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UCLA has hired Washington Redskins linebackers coach Lou Spanos as the Bruins’ defensive coordinator, the school announced Tuesday.
“I am thrilled a coach with Lou’s NFL background and defensive pedigree has agreed to join our staff. Now that our coaching staff is complete, I’d like to thank Dan Guerrero for his support as we sought to bring the finest coaches in football to UCLA,” coach Jim Mora said in a statement. “We have a collection of men that will not only be mentors to our student-athletes, but given their experience at the highest levels of football, will also be able to provide them a blueprint for competing and winning, and reaching their athletic potential.”
Spanos’ hiring was first reported by the Los Angeles Times. The Bruins’ staff under Mora is now complete. You can revie Read more…
CROOKSTON, Minn. University of Minnesota, Crookston Chancellor Charles Casey plans to retire at the end of the school year.
Casey made his announcement during his “State of the Campus” address. His last day as chancellor will be June 30.
Casey has been UMC chancellor since September 2005. He also has held other university leadership roles, including serving as a member of the Board of Regents and as dean and director of University of Minnesota Extension.
During Casey’s tenure the Crookston campus saw significant enrollment gains, including four consecutive years of record enrollment. The number of degree-seeking students hit a record of 1,600 for the 2011 fall semester.
The confrontation between New Haven Independent reporter Melissa Bailey and a New Haven schools press official has gotten attention on Jim Romeneskos blog — and now the school official has turned in his letter of resignation. Not everyone thinks the situation is as cut and dried as it may seem, including some of the 120 commenters on the New Haven Independent site and Hartford Courant columnist Rick Green. What do you think?
Students engaged, active, on-task and learning: thats the ideal situation in any instructional situation. With the articles presented in this Newtons laws table of contents, that ideal instructional situation is possible. Use the lessons in these articles to teach about motion and gravity, then, use these as tools for re-teaching and making connections to other subject areas such as mathematics and physical education. Your students will learn and your instruction will be dynamic and focused. That is guaranteed.
Newtons Law Study Guides
This article is the first article to use on Newtons laws, serving as an introduction to the series of articles that follow for teaching students about motion, speed, acceleration and velocity. Use this resource for building students understanding of motion.
Introduction to Motion
This introductory lesson introduces students to the unit of study on motion.
California’s public colleges and universities are changing too many rules unilaterally and should be more accountable to the public, the state’s independent Legislative Analyst’s Office said in a report released last week.
California State University is setting its own rules for raising executive salaries; the University of California is shifting who is eligible to enroll; and community colleges are hoarding data that should be open to the public, say the higher education experts who advise the Legislature.
To fix the problem, the state should create a system for higher education oversight, according to the report, which points back to 1960 when the California Master Plan for Higher Education warned of the need to keep a watchful eye on the state’s three higher-education systems.
For years there was such a body, the California Postsecondary Education Commission.
