The role of big data in medicine – http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/pharmaceuticals_and_medical_products/the_role_of_big_data_in_medicine

Technology is revolutionizing our understanding and treatment of disease, says the founding director of the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology at New York’s Mount Sinai Health System.

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I am inspired! Last week I went to Aruba to facilitate a 2 day workshop with University of Aruba and the Instituto Pedagógico de Aruba organized by Laspau @ Harvard University. One of the workshop attendees, Clementia Eugene, had wrote this poem I am sharing with all of you, after a previous experience. What a Christmas gift!

Motivated radiant student

 ~ Clementia Eugene

Please, Please, Oh Please!

I beseech you

Do NOT utter

This course has a status of being tough

Students pass, on the second and final lap

Expect to work harder

More than any other course on campus

I pray, Oh triumphant God

That you tell

Your profession is simply the best

Demonstrate passion and enthusiasm

Exude positive energy

Flood the classroom with virtuous vibes

Through interactive and active learning

I beg you

Tell of the intrinsic value

Self-awareness

 Personal growth and satisfaction

Where gratitude abounds  

I, ask the angels and saints

To inspire you

To tell of the extrinsic rewards

That education is power

Unlocking doors of possibilities

Social mobility guaranteed

Living the life they have reason to value

Achieving their career goal

I, implore the Universal God

To coach you

Tell the success stories of alumni

That you believe in their potential

Tell of your efficacy expectancy

Positive outcome expectancies

Balancing the cognitive study load

And then, your students

Motivated, inspired, goal oriented

Performance driven

Will shine, like the radiant sun

18th Oct 2015

(Inspired by LAUSPAU Program on Teacher Professional Development,

Module No. 2 Principles of Student Learning and Student Retention)

According to the TimesHigherEducation, overall, China is the most-represented nation, with 39 institutions in the extended top 200 list of higher education institutions in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa and 30 other “emerging economies”.

Browse all the rankings here.

Don’t tell me HiEd is not a lucrative business (even though most universities and colleges are non-profit)!

The Chronicle’s executive-compensation package has been updated with information on private-college presidents for the 2013 calendar year. The update provides data on 558 chief executives at 497 private nonprofit colleges in the United States. The median salary for leaders in office for the full year was $436,429. Thirty-two of the presidents earned more than $1 million.

The most recent data on public-college presidents, also from 2013, include information on 238 chief executives at 220 public universities and systems in the United States. The median salary for those in office for the full year was $428,250. Two of the presidents earned more than $1 million.

Read the CHE article

Columbia and edX Launch Online Data Science Education Series – https://lnkd.in/ejvEvap

Wikipedia-Mining Algorithm Reveals World’s Most Influential Universities | MIT Technology Review – https://lnkd.in/ebrRVuD

To Get More Creative, Become Less Productive – https://lnkd.in/emACQec

This was part of the model of the engineering school helped develop in California (NEU)!

Business Professors Need to Spend Time in Companies – https://lnkd.in/eby6qZ6

Big is beautiful for merging universities – BBC News – https://lnkd.in/eYupZVG

‘Accidental Entrepreneurs’ — When a Personal Mission Morphs into a Big Business – https://lnkd.in/eb4rDBT

Google Doesn’t Really Care Anymore Where You Went To School – https://lnkd.in/euybCCn

“It’s one of the flaws in how we assess people,” Bock said. “We assume that if you went to Harvard, Stanford or MIT that you are smart. We assume that if you got good grades you will do well at work… There is no relationship between where you went to school and how you did five, 10, 15 years into your career. So, we stopped looking at it.”

There’s an awful cost to getting a PhD that no one talks about – https://lnkd.in/evfgkte

For more information – see announcement here: Engr_Edu_Purdue_Head_2015_v2