The vast majority of employers are willing to pay higher salaries to new hires skilled in new media, according to a Ball State University study.
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Worldwide, economies are grinding to a halt. Property values are plummeting. And stock markets are in the tank. Bad news, you might think, for American colleges searching abroad for students.
Not necessarily. At a meeting Tuesday of senior international-education administrators, several participants said that the declining world economy, combined with ever-increasing demand for higher education, may actually lead to international-enrollment increases at American colleges. And anecdotally, at least, several universities reported that applications are up for the fall.
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(This is the conference for which I helped find volunteers last year when it took place in Washington.--John)
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We are so fortunate to have Dr. Baron join our advisor meeting on 4/16. We're already emailing back and forth some of the coverage she's received in the media. Here's a selection . . .The length of time students study overseas has no significant impact on whether they become globally engaged later in life, according to researchers at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, a conclusion that is sure to add fuel to the already fiery debate over the efficacy of increasingly popular short-term study-abroad programs.
The findings of the Study Abroad for Global Engagement project, presented here on Thursday at the annual conference of the Forum on Education Abroad, suggest that students who go overseas for a short period of time, four weeks or less, are just as likely as those who study abroad for several months or even a year to be globally engaged.
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The struggles of print media to adapt to the Internet age have been well documented. The implications of the Web for campus public-relations officers, in contrast, have received scant attention. But our day of reckoning has come.
We have two main issues to consider: Our Web sites represent a potent delivery system for disseminating stories about our institutions. Conversely, the gradual demise of daily newspapers means that we have fewer traditional opportunities to publicize our work.
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Scoop44 launched today as "an online national outlet covering the Obama Administration, national politics, and a new generation of Americans produced, edited, and written by young people across the nation and abroad." It was covered by CNN in an interview with Alexander Heffner, president and editor in chief, but I can't seem to get the embed to work. The management are all current students, and if students are interested in getting published, they can apply here.Students from outside the European Union will be able to tap into more than $1.2-billion in new scholarship money over the next five years through Erasmus Mundus, an academic-mobility program. The European Commission, the executive arm of the union, announced the new funds on Monday.
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Read the headlines and it would be easy to conclude that as the new Obama administration takes power, facing an array of domestic and international crises, it will be monitored by a substantially depleted Washington press corps.
It isn't exactly so.
The corps of journalists covering Washington D.C. at the dawn of the Obama administration is not so much smaller as it is dramatically transformed. And that transformation will markedly alter what Americans know and not know about the new government, as well as who will know it and who will not.
A careful accounting of the numbers, plus detailed interviews with journalists, lawmakers, press association executives and government officials, reveals that what we once thought of as the mainstream news media serving a general public have indeed shrunk -- perhaps far more than many would imagine. A roll call of the numbers may shock.
But as the mainstream media have shrunk, a new sector of niche media has grown in its place, offering more specialized and detailed information than the general media to smaller, elite audiences, often built around narrowly targeted financial, lobbying and political interests. Some of these niche outlets are financed by an economic model of high-priced subscriptions, others by image advertising from big companies like defense contractors, oil companies and mobile phone alliances trying to influence policy makers.
In addition, the contingent of foreign reporters in Washington has grown to nearly 10 times the size it was a generation ago. And the picture they are sending abroad of the country is a far different one than the world received when the information came mainly via American based wire services and cable news.
Consider a few examples:
ClimateWire, an on-line newsletter launched less than a year ago to cover the climate policy debate for a small, high-end audience, deploys more than twice the reporting power around Capitol Hill as does the Hearst News Service, which provides Washington news for the chain's 16 daily newspapers.
The Washington bureau of Mother Jones, a San Francisco-based, left-leaning non-profit magazine, which had no reporters permanently assigned to the nation's capital a decade ago, today has seven, about the same size as the now-reduced Time magazine bureau.
The Washington bureau of the Arab satellite channel Al Jazeera, which opened a modest bureau when George W. Bush took office eight years ago, now has 105 staff members in its various services accredited to cover Congress, a staff similar in size to that of CBS News -- both radio and television -- at 129.
Or consider that the organization with the largest number of journalists accredited to the press galleries Congress is CQ, a news operation that produces an array of on-line and print publications with names like CQ Budget Tracker and CQ Senate Watch. Its 149 reporters eclipse the number of Hill-accredited journalists at the Associated Press (134), and congressional staffers dealing with accreditation say CQ has since surpassed even the hometown Washington Post in numbers. A decade ago, CQ had 40.
Collectively, the implications of these changes are considerable. For those who participate in the American democracy, the "balance of information" has been tilted away from voters along Main Streets thousands of miles away to issue-based groups that jostle for influence daily in the corridors of power.
In 2008, newspapers from only 23 states had reporters based in Washington covering the federal government, according to the listings of Hudson's Washington News Media Contacts Directory. That is down by a third from 35 states listed in the directory's 1985 edition -- and that was before a host of further cutbacks late in 2008.
As New York Times Washington Bureau Chief Dean Baquet put it, "It concentrates knowledge in the hands of those who want to influence votes. It means [for example] the lobbyist knows more about Senator [Richard] Shelby than the people of Alabama. That's not good for democracy."
These are the conclusions of a three-month study conducted by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism and journalist Tyler Marshall on the scale, scope and nature of the Washington press corps at the beginning of the new administration. Marshall conducted the research and reporting. The report was written by the Project and Marshall jointly.
Among the findings:
The shift from media aimed at a general public toward one serving more specialized and elite interests also comes as important parts of the federal government -- most notably arms of the executive branch -- have become more circumspect, more secretive, and more combative in their dealings with the media. As a result, the traditional -- and natural -- adversarial relationship between the media and the federal government has hardened perceptibly at a time when the mainstream Washington-based media have weakened. Symbolic of the state of this relationship, George W. Bush is the first president since Theodore Roosevelt not to address the National Press Club during his years in office.
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1. As of January 2009, Time had eight in its Washington bureau, down from more than 30 in the mid-1980s.
2. This means accredited to cover the 110th Congress, whose term concluded at the end of 2008.
The Cybermetrics Lab, a research group based in Spain, has released the latest edition of its biannual Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, which seeks to measure “the performance and impact of universities through their Web presence.”
According to the group’s Web site, the rankings—which Cybermetrics began publishing in 2004—were originally conceived as a way of promoting open access to academic materials online. It comes as no surprise, then, that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose OpenCourseWare project boasts the world’s largest collection of free teaching materials, tops the list.
Well, maybe not yours, but there's a piece in The Washington Post today by Darren Gladstone from PC World that discusses the transferable skills from World of Warcraft (WoW) and other multiplayer online video games. At last year's NACE, I heard a story about a guy applying for a job at Yahoo who had a terrible resume, but included his rank in WoW. A sympathetic hiring manager brought him in for an interview and he got the job.Organized and led my 50-member guild through three successful back-to-back Nexus runs." You don't see that written on anyone's résumé, but apparently some folks do list the level and class of their World of Warcraft characters. This might seem a little far-fetched, but associate professor--and director of MIT's Education Arcade Program--Eric Klopfer says that a number of recent studies have examined what practical skills a person can pick up by playing electronic games. Can you legitimately learn something from WoW besides efficient techniques for slinging fireballs at foes? Klopfer points to Constance Steinkeuhler's work at UW Wisconsin. She is "showing that people are developing and applying all kinds of useful skills in World of Warcraft--data collection and analysis, collaboration, planning, resource management and even team management." Remove the "WoW" identification from the place of employment, and all of these accomplishments look fantastic on a résumé.
CareerBuilder.com Job Search led the category with 9.1 million visitors, up 78 percent versus year ago, followed by Yahoo! HotJobsJob Search, up 146% and Indeed.comJob Search. SimplyHired, Inc. had the strongest growth rate of the top ten sites in the category, growing 161%.
| Job Search Category Total U.S. (Home/Work/University Locations December 2008 vs. December 2007) | |||
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| Total Unique Visitors (000) | ||
| Site | Dec-2007 | Dec-2008 | % Change |
| Total Internet: Total Audience | 183,619 | 190,650 | 4 |
| Job Search | 12,445 | 18,826 | 51 |
| CareerBuilder.com Job Search | 5,132 | 9,121 | 78 |
| Yahoo! HotJobs Job Search | 2,282 | 5,605 | 146 |
| Indeed.com Job Search | 2,712 | 5,106 | 88 |
| Monster.com Job Search | 4,131 | 3,776 | -9 |
| Simply Hired, Inc. | 1,188 | 3,104 | 161 |
| JOB.COM Job Search | 731 | 1,237 | 69 |
| MSN Careers by CareerBuilder.com Job Search | 593 | 1,004 | 69 |
| AOL Find a Job by CareerBuilder.com Job Search | 504 | 856 | 70 |
| Jobs.net Job Search | 350 | 368 | 5 |
| Jobster.com Job Search | 186 | 365 | 97 |
| Source: comScore Media Metrix | |||
Jack Flanagan, executive vice president of comScore, said "While much of the U.S. economy is suffering, job search has performed significantly better than average web site during these challenging times... Americans are turning online for this assistance now more than ever."
The consumer profile reveals that demographic segments in the job search category were disproportionately affected in 2008 by the current job market. Interestingly, the share of minutes spent by women in the category grew substantially, up 7.2 percentage points versus year ago.
Mr. Flanagan added "It's possible that women are being either disproportionately affected by job losses, or... playing a more active role in the job searches of their spouses... we could be seeing a phenomenon of more households needing to have dual wage earners... amidst a sharp reduction in the value of their assets and net worth."
Other demographic segments accounting for a substantially higher share of the time spent on job sites in December 2008 than in 2007 include people between the ages of 25-49, households making at least $75,000, households without children, and those in the South Atlantic and West South Central census regions.
| Demographic Profile of Visitors to the Job Search Category (December 2008 vs. December 2007 Total U.S., Home/Work/University Locations) | |||
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| Share of Minutes in Category | ||
| Demographic Segments | Dec-2007 | Dec-2008 | Point Change |
| Gender |
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| Males | 53.5% | 46.3% | -7.2 |
| Females | 46.5% | 53.7% | 7.2 |
| Age | |||
| Persons: Under 24 | 16.6% | 15.3% | -1.4 |
| Persons: 25-49 | 57.8% | 62.7% | 4.8 |
| Persons: 50+ | 25.5% | 22.0% | -3.5 |
| Household Income | |||
| Under $75,000 | 56.2% | 53.1% | -3.1 |
| $75,000+ | 43.8% | 46.9% | 3.1 |
| Presence of Children in Household | |||
| Children: No | 42.0% | 46.6% | 4.7 |
| Children: Yes | 58.0% | 53.3% | -4.7 |
| Region (U.S.) | |||
| West North Central | 6.5% | 7.2% | 0.7 |
| Mountain | 8.3% | 6.5% | -1.8 |
| Pacific | 14.3% | 10.9% | -3.3 |
| New England | 8.0% | 3.9% | -4.1 |
| Mid Atlantic | 14.3% | 10.7% | -3.6 |
| South Atlantic | 19.0% | 27.5% | 8.5 |
| East South Central | 5.7% | 6.5% | 0.9 |
| West South Central | 5.9% | 9.8% | 3.9 |
| East North Central | 18.0% | 16.9% | -1.1 |
| Source: comScore MediaMetrix | |||
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