
Despite this bleak outlook, Florida Coastal charges
nearly $45,000 a year in tuition, which, with living expenses, can lead to
crushing amounts of debt for its students. Ninety-three percent of the
school’s 2014 graduating class of 484 had debts and the average was
almost $163,000 — a higher average than all but
three law schools in the country. In short, most of Florida Coastal’s
students are leaving law school with a degree they can’t use, bought with a
debt they can’t repay.
If this sounds like a scam, that’s because it is. Florida Coastal, in
Jacksonville, is one of six for-profit law schools in the country that have
been vacuuming up hordes of young people, charging them outrageously high
tuition and, after many of the students fail to become lawyers, sticking
taxpayers with the tab for their loan defaults.
Yet for-profit schools are not the only offenders. A majority of American
law schools, which have nonprofit status, are increasingly engaging in such
behavior, and in the process threatening the future of legal education.
Why? The most significant explanation is also the simplest — free money.
In 2006, Congress extended the federal Direct PLUS Loan program to allow a
graduate or professional student to borrow the full amount of tuition, no
matter how high, and living expenses. The idea was to give more people
access to higher education and thus, in theory, higher lifetime earnings.
But broader access doesn’t mean much if degrees lead not to well-paying jobs
but to heavy debt burdens. That is all too often the result with PLUS loans.
The consequences of this free flow of federal loans have been entirely
predictable: Law schools jacked up tuition and accepted more students, even
after the legal job market stalled and shrank in the wake of the recession.
For years, law schools were able to obscure the poor market by refusing to
publish meaningful employment information about their graduates. But in
response to pressure from skeptical lawmakers and unhappy graduates, the
schools began sharing the data — and it wasn’t a pretty picture. Forty-three
percent of all 2013 law school graduates did not have long-term full-time
legal jobs nine months after graduation, and the numbers are only getting
worse. In 2012, the average law graduate’s debt was $140,000, 59 percent
higher than eight years earlier.
This reality has contributed to the
drastic drop in law school applications since
2011, which has in turn
exacerbated the problem — to maintain enrollment
numbers, law schools have had to lower their admissions standards and take
even more unqualified students. These students then fail to pass the bar in
alarmingly high numbers — in 2014, the average score on the common portion
of the test
was the lowest in more than 25 years.
How can this death spiral be stopped? For starters,
the government must require accountability from the law schools that live
off student loans. This year, the Obama administration extended the
so-called
gainful employment rule, which ties a school’s
eligibility to receive federal student loans to its success in preparing
graduates for jobs that will enable them to repay their debt. The rule
currently applies only to for-profit law schools, all of which, given their
track records, would fail to qualify for federal loans
Continued in article
Bob Jensen's threads on the laments of law schools and their
students in the USA ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#OverstuffedLawSchools
Bob Jensen's
Fraud Updates ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
This one event in World Cup history perfectly
encapsulates the mass corruption of FIFA ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-2018-and-qatar-2022-world-cups-2015-10
Bob Jensen's
Fraud Updates ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
IRS Reveals USC Athletic Director Pat Haden's daughter paid $1,308 per
hour from the Foundation
Sun Times ---
http://national.suntimes.com/national-sports/7/72/2008165/pat-haden-daughter
An investigation into USC Athletic Director Pat
Haden found the Trojans’ top athletic figurehead collects roughly half a
million dollars annually for his roles outside of the athletic
department.The monetary benefits also extend to his daughter, Natalie Haden
O’Connor, who is on the George Henry Mayr Foundation board with Haden.IRS
filings obtained by the Los Angeles Times found O’Connor was paid roughly
$68,000 last year, with the foundation reporting she worked an average of
one hour a week.Haden was also listed as working an average of one hour a
week. He made $72,725 from the nonprofit last year.
Bob Jensen's
Fraud Updates ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
"Over half of psychology studies fail
reproducibility test." "Study delivers bleak verdict on validity of psychology
experiment results." "Psychology is a discipline in crisis."
"How to Fix Psychology’s Replication Crisis," by Brian D. Earp and Jim
A.C. Everett, Chronicle of Higher Education, October 25, 2015 ---
http://chronicle.com/article/How-to-Fix-Psychology-s/233857?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elq=ffdd5e32cd6c4add86ab025b68705a00&elqCampaignId=1697&elqaid=6688&elqat=1&elqTrackId=ffd568b276aa4a30804c90824e34b8d9
These and other similar headlines
followed the results of a large-scale initiative called the
Reproducibility Project, recently
published in Science magazine,
which appeared to show that a majority of findings from a
sample of 100 psychology studies did not hold up when
independent labs attempted to replicate them. (A similar
initiative is underway
in cancer biology and other
fields: Challenges with replication are
not unique to psychology.)
Headlines tend
to run a little hot. So the media’s dramatic response to the
Science paper was not entirely surprising given the
way these stories typically go. As it stands, though, it is
not at all clear what these replications mean. What the
experiments actually yielded in most cases was a different
statistical value or a smaller effect-size estimate compared
with the original studies, rather than positive evidence
against the existence of the underlying phenomenon.
This
is an important distinction. Although it would be nice if it
were otherwise, the data points we collect in psychology
don’t just hold up signs saying, "there’s an effect here" or
"there isn’t one." Instead, we have to make inferences based
on statistical estimates, and we should expect those
estimates to vary over time. In the typical scenario, an
initial estimate turns out to be on the high end (that’s why
it
ends up getting published in the
first place — it looks impressive), and then subsequent
estimates are a bit more down to earth.
. . .
To make the point a slightly different way: While
it is in everyone’s interest that high-quality, direct replications of key
studies in the field are conducted (so that we can know what degree of
confidence to place in previous findings), it is not typically in any
particular researcher’s interest to spend her time conducting such
replications.
As Huw Green, a Ph.D. student at the City
University of New York, recently put it, the "real crisis in psychology
isn’t that studies don’t replicate, but that we usually don’t even try."
What is needed is a "structural solution" —
something that has the power to resolve collective-action problems like the
one we’re describing. In simplest terms, if everyone is forced to cooperate
(by some kind of regulation), then no single individual will be at a
disadvantage compared to her peers for doing the right thing.
There are lots of ways of pulling this off — and we
don’t claim to have a perfect solution. But here is one idea.
As we proposed in a recent paper, graduate students in
psychology should be required to conduct, write up, and submit for
publication a high-quality replication attempt
of at least one key finding from the literature (ideally focusing on the
area of their doctoral research), as a condition of receiving their Ph.D.s.
Of course, editors
would need to agree to publish these kinds of submissions, and fortunately
there are a growing number — led by journals like PLoS ONE — that are
willing to do just that.
. . .
Since our
paper
was featured several weeks ago in
Nature, we’ve begun to get some constructive
feedback. As one psychologist wrote to us in an email
(paraphrased):
Your proposed
solution would only apply to some fields of psychology. It’s
not a big deal to ask students to do cheap replication
studies involving, say, pen-and-paper surveys — as is common
in social psychology. But to replicate an experiment
involving sensitive populations (babies, for instance, or
people with clinical disorders) or fancy equipment like an
fMRI machine, you would need a dedicated lab, a team of
experimenters, and several months of hard work — not to
mention the money to pay for all of this!
That much is
undoubtedly true. Expensive, time-consuming studies with
hard-to-recruit participants would not be replicated very
much if our proposal were taken up.
But that is
exactly the way things are now — so the problem would not be
made any worse. On the other hand, there are literally
thousands of studies that can be tested relatively cheaply,
at a skill level commensurate with a graduate student’s
training, which would benefit from being replicated. In
other words, having students perform replications as part of
their graduate work is very unlikely to make the problem of
not having enough replications any worse, but it has great
potential to help make it better.
Beyond
this, there is a pedagogical benefit. As Michael C. Frank
and Rebecca Saxe
have written: In their own
courses, they have found "that replicating cutting-edge
results is exciting and fun; it gives students the
opportunity to make real scientific contributions (provided
supervision is appropriate); and it provides object lessons
about the scientific process, the importance of reporting
standards, and the value of openness."
At the end of the day,
replication is indispensable.
It is a key part of the scientific enterprise; it helps us determine how
much confidence to place in published findings; and it will advance our
knowledge in the long run.
Continued in article
Jensen Comments
Accountics is the
mathematical science of values.
Charles Sprague [1887] as quoted by McMillan [1998, p. 1]
In accountics science I'm not aware of a single exacting replication of the
type discussed above of a published behavioral accounting research study.
Whether those findings constitute "truth" really does not matter much because
the practicing profession ignores accountics science behavior studies as
irrelevant and academics are only interested in the research methodologies
rather than the findings.
For example, years ago the FASB engaged Tom Dyckman and Bob Jensen to work
with the academic FASB member Bob Sprouse in evaluating research proposals to
study (with FASB funding) the post hoc impact of FAS 13 on the practicing
profession. In doing so the FASB said that both capital markets empiricism and
analytical research papers were acceptable but that the FASB had no interest in
behavioral studies. The implication was that behavioral studies were of little
interest too the FASB for various reasons, the main reason is that the tasks in
behavioral research were too artificial and removed from decision making in
real-world settings.
Interestingly both Tom and Bob had written doctoral theses that entailed
behavioral experiments in artificial settings. Tom used students as subjects,
and Bob used financial analysts doing, admittedly, artificial tasks. However,
neither Dyckman nor Jensen had much interest in subsequently conducting
behavioral experiments when they were professors. Of course in this FAS 13
engagement Dyckman and Jensen were only screening proposals submitted by other
researchers.
Accountics science research journals to my knowledge still will not publish
replications of behavioral experiments that only replicate and do not extend the
findings. Most like The Accounting Review, will not publish replications
of any kind. Accountics scientists have never
considered replication is indispensable at
the end of the day.
"The Results of the Reproducibility Project Are In. They’re Not Good,"
by Tom Bartlett, Chronicle of Higher Education, August 28, 2015 ---
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Results-of-the/232695/?cid=at
A decade ago, John P.A. Ioannidis published a
provocative and much-discussed paper arguing that
most published research findings are false. It’s
starting to look like he was right.
The
results
of the
Reproducibility Project are in, and the news is
not good. The goal of the project was to attempt to replicate findings in
100 studies from three leading psychology journals published in the year
2008. The very ambitious endeavor,
led by Brian Nosek, a
professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and executive director
of the
Center for Open Science, brought together more
than 270 researchers who tried to follow the same methods as the original
researchers — in essence, double-checking their work by painstakingly
re-creating it.
Turns out, only 39 percent of the studies withstood
that scrutiny.
Even Mr. Nosek, a self-described congenital
optimist, doesn’t try to put a happy spin on that number. He’s pleased that
the replicators were able to pull off the project, which began in 2011 and
involved innumerable software issues, language differences, logistical
challenges, and other assorted headaches. Now it’s done! That’s the upside.
Continued in article
Bob Jensen's threads on the lack of replication in accountics science in
general ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTar.htm
"Over half of psychology studies fail
reproducibility test." "Study delivers bleak verdict on validity of psychology
experiment results." "Psychology is a discipline in crisis."
"How to Fix Psychology’s Replication Crisis," by Brian D. Earp and Jim
A.C. Everett, Chronicle of Higher Education, October 25, 2015 ---
http://chronicle.com/article/How-to-Fix-Psychology-s/233857?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elq=ffdd5e32cd6c4add86ab025b68705a00&elqCampaignId=1697&elqaid=6688&elqat=1&elqTrackId=ffd568b276aa4a30804c90824e34b8d9
Journalism Should Also Be More Concerned
About Replication Issues
"The New York Times’ Nail Salons Series Was Filled with Misquotes and
Factual Errors. Here’s Why That Matters: Reporter Sarah Maslin Nir's
investigative series violated the standards of responsible journalism," by Jim
Epstein, Reason Magazine, October 27, 2015 ---
https://reason.com/blog/2015/10/27/new-york-times-nail-salon-unvarnished
Hollywood
Should Also Be More Concerned About Replication Issues
"The Atlantic: Truth: A Terrible, Terrible Movie About Journalism:
James Vanderbilt's directorial debut gets almost everything wrong about its
putative subject." Christopher Orr, The Atlantic, October 23, 2015 ---
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/10/truth-a-terrible-terrible-movie-about-journalism/412036/
Late in the movie Truth, the former 60 Minutes
Wednesday producer Mary Mapes (played by Cate Blanchett) offers a Big Speech
about the state of journalism, decrying the fact that all that people want
to read or watch on television these days is “conspiracy theories.” The
irony apparently lost on her (or at least on the writer-director James
Vanderbilt) is that she makes this charge while she herself is in the midst
of presenting a conspiracy theory.
The film concerns 60 Minutes’s 2004 pre-election
reporting on George W. Bush’s service in the Texas Air National Guard. Two
documents central to the news program’s contention that Bush was granted
preferential treatment were subsequently revealed to be almost certainly
fraudulent. This error ultimately resulted in the retirement from CBS of Dan
Rather (played here with likable understatement by Robert Redford) and the
firing of Mapes and others. It’s in the midst of her “conspiracy theory”
speech that Mapes suggests that the fraudulent documents were a cunning ploy
by pro-Bush forces—immaculately sophisticated in some respects, but
childishly certain to be recognized as fake in others—intended to discredit
further reporting into his military record. Could this be true? Stranger
things have happened, I suppose. But it’s pretty much the definition of a
conspiracy theory.
This is, alas, of a piece with Truth, one of the
worst films about journalism (and there have been plenty of bad ones) to
come down the pike in a long while. The movie loudly, hectoringly stresses
the importance of always “asking questions”—my notes include, among others,
the lines “Questions help us get to the truth,” “You stop asking questions,
that’s when the American people lose,” and “You’re supposed to question
everything, that’s your job”—and yet the very quality it celebrates in its
protagonist is that she never questions whether or not her reporting might
have been wrong. This is a film in which acknowledging error is treated as
some terrible surrender and betrayal of trust; in actual journalism, it’s
considered a moral obligation—one that, sadly, most people in the field have
had some experience with, in one capacity or another.
Continued in article
Bob Jensen's Fraud Updates ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Kickback (bribery) ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kickback
"U.S. Sen. Warren: ‘Kickbacks’ Create Conflicts for Annuity Sales Agents,"
by Leslie Scism, The Wall Street Journal, October 27, 2015 ---
http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-sen-warren-kickbacks-create-conflicts-for-annuity-sales-agents-1445961871?mod=djemCFO_h
Jensen Comment
I always thought that "kickback" was a form of bribery to non-employees such as
kickbacks to customers and government agents such as bribing a government agent
or paying or paying a customer's purchasing agent under the table to agree to
make a purchase. Kickbacks are common, albeit often illegal, when vendors pay
under-the-table to sell such things as military equipment and supplies to the
Pentagon. A common and illegal or unethical type of kickback arises when
pharmaceutical companies off free cruises and condos as incentives for
physicians to prescribe branded merchandise that is usually overpriced relative
to generic alternatives.
In this context, what Sen. Warren calls
"kickbacks" to employees really are just other forms of compensation such as
giving out prizes in lieu of cash bonuses to sales employees for outstanding
performances. Such prizes are taxable to employees and must be reported at fair
values to the IRS. There are some advantages to paying non-cash prizes such as
vacation hotel rooms. Employers can often negotiate lower prices for such prizes
due to such deals as volume discounts from hotel chains and block purchases of
cruise liner tickets. By "lower price" I mean less that an employee would pay
for such a prize if purchased separately out of a cash bonus. It'sis quite
traditional to give non-cash prizes to sales staff in most industries.
As long as this non-cash compensation is all
above board and satisfies IRS requirements I see nothing unethical or illegal
about it.
The risk lies more with incentives the employees have to act unethically when
selling products and services that are overpriced and/or inferior. However, such
risk is perhaps even greater if the compensation is in the form of cash bonuses
rather than non-cash prizes to employees.
Sometimes non-cash prizes become hedonistic with
lavish parties in luxury hotels where premium whiskey and wine encourages
inebriation while very expensive bands and singers perform, Sometimes things get
out of hand with added alternatives for prostitutes that are not likely to be
reported on W-2 forms. Perhaps Sen. Warren is being influenced by reported
hedonism of non-cash prizes to annuity sales agents.
When I bought various lifetime annuities from
TIAA I was not even offered a free lunch, and the TIAA representative was a
young mother who did not seem likely to be wanting lavish parties and
prostitutes.
"How a 40-Year-Old Idea Became Higher Education’s Next Big Thing," by Dan
Barrett, Chronicle of Higher Education, October 28, 2015 ---
http://chronicle.com/article/How-a-40-Year-Old-Idea-Became/233976
. . .
These pressures are intersecting with another
mounting concern: educational quality. Together, these forces are feeding an
unusual bipartisan consensus, and they are prompting higher-education
leaders to take a fresh look at an old idea:
competency-based education.
It allows students to make progress at their own pace by demonstrating what
they know and can do instead of hewing to the timeline of the semester.
While this model has long been used to expand access and lower costs,
particularly for adult students, it is now attracting attention as a way to
shore up academic rigor.
But this surge in interest has also sparked
questions. How effective a method is it for students with varying levels of
preparedness, or is it really only suited for the academically talented who
can learn on their own? Can it assure educational quality, or is it just
being offered to the disadvantaged as a cut-rate version of the full college
experience?
The story of how competency-based education has
become the latest Next Big Thing after being around for four decades is a
tale of timing,
of money and
politics, and of shifting academic norms.
Advocates for competency-based learning have seen
Big Things get hyped in the past, only to flame out. Still, they hope that
this model of learning can ultimately achieve a grand goal: staking a claim
to, defining, and substantiating quality in higher education.
Just maybe, the new stage of development that Mr.
Jessup envisioned decades ago may finally be arriving.
A generation or two
after Mr. Jessup’s prediction, a different sort of challenge confronted
higher education. The end of the Vietnam War and broadening opportunities
for women meant that adults who were older than the core demographic of 18-
to 21-year-olds were flocking to college. But with jobs and families, they
did not have the luxury of spending hours each week in a classroom.
Competency-based education as a concept began in
that era, the 1970s, with programs emerging to serve those older students.
Places like Excelsior College (then Regents College), Thomas Edison State
College, DePaul University’s School for New Learning, and the State
University of New York’s Empire State College were among the first to offer
such programs. They wanted to expand access.
Then, as state support for higher education dropped
and tuition and student-loan debt rose, so did concerns about cost.
Those two goals, access and cost, have dominated
years of efforts to remake higher education. Now, a third goal — educational
quality — is driving change.
Competency-based learning may be able to achieve
all three goals, say its supporters. And, they add, it is quality that
matters most. "Its potential is for a much higher level of quality and a
greater attention to rigor," says Alison Kadlec, senior vice president of
Public Agenda, a nonprofit organization that is playing a leading role in
the growth of this model.
"The worst possible outcome," she said, "would be
that competency-based education becomes a subprime form of learning."
Continued in article
Bob Jensen's threads on competency based learning ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Assess.htm#ConceptKnowledge
"What Bernie Sanders Doesn’t Understand About Germany’s Free College:
Why does America have higher attendance and graduation rates?" by Scott
Shackford|, Reason Magazine, October 22, 2015 ---
https://reason.com/blog/2015/10/22/what-bernie-sanders-doesnt-understand-ab
. . .
Instead, Sanders points to other, smaller countries
that have "free" college tuition (scare quotes
because obviously somebody's paying for it):
Finland, Denmark, Ireland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden,
and Mexico. He takes special note of Germany,
because even Americans can access their college
system:
For a token fee of about $200 per year, an
American can earn a degree in math or
engineering from one of the premier universities
in Europe. Governments in these countries
understand what an important investment they are
making, not just in the individuals who are able
to acquire knowledge and skills but for the
societies these students will serve as teachers,
architects, scientists, entrepreneurs and more.
Since Sanders left out any analysis of why college
is so expensive, it's worth exploring what exactly
Sanders has left out when he invokes Germany's
college system. Note that Sanders has said "A
college degree is the new high school diploma"? That
attitude is exactly backwards from how
Germany approaches higher education. Germany does
not have a work environment that demands a college
degree for every well-paying career. The
apprenticeship program that Sanders bemoans having
lost in America is well intact in Germany. Many
careers that require college degrees in America
do not require college degrees in Germany.
Even with the free tuition,
Germany actually has a lower college enrollment rate
than many other Western countries, including the
United States (check out World Bank data
here). Actually, America
has a higher rate of college enrollment than all of
the countries Sanders lists except for Finland.
Oh, also: America has a higher
college graduation rate
than Germany, too. And a greater percentage of young
Americans
have college degrees
compared to every country on Sanders' list except
for Norway and Ireland.
Instead, Germany has a very robust vocational
education track that partners businesses and the
government to provide apprenticeships, so the
government (and citizenry) is not paying the full
burden for the students' training, though Germany is
still covering classroom costs.
It is also a highly regulated,
centrally controlled, and very inflexible system
that probably won't fly in the United States. Tamar
Jacoby noted at
The Atlantic
when exploring Germany's apprenticeship program a
year ago:
What makes dual training
work, every manager told us, are the
standardized occupational profiles, or
curricula, developed by the federal government
in collaboration with employers, educators, and
union representatives. Every young machinist
training anywhere in Germany learns the same
skills in the same order on the same timetable
as every other machinist. This is good for
apprentices: It guarantees high-quality programs
where trainees learn more than one company's
methods, making it possible for those who wish
to switch jobs later on. But it's hard to
imagine this level of state control or
business-labor cooperation in the U.S.
It's certainly easy to see how
a guy who thinks we have too many types of
deodorant would not grasp
that flexibility and innovation could be lost as a
result of standardizing college the way we have
public education. It's also possible Sanders
wouldn't even grasp that this is a problem.
Continued in article
Jensen Comment
Hillary Clinton's strong suit has never been economics. In her struggles to take
the far left vote from Sanders in 2016 primary election she's making the same
mistakes by offering free college to all but the very wealthy.
What neither Sanders nor Clinton want to admit
is that nations like Germany with free college are only providing free college
to an elite percentage of high aptitude students. In Germany more the 70% of the
"high school" graduates are even allowed to go to college.
"SAT's Racial Impact," by Scott Jaschik,
Inside Higher Ed, October 27, 2015 ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/10/27/study-finds-race-growing-explanatory-factor-sat-scores-california?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=9100c271bb-DNU201510027&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-9100c271bb-197565045
Large and growing gaps in SAT scores, by race and ethnicity, are nothing new. The College Board and educators alike have acknowledged these gaps and offered a variety of explanations, with a focus on the gaps in family income (on average) and the resources at high schools that many minority students attend. And indeed there is also a consistent pattern year after year on SAT scores in that the higher the family income, on average, the higher the scores.But a new, long-term analysis of SAT scores has found that, among applicants to the University of California's campuses, race and ethnicity have become stronger predictors of SAT scores than family income and parental education levels.
. . .
The solution, for Geiser, is
to go back to what the University of California did when it adopted the SAT,
but which the state's voters have barred it from doing today: considering
race in admissions. He writes that if public universities are going to
consider SAT scores in a serious way, they should also consider race and
ethnicity.
Continued in article
California's school test scores reveal gaping racial
achievement gap," by Sharon Noguchi, San Jose Mercury News, September
9, 2015 ---
http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_28782503/califs-test-scores-reveal-yawning-achievement-gap
The first results of a new test on student
performance in California schools revealed a majority of students failed to
meet state standards in math and English -- with a stark racial achievement
gap despite decades of efforts to close it.
Of more than 3.1 million public school students
tested in English statewide, only 44 percent met or exceeded standards; in
math, only 33 percent met that threshold, according to the state Department
of Education, which released the new scores. Scores at Bay Area schools
generally mirrored the statewide results, as performance correlated with
family and community wealth, language ability and ethnicity.
Continued in
article
Jensen Comment
Asians now outscore whites on SAT and ACT examinations. Also there are now more
Hispanics in California than whites among the younger generations. There is also
a very large and growing Asian population all along the Pacific-bounded states.
Times are changing in terms of white dominance on most anything with
Californians leading the way. Affirmative action based on racial quotas
may eventually benefit whites in California, Oregon, and Washington.
Vancouver is now the most expensive city in all
of North America mainly due to wealthy Chinese buying up of real estate. San
Francisco is right behind. More Chinese wealth is pouring into Canada, however,
due to the Canadian policy of selling citizenship.
Bob Jensen's threads on affirmative action
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/HIGHerEdControversies2.htm#AcademicStandards
From the Scout Report on October 30, 2015
Wikispaces
Classroom ---
https://www.wikispaces.com/content/classroom
As the site notes,
Wikispaces Classroom is "a social writing platform" where teachers and
students can use the latest technology to seamlessly communicate and
collaborate. This virtual workspace allows teachers to create a safe,
private network where students may work on writing projects, either
independently or in teams. Creating a classroom is relatively easy, but does
require a free account. Once an account is created, users can build a space
of their own by creating new pages, uploading files, starting discussions,
and adding projects and tags. For educators looking for ways to make
homework more interactive and dynamic, Wikispaces Classroom is a big step
forward.
LeechBlock ---
http://www.proginosko.com/leechblock/
Since it first
appeared in 2007, LeechBlock has provided Internet users with a simple tool
intended to increase productivity by blocking "those time-wasting sites that
can suck the life out of your working day." With many customizable options,
this Firefox browser extension allows users to select specific sites to
block while leaving access to those that may be needed for school or work.
It also tracks the total amount of time spent browsing websites within a
specific block of time, a helpful feature for staying on top of your good
and bad browsing habits. Interested users will want to explore this website
before installing, which features Examples of various uses of the different
settings, as well as a comprehensive FAQ section, and four-step Installation
guide
Consensus on Dietary Guidelines May Be Long
In Coming
Processed meats rank alongside smoking as cancer causes - WHO
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/26/bacon-ham-sausages-processed-meats-cancer-risk-smoking-says-who
Q&A on the carcinogenicity of the consumption of red meat and processed
meat
http://www.who.int/features/q,
a/cancer-red-meat/en/
What the New Dietary Guidelines Mean for You
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/health-wellness/articles/2015/03/04/what-the-new-dietary-guidelines-mean-for-you
How strong is the science behind the U.S. Dietary Guidelines?
http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/24/health/dietary-guidelines-science/
Why the new, proposed U.S. dietary guidelines are provoking controversy and
ire
http://fortune.com/2015/10/07/dietary-guidelines-usda/
Health.gov: Dietary Guidelines
http://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2015/qanda.asp
From the Scout Report on November 6, 2015
Tweet Shot
---
http://www.tweetshot.com
For readers
who spend time on Twitter following worldwide trends for business,
education, marketing, or any other purpose, TweetShot provides a useful
service. The app has two modes: TweetShot Trend Mode and TweetShot Tag Mode.
TweetShot Trend Mode monitors the top ten trends in any country around the
world in realtime. Readers may simply select the nation they wish to
monitor, and TweetShot will provide up-to-date snapshots of what is
trending. TweetShot Tag Mode allows readers to find out what hashtags
particular users are tweeting about. Simply enter a user's Twitter handle
and TweetShot will retrieve the top four hashtags that the user tweets
about. In all, TweetShot is a useful tool for readers who are tracking
trends on the Internet and is available for both Android (3.0+) and Apple (iOS
7.0 or later) devices.
Identifont
---
http://www.identifont.com/
Identifont is
for readers who love the visual presentation of letters and alphabets, and
want to understand more. The site helps users identify fonts by certain
clues, and works in five possible categories: Fonts by Appearance, Fonts by
Name, Fonts by Similarity, Fonts by Picture, and Fonts by
Designer/Publisher. For example, if you have found a font that you love, but
don't know the name, Identifont will have you answer a series of questions
to identify the font, such as "Do the characters have serifs?" "What style
is the upper-case 'Q'tail?" and others. A similar process can be engaged for
the other four categories, as well. Typeface lovers will find much to love
on Identifont.
15 Year Anniversary of International Space Station
International Space Station Celebrates 15 Years of Occupancy
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/international-space-station-celebrates-15-years-occupancy/story?id=34912700
15 Years of the International Space Station by numbers
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/11961496/15-years-of-the-International-Space-Station-by-numbers.html
Orbiting bacteria: Space Station may need some tidying up
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/28/health/space-station-surprise-bacteria/
International Space Station
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html
International Space Station: Facts, History, & Tracking
http://www.space.com/16748-international-space-station.html
International Space Station
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/i/international_space_station/index.html
Free online textbooks, cases, and tutorials in accounting, finance,
economics, and statistics ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Education Tutorials
TeacherTube (all topics for teachers to use and
share) ---
http://www.teachertube.com/
Smithsonian Libraries: Fantastic Worlds ---
http://library.si.edu/digital-library/collection/fantastic-worlds/all
Video: Gravity Visualized by High School
Teacher in an Amazingly Elegant & Simple Way ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/11/gravity-visualized-by-high-school-teacher-in-an-elegantly-simple-way.html
Cybersecurity Curriculum Resources ---
https://niccs.us-cert.gov/education/curriculum-resources
Web English Teacher: AP & IB Resources
(literature and writing) ---
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/ap.html
NSTA: Freebies for Science Teachers ---
http://www.nsta.org/publications/freebies.aspx
On Being a Scientist: A Guide to Responsible
Conduct in Research ---
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12192/on-being-a-scientist-a-guide-to-responsible-conduct-in
Nano: For K-12 Teachers (nanotechnology) ---
http://www.nano.gov/education-training/teacher-resources
Crash Course Kids (YouTube video series for science education) ---
https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcoursekids
Citizen Maths: A Free Online Course That Teaches
Adults the Math They Missed in High School ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/11/citizen-maths-a-free-online-course-that-teaches-adults-the-math-they-missed-in-high-school.html
Nuffield Mathematics (math teaching resources
from the United Kingdom) ---
http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/nuffield-mathematics
Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum:
Teacher Resources ---
http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov/education/resources.phtml
Global Oneness Project (multicultural advocacy
stories) ---
http://www.globalonenessproject.org/
Teaching the Food System ---
http://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/teaching-the-food-system/curriculum/index.html
JSTOR Daily (a free source for new, and old published research and
scholarship) ---
http://daily.jstor.org/
Interactive Architecture Lab ---
http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/
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
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
More than 100
colleges have set up channels on YouTube ---
http://www.youtube.com/edu
Many
universities offer over 100 videos, whereas Stanford offers a whopping 583
Search for words like “accounting”
"YouTube Creates
New Section to Highlight College Content," by Jeffrey R. Young, Chronicle of
Higher Education, March 27, 2009 ---
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3684&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
TeacherTube (all topics for teachers to use and share) ---
http://www.teachertube.com/
There are now
nearly 7,000 accounting education videos on YouTube, most of which are in very
basic accounting.
But there are nearly 150 videos in advanced accounting.
There are nearly
70 videos on XBRL
YouTube Education
Channels ---
http://www.youtube.com/education?b=400
Teaching Channel ---
https://www.teachingchannel.org/
MIT Video (150 channels and over 12,000 videos) ---
http://video.mit.edu/
"10 Faculty Perspectives on What Works in Lecture Capture,"
Chronicle of Higher Education, November 4, 2011 ---
http://chronicle.com/article/10-Faculty-Perspectives-on/129268/
Engineering, Science, and Medicine Tutorials
See if you can score better than your kids|
Pew Research Center: Science Knowledge Quiz ---
http://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/science-knowledge/
2014: The Year in Interactive Storytelling,
Graphics, and Multimedia ---
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/29/us/year-in-interactive-storytelling.html
TeacherTube (all topics for teachers to use and
share) ---
http://www.teachertube.com/
This 18-year-old just won a $400,000 prize for
creating a video on Einstein’s theory of relativity ---
Promo:
http://www.businessinsider.com/ryan-chester-won-science-prize-breakthrough-ceremony-relativity-2015-11
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYv5GsXEf1o
Jensen Comment
I still don't understand this theory well enough to teach it.
Video: Gravity Visualized by High School
Teacher in an Amazingly Elegant & Simple Way ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/11/gravity-visualized-by-high-school-teacher-in-an-elegantly-simple-way.html
Essential Science for Teachers: Earth & Space Science ---
https://www.learner.org/courses/essential/earthspace/index.htm
NSTA: Freebies for Science Teachers ---
http://www.nsta.org/publications/freebies.aspx
Physics: Teacher Resources ---
http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/science/gcse/physics-4403/teaching-and-learning-resources
On Being a Scientist: A Guide to Responsible
Conduct in Research ---
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12192/on-being-a-scientist-a-guide-to-responsible-conduct-in
Smithsonian Libraries: Fantastic Worlds ---
http://library.si.edu/digital-library/collection/fantastic-worlds/all
Indianapolis Museum of Art | ArtBabble ---
http://artbabble.org/partner/indianapolis-museum-art
See Galileo’s Famous Gravity Experiment Performed in the World’s Largest
Vacuum Chamber, and on the Moon ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/10/see-galileos-famous-gravity-experiment-performed-in-the-worlds-largest-vacuum-chamber-and-on-the-moon.html
Nano: For K-12 Teachers (nanotechnology) ---
http://www.nano.gov/education-training/teacher-resources
Crash Course Kids (YouTube video series for science education) ---
https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcoursekids
Norris Geyser Basin Tour ---
http://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/photosmultimedia/norris-geyser-basin-tour.htm
Interactive Architecture Lab ---
http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/
Vanderbilt University: Law and Neuroscience Blog
---
http://lawneuro.org/blog/
MedlinePlus: Drugs, Herbs, and Supplements ---
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html
Eye Resources on the Internet: The University of
Iowa, Ophthalmology ---
http://webeye.ophth.uiowa.edu/eye-health/
Teaching the Food System ---
http://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/teaching-the-food-system/curriculum/index.html
National Center for Home Food
Preservation: How Do I Pickle? ---
http://nchfp.uga.edu/how/can6b_pickle.html
Nuffield Mathematics (math
teaching resources from the United Kingdom) ---
http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/nuffield-mathematics
Cybersecurity Curriculum Resources ---
https://niccs.us-cert.gov/education/curriculum-resources
From the Scout Report on November 6, 2015
15 Year Anniversary of International Space Station
International Space Station Celebrates 15 Years of Occupancy
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/international-space-station-celebrates-15-years-occupancy/story?id=34912700
15 Years of the International Space Station by numbers
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/11961496/15-years-of-the-International-Space-Station-by-numbers.html
Orbiting bacteria: Space Station may need some tidying up
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/28/health/space-station-surprise-bacteria/
International Space Station
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html
International Space Station: Facts, History, & Tracking
http://www.space.com/16748-international-space-station.html
International Space Station
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/i/international_space_station/index.html
Bob Jensen's threads on free online science,
engineering, and medicine tutorials are at --http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Social Science and Economics Tutorials
Brookings Institution: Metropolitan Areas ---
http://www.brookings.edu/research/topics/metropolitan-areas
The Walrus Podcast (news
commentaries from Canada) ---
http://thewalrus.ca/category/podcast/
NORC: Criminal Justice (University of Chicago
archives) ---
http://www.norc.org/Research/Topics/Pages/criminal-justice.aspx
Global Oneness Project (multicultural advocacy
stories) ---
http://www.globalonenessproject.org/
Multiracial in America: Proud, Diverse and Growing in Numbers ---
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/06/11/multiracial-in-america/
The Knotted Line (slavery versus confinement)
---
http://knottedline.com/
The TSA Blog (travel security) ---
http://blog.tsa.gov/
Illuminating Reno's Divorce Industry ---
http://renodivorcehistory.
Bob Jensen's threads on Economics, Anthropology, Social Sciences, and
Philosophy tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Law and Legal Studies
Vanderbilt University: Law and Neuroscience Blog
---
http://lawneuro.org/blog/
Illuminating Reno's Divorce Industry ---
http://renodivorcehistory.
NORC: Criminal Justice (University of Chicago
archives) ---
http://www.norc.org/Research/Topics/Pages/criminal-justice.aspx
Bob Jensen's threads on law and legal studies are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Math Tutorials
Citizen Maths: A Free Online Course That Teaches
Adults the Math They Missed in High School ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/11/citizen-maths-a-free-online-course-that-teaches-adults-the-math-they-missed-in-high-school.html
Nuffield Mathematics (math teaching resources
from the United Kingdom) ---
http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/nuffield-mathematics
An Oldie but Goodie
"The 12 Most Controversial Facts In Mathematics," by Walter Hickey,
Business Insider, March 25, 2013 ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-most-controversial-math-problems-2013-3
Bob Jensen's threads on free online mathematics tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
History Tutorials
TeacherTube (all topics for teachers to use and
share) ---
http://www.teachertube.com/
Smithsonian Libraries: Fantastic Worlds ---
http://library.si.edu/digital-library/collection/fantastic-worlds/all
300+ Etchings by Rembrandt Now Free Online,
Thanks to the Morgan Library & Museum ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/11/300-etchings-by-rembrandt-now-free-online-thanks-to-the-morgan-library-museum.html
W.B. Yeats’ Poem “When You Are Old” Adapted into
Japanese Manga Comic ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/11/w-b-yeats-poem-when-you-are-old-adapted-into-japanese-manga-comic.html
Rare 1930s Audio: W.B. Yeats Reads
Four of His Poems ---
Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2012/06/rare_1930s_audio_wb_yeats_reads_four_of_his_poems.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Web English Teacher: AP & IB Resources
(literature and writing) ---
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/ap.html
NORC: Criminal Justice (University of Chicago
archives) ---
http://www.norc.org/Research/Topics/Pages/criminal-justice.aspx
A digital portrait of Colonial life ---
http://lisnews.org/node/43841/
Journal of the American Revolution ---
http://allthingsliberty.com/
Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum:
Teacher Resources ---
http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov/education/resources.phtml
Read Work From 2015 Nobel Prize Winner in
Literature Svetlana Alexievich ---
http://daily.jstor.org/read-work-2015-nobel-prize-winner-literature-svetlana-alexievich/
Bob Jensen's threads on history tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Also see
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Happy birthday Marine Corps! Here are 37
powerful pictures of the Marine Corps through history ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/marines-birthday
JSTOR Daily (a free source for new and old published research and
scholarship) ---
http://daily.jstor.org/
"Mourning the Death of the American Railway," by Lorraine Boissoneault,
JSTPR Daily, October , 2015 ---
http://daily.jstor.org/mourning-the-american-railway/
31 beautiful vintage photos that show what New
York City looked like in the 1940s ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/beautiful-vintage-photos-of-manhattan-in-the-1940s-2013-10
A drought in Mexico has revealed something
incredible ---
http://www.techinsider.io/photos-inside-temple-of-quechula-2015-11
30,000 Works of Art by Edvard Munch & Other
Artists Put Online by Norway’s National Museum of Art ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/10/30000-works-of-art-put-online-by-norways-national-museum-of-art.html
Hand-Colored 1860s Photographs Reveal the Last
Days of Samurai Japan ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/11/hand-colored-1860s-photographs-reveal-the-last-days-of-samurai-japan.html
Colorado State Archives ---
https://www.colorado.gov/archives
Illuminating Reno's Divorce Industry ---
http://renodivorcehistory.
"Licoricia of Winchester, Jewish Widow and Medieval Financier," by Hillary
Waterman, JSTPR Daily, October 27, 2015 ---
http://daily.jstor.org/licoricia-jewish-medieval-women-moneylenders/
William the Conqueror first brought Jews to
England from Rouen (now the north of France)
shortly after 1066. Hugely ambitious but chronically short of cash, Norman
kings desperately needed the Jews’ renowned financial resources and networks
to stimulate economic development as well as to finance their personal
campaigns and pet building projects.
At the time, Jews were considered chattels of the
king, under his control but also entitled to royal protection. They were not
allowed to leave the country without permission, but they could travel
freely and settle in English towns of their choosing. By 1200 there were
approximately 4,000 to 5,000 Jews in England. Marginalized in both the
Norman and Saxon worlds, Jews settled together and lived in close
communities of 50 to 200 people, usually close to an urban center with a
castle, such as Winchester or Oxford. To Jews, the
castles served as refuges during times of persecutions, administrative
centers, seasonal residences for powerful clients, and even prisons.
History chronicles that Jews of medieval and Renaissance Europe were
relegated to moneylending because of Christian prohibitions on the practice
of usury—lending money at interest. Our collective imagination has been
shaped largely by Shakespeare’s iconic Shylock, the male antagonist in
The Merchant of Venice, who embodies the noxious stereotype of the
Jewish moneylender. What few probably know is that as many as 10 percent of
loans recorded in the English king’s rolls of the time were made by Jewish
women, many of whom became well-known moneylenders in their own
right, and not mere adjuncts of their husbands.
Often Jewish women were the sole supporters of their households (as they
still are in some ultra-Orthodox families today), enabling men to study the
Torah and pray, necessary activities in Orthodox Jewish life. Unlike ladies
of the ruling Norman class, who under English common law had no legal status
apart from their husbands, even married Jewish women conducted business and
represented themselves in the courts. A Jewish bride received a dowry, which
often remained under her personal control, and in many instances, may have
constituted seed money for starting a business.
Notable female lenders included Avigay of London, Chera of Winchester,
Mirabel of Gloucester, Belaset of Bristol, Comitissa of Cambridge, and
Licoricia of Winchester—one of the most successful and glamorous female
Jewish lenders of her time.
Licoricia—Her
Life and Times
The story of Licoricia of Winchester illustrates just how much wealth and
influence a Jewish woman could accumulate. She made friends in high places
and was frequently received at the court of King Henry III (son of King John
of Magna Carta fame). Licoricia and her ilk traveled widely on horseback or
in carts, richly clothed, and accompanied by armed escorts. She lent money
to individuals in all strata of society, bankrolling illustrious nobles like
the king’s brother-in-law, Simon de Montfort, before his downfall. She also
did small financing for farmers and lesser barons, informal pawn broking,
and household lending to local gentile women.
Continued in article
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Language Tutorials
Bob Jensen's links to language tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#Languages
Music Tutorials
TeacherTube (all topics for teachers to use and
share) ---
http://www.teachertube.com/
Download 10,000 of the First Recordings of Music
Ever Made, Courtesy of the UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/11/download-10000-of-the-first-recordings-of-music-ever-made-courtesy-of-the-ucsb-cylinder-audio-archive.html
Studio 360 (pop culture and the arts) ---
http://www.studio360.org/
Bob Jensen's threads on free music tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's threads on music performances ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm
Writing Tutorials
Run these up the flag pole
Ten management-speak phrases we love to hate ---
https://www.icas.com/ca-today-news/ten-management-speak-phrases-we-love-to-hate
1. Touching base
A recent
study found that “touching base” is one of the most overused
pieces of office jargon. It means you want to make contact
with someone or meet up, as in: “I just wanted to touch base
with you so we can discuss that proposal."
2. Look under the bonnet
This example
of office speak is used to communicate the need to uncover
facts or find out more information. Used in sentences such
as, “It could be a great funding opportunity, so let’s look
under the bonnet and see what we discover”. It’s a close
cousin of: “We need to peel back the onion."
3. Don’t let the grass grow too long
Used to
politely tell people to work faster, get on with things, or
take advantage of an opportunity. An example might be: “We’d
better not let the grass too long on that project.”
4. Low hanging fruit
Meaning to
take the easy or ‘quick wins’ at work. “Grabbing the low
hanging fruit” is about doing the simple stuff first. While
this can be all well and good, it’s important not to forget
about the more complicated things, too.
5. Idea shower
The new term
for having a brainstorming session and sharing ideas, but it
is likely to get a few raised eyebrows if actually used in
your morning catch-up.
6. Eating your own dogfood
Office speak
that means to try something out that you have made yourself,
such as using your own product to test it before you sell
it. “We should be eating our own dogfood before we launch in
September.”
7. Solutionise
‘Solutionise’ is business-speak for solving problems, as in:
“Let’s solutionise this problem over lunch.” Although it
is a word, it actually refers to the heating of metal
to form a homogeneous solid solution. We recommend you
substitute this jargon for the perfectly adequate word
“solve”.
8. Give it to me in big handfuls
Used to ask
for a high-level summary of information, rather than the
details, as in: “I don’t need to know the specifics, just
give it to me in big handfuls.”
9. Paradigm shift
An overused
phrase used to describe a change in business operations,
such as: “Our business is going through a paradigm shift.” A
word of caution with this one, as it has the potential to
sound like you don’t really know what’s going on or what the
future holds for your business.
10. Run it up the flagpole
This one
means to try something out and see what the result is. As
in, “Why don’t you run it up the flagpole and see what
happens?” Similar to this lovely example of office jargon:
“Put a record on and see who dances.”
Jensen Comment
These aren't so bad as the ones we use in the Academy that only small
subsets of faculty and students can define.
For example, "accountics scientists are in a cargo cult"
The trouble is that most academics and nearly all the people in the world
don't know what constitutes a "cargo cult."
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm#CargoCult
Web English Teacher: AP & IB Resources
(literature and writing) ---
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/ap.html
Bob Jensen's helpers for writers are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob3.htm#Dictionaries
Bob Jensen's threads on medicine ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#Medicine
Updates from WebMD ---
http://www.webmd.com/
November 12, 2015
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November 10, 2015
"You're Waking Up Wrong: Getting into a
healthy morning routine can be a struggle: Here are some scientifically
backed tips for fixing yours," by Seth Porges, Bloomberg, October 29,
2015 ---
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-29/you-re-waking-up-wrong?cmpid=BBD102915_BIZ
Jensen Comment
To awaken early feed a family (called a murder in the case of crow families) of
crows. This does not work well very long before earliest daylight, but since
Erika started feeding a "murder" of crows the squawking and roof pacing
commences in the dim morning light quite a while before the sun wakes up (and
long before Erika awakens). Erika feeds our many crows on the theory that the
crows are less likely to kill our nesting songbirds and friendly chipmunks. Let
me tell you that her theory is definitely flawed.
PS
I thought the movie A Murder of Crows was an excellent mystery.
MedlinePlus: Drugs, Herbs, and Supplements
---
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html
Headspace Daily (meditation guide) ---
https://www.headspace.com/blog
"Head Transplants: A History," by James MacDonald, JSTOR Daily,
October 19, 2015 ---
http://daily.jstor.org/head-transplants-history/
Move
over Igor,
the first human head transplant is tentatively scheduled for 2017.
The proposed recipient, a 30 year old computer coder, suffers from muscular
atrophy. The donor will be clinically brain dead, but otherwise healthy.
There are many questions about whether this plan is even remotely feasible,
but, as outlandish as it sounds, head transplants have a surprisingly long
history.
In the
1950s,
Soviet scientist Vladimir Demikhov transplanted the head of one dog onto the
body of another,
resulting in a two-headed dog. This was replicating an experiment conducted
by C.C. Guthrie in 1908. In 1965, Dr. Robert White of Cleveland, Ohio, not
to be outdone, transplanted the brain of one dog into another dog. But one
brain wasn’t switched for the other; White inserted the donor dog’s brain
into a space in the other dog’s neck, surgically giving it two brains. The
second brain did not function as a brain, but it did survive—as did the host
dog—for up to 5 days before it was removed. The purpose of the experiment
was to learn about the brain’s functions once it’s removed from its natural
physiological mechanisms.
Nevertheless, having exhausted the possibility of a two-headed dog,
White moved on to transplant monkey heads using an updated version of
Demikhov’s procedure.
After transplantation, both
monkey heads remained alert, able to process sensory information and react
to events. It took a large, round-the clock-team and a lot of money to keep
each two-headed monkey alive, and out of ten transplants, the longest any of
the recipient monkeys lived was 36 hours. As with the dogs, White was very
clear that the experiment was not performed with human head transplants in
mind.
The results of these experiments, however, do not naturally assume the
successful possibility of a human head transplant. At least not yet. For one
thing, the host body has to survive without a head long enough for the new
head to be attached, a feat yet to be accomplished. Medical ethicists have
also raised concerns, citing the tricky ethics of organ donation and the
high risk for the patients involvedContinued in article
How to Mislead With Statistics
Bacon report serves up
baloney
by Tom Shattuck, The Boston Harold, October 27, 2015 ---
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/tom_shattuck/2015/10/shattuck_bacon_report_serves_up_baloney
From the Scout Report on October
Consensus on Dietary Guidelines May Be Long In Coming
Processed meats rank alongside smoking as cancer causes - WHO
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/26/bacon-ham-sausages-processed-meats-cancer-risk-smoking-says-who
Q&A on the carcinogenicity of the consumption of red meat and processed
meat
http://www.who.int/features/qa/cancer-red-meat/en/
What the New Dietary Guidelines Mean for You
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/health-wellness/articles/2015/03/04/what-the-new-dietary-guidelines-mean-for-you
How strong is the science behind the U.S. Dietary Guidelines?
http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/24/health/dietary-guidelines-science/
Why the new, proposed U.S. dietary guidelines are provoking controversy and
ire
http://fortune.com/2015/10/07/dietary-guidelines-usda/
Health.gov: Dietary Guidelines
http://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2015/qanda.asp
How to Mislead With Statistics
Bacon report serves up
baloney
by Tom Shattuck, The Boston Harold, October 27, 2015 ---
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/tom_shattuck/2015/10/shattuck_bacon_report_serves_up_baloney
Humor September 1-11, 2015
There should not be protests on this campus
since administrators have heavier loads
Ryerson U students reveal that administrators'
bathrooms feature two-ply, while everyone else has one-ply
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/02/student-newspaper-reveals-inequitable-toilet-paper-distribution?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=a93b96438a-DNU20151102&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-a93b96438a-197565045
Jensen Question
Did one of the administrators leak this?
When a middle aged couple named Stake had an
unexpected son was the choice of the the name Michael Irwin Stake intentional?
Bob Jensen
From the Harvard Business Review
Strategic Humor: Cartoons from the December 2015 Issue ---
https://hbr.org/2015/11/strategic-humor-cartoons-from-the-december-2015-issue
The 10 funniest 'Dilbert' comic strips about
idiot bosses ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/dilbert-comics-on-bosses-2015-10
Forwarded by Paula
Cleaning up English
The European Commission has just announced an
agreement whereby English will become the official language of the European
Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British
Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has
accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft
"c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy.
The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k".
This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the
sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make
words like fotograf 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new
spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are
possible.
Governments will enkourage the removal of double
letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.
Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the
silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.
By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps
such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".
During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be
dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil
sensibl riten styl.
Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and
evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil
finali kum tru.
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking
German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.
Forwarded by Paula
Why did the chicken cross the road?
DONALD TRUMP: All Mexican chickens who wish to cross this road must submit
to a complete background check, and full body search. The criminal and rapist
chickens will be sent back.
BARACK OBAMA: Let me be perfectly clear, if the chickens like their eggs they
can keep their eggs. No chicken will be required to cross the road to
surrender her eggs. Period.
JOHN McCain: My friends, the chicken crossed the road because he recognized
the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the
other side of the road.
HILLARY CLINTON: What difference at this point does it make why the chicken
crossed the road ?
DICK CHENEY: Where's my gun?
COLIN POWELL: Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the
satellite image of the chicken crossing the road.
BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with that chicken.
AL GORE: I invented the chicken.
JOHN KERRY: Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now
against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the
chicken's intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against it.
AL SHARPTON: Why are all the chickens white?
DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is that this chicken won't realize that he
must first deal with the problem on this side of the road before it goes after
the problem on the other side of the road. What we need to do is help him
realize how stupid he is acting by not taking on his current problems before
adding any new problems.
OPRAH: Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why
he wants to cross the road so badly. So instead of having the chicken learn
from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I'm going to give
this chicken a NEW CAR so that he can just drive across the road and not live
his life like the rest of the chickens.
ANDERSON COOPER: We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have
not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.
NANCY GRACE: That chicken crossed the road because he's guilty! You can see
it in his eyes and the way he walks.
MARTHA STEWART: No one called me to warn me which way the chicken was
going. I had a standing order at the Farmer's Market to sell my eggs when the
price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider
information.
DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes,
the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not been told.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die in the rain, alone.
JERRY FALWELL: Because the chicken was gay! Can't you people see the plain
truth? That's why they call it the 'other side.' Yes, my friends, that
chicken was gay. If you eat that chicken, you will become gay too. I say we
boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination that the Liberal media
whitewashes with seemingly harmless phrases like 'the other side.' That
chicken should not be crossing the road. It's as plain and as simple as that.
GRANDPA: In my day we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody
told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough for us.
BARBARA WALTERS: Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be
listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heartwarming story of
how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish its
lifelong dream of crossing the road.
ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.
JOHN LENNON: Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together,
in peace.
BILL GATES: I have just released e-Chicken 2015, which will not only cross
roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents and balance your
checkbook. Internet Explorer is an integral part of e-Chicken 2015. This new
platform is much more stable and will never reboot.
ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move
beneath the chicken?
COLONEL SANDERS: Did I miss one??????
Forwarded by Paula
Riddle for Seniors
You are on a horse, galloping at a constant speed.
On
your right side is a sharp drop-off.
On
your left side is an elephant traveling at the same speed as you.
Directly in front of you is a galloping kangaroo and your horse is unable to
overtake it.
Behind you is a lion running at the same speed as you and the kangaroo.
What must you do to get out of this highly dangerous situation?
Get off the merry-go-round and go home, you've had enough excitement for one
day!
Bob Hope quotations forwarded by James Don
Edwards
ON TURNING 70
'I still chase women, but only downhill.'
ON TURNING 80
'That's the time of your life when even your birthday suit needs pressing.'
ON TURNING 90
'You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.'
ON TURNING 100
'I don't feel old. In fact,
I don't feel
anything until
noon.
Then it's time for my nap.'
ON GIVING UP HIS EARLY
CAREER, BOXING
'I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.'
ON NEVER WINNING AN
OSCAR
'Welcome to the Academy Awards, or, as it's called at my home, 'Passover.'
ON GOLF
'Golf is my profession. Show business is just to pay the green fees.'
ON PRESIDENTS
'I have performed for 12 presidents but entertained only six.'
ON WHY HE CHOSE SHOWBIZ
FOR
HIS CAREER
'When I was born, the doctor said to my mother,
Congratulations, you have an eight pound ham.'
ON RECEIVING THE
CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL
'I feel very humble, but I think I have the strength of character to fight it.'
ON HIS FAMILY'S EARLY
POVERTY
'Four of us slept in the one bed. When it got cold, mother threw on another
brother.'
ON HIS SIX BROTHERS
'That's how I learned to dance. Waiting for the bathroom.'
ON HIS EARLY FAILURES
'I would not have had anything to eat if it wasn't for the stuff the audience
threw at me.'
ON
GOING TO HEAVEN
'I've done benefits for ALL religions.
I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.'
Forwarded by Paula
Ramblings of a Retired Mind
I found this timely, because today I was in a
store that sells sunglasses, and ONLY sunglasses. A young lady walks over to me
and asks, "What brings you in today?" I looked at her, and said, "I'm interested
in buying a refrigerator". She didn't quite know how to respond. Am I getting to
be that age?
I was thinking about how a status symbol of
today is those cell phones that everyone has clipped onto their belt or purse. I
can't afford one. So I'm wearing my garage door opener.
You know, I spent a fortune on deodorant before
I realized that people didn't like me anyway.
I was thinking that women should put pictures of
missing husbands on beer cans!
I was thinking about old age and decided that
old age is when you still have something on the ball but you are just too tired
to bounce it.
I thought about making a fitness movie for folks
my age and call it 'Pumping Rust'.
When people see a cat's litter box they always
say, "Oh, have you got a cat?" Just once I want to say, "No, it's for company!"
Employment application blanks always ask who is
to be called in case of an emergency. I think you should write, "An ambulance."
I was thinking about how people seem to read the
Bible a whole lot more as they get older. Then it dawned on me: They were
cramming for their finals.
As for me, I'm just hoping God grades on a
curve.
Birds of a feather flock together and then poop
on your car.
The older you get the tougher it is to lose
weight because by then your body and your fat have gotten to be really good
friends.
The easiest way to find something lost around
the house is to buy a replacement.
Did you ever notice: The Roman Numerals for
forty (40) are XL.
The sole purpose of a child's middle name is so
he can tell when he's really in trouble..
Did you ever notice: When you put the 2 words
'The' and 'IRS' together it spells 'Theirs...'
Aging: Eventually you will reach a point when
you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.
Some people try to turn back their "odometers."
Not me. I want people to know 'why' I look this way. I've traveled a long way
and some of the roads weren't paved.
You know you are getting old when everything
either dries up or leaks.
Ah! Being young is beautiful but being old is
comfortable.
And finally: "Lord, please keep your arm around
my shoulder and your hand over my mouth."
Humor
October 1-31, 2015
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q4.htm#Humor103115
Humor September 1-30, 2015
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q3.htm#Humor093015
Humor August 1-31, 2015
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q3.htm#Humor081115
Humor July 1-31, 2015
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q3.htm#Humor073115
Humor June 1-30, 2015
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q2.htm#Humor043015
Humor May 1-31, 2015
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q2.htm#Humor043015
Humor April 1-30, 2015
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q2.htm#Humor043015
Humor March 1-31, 2015
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q1.htm#Humor033115
Humor February 1-28, 2015
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q1.htm#Humor022815
Humor January 1-31, 2015
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q1.htm#Humor013115
Humor December 1-31, 2014
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book14q4.htm#Humor123114
Humor November 1-30, 2014
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book14q4.htm#Humor113014
Humor October 1-31, 2014
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book14q4.htm#Humor103114
Humor September 1-30, 2014
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http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book14q3.htm#Humor093014
Humor August 1-31, 2014
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book14q3.htm#Humor083114
Humor July 1-31, 2014---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book14q3.htm#Humor073114
Tidbits Archives ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
Update in
2014
20-Year Sugar Hill Master Plan ---
http://www.nccouncil.org/images/NCC/file/wrkgdraftfeb142014.pdf
Click here to search Bob Jensen's web site if you have key words to enter ---
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For example if you want to know what Jensen documents have the term "Enron"
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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 ---
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Bob Jensen's Threads ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
New
Bookmarks ---
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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
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accountant in public accounting, private industry, government or
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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
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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) ---
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Bob Jensen's Sort-of Blogs ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/JensenBlogs.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
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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)
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