EDUTRUE Masthead


Original Aphorism: The best Students . . .


CONTINUING EDUCATION IS
EASIER DONE THAN NOT DONE

This site is dedicated to raising awareness of our human interconnectedness in both our schools and communities.
It is strongly urged that we rethink education from a more
unified and humanitarian learning-centered perspective.

If a man's education is finished, he is finished. (E.A. Filene)





Students are ailing
With site managers failing;
Instructors consider bailing
With reforms still trailing.

Thomas James Darling





Treating students — or faculty as an underclass
does not elevate administrative power — it diminishes it.
Only when administrators work closely with students and faculty
can the benefits of organizational unity be realized.



EDUTRUE ESSAY SERIES




Keeping Love in the Information Technology Loop

Neighborly Reconnection: Nurturing Intangibles in the Learning Environment

Doing No Harm: Taking Care of Number One Revisited

Proactive Administration: Closing the Credibility Gap

A Student's Eye-View of Education's Decline and Fall

School Policy and Practice as It Affects the Student Underclass

Essay Collection-1





EduQuotables and Visions

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and injustice. (Robert F. Kennedy)

Inspiring Quotations (Collection-1)
Inspirational "EduQuotables" gathered for this website
Inspiring Quotations (Collection-2)
More "EduQuotables" gathered for this website
Visions for Continuing Education
Visions for Education (including interviews)











U.S. Department of Education Home Page
Programs, services, news, research, statistics, links, etc.
National Library of Education Home Page
Main federal resource center for education information
U.S. Network for Education Information (USNEI)
USNEI's Web site for U.S. education information
U.S. Network for Education Information (USNEI)
USNEI's Web site for education opportunities outside the U.S.
American Council on Education (ACE)
American Council on Education Homepage
Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education
League for Innovation Technology and Learning Community
Entry Point to TLC Site (open to students)
League for Innovation Publications
Community College "Learning-Centered" Publications
Association of California College Administrators
ACCCA Homepage with related links
California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office
Links to code, policy, and legal information; legislative updates
California Student Association of Community Colleges
Represents students on issues, presents student perspectives and initiatives
California Education Code
California Education Code, Chapter 3: Adult Education
Library Internet Access
San Diego Public Library Internet Access Services
San Diego County Office of Education
Educational Resources and Information Technology
San Diego Metropolitan Transit Home Page
Bus routes and schedules for the greater San Diego area
Caltrans SmarTraveler
Public transit in San Diego County
Web San Diego
Colleges and misc. information for residents and visitors to San Diego
EdWeb
Exploring Technology and School Reform
EdWeb Recommended Lists
E-mail discussion lists and electronic journals
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Vital issues affecting education such as governance, use of IT, etc.
Home For Wisdom
Indexed data base of personal quotations (very easy to add your own)
Dictionary of Quotations
A large indexed and searchable data base of quotations
Center for Critical Thinking
Resources and information for teaching critical thinking
The Bully at Work
BullyBusters: The Campaign Against Workplace Bullying
Workplace Bullying
Definition of the Phenomena
Recovery from Workplace Bullying
Inspiration for recovery and prevention
Activist San Diego
Info and events of interest to progressive organizations and individuals
Adversity.Net
A controversial site dealing with preferential treatment issues






"What will the next 40 years bring for UCSD? Langley said the university intends to focus on three 'revolutions"--communications, the sciences of life, genetics, and biology, and social studies--which it sees as life changing and history making in the future. "The intersections of those three revolutions work hand-in-hand,' he pointed out, "'understanding how to communicate bnetter with one another, understanding the building blocks of life, and, finally, understanding social changes. Californ;ia is one of the richest domains you could imagine for the study of social sciences.'"
(Quoting Jim Langley, UCSD's vice-chancellor of external relations, La Jolla Light, 18 January 2001)



UCSD Home Page
Online information for the University of California at San Diego
UCSD Principles of Community
Policies and practices of the University of California at San Diego
UCSD Colleges
UCSD Colleges (Revelle, Muir, Marshall, Warren, Roosevelt)
UCSD Libraries
UCSD Library locations and other library-related information
UCSD Social Science and Humanities Library
UCSD SSHL (Geisel) Library Hours
UCSD Division of Social Sciences
Social Sciences Division Information for the University of California at San Diego
UCSD Psychology Department
Academic Psychology programs, directories for faculty, grad students, and staff
UCSD Sociology Department
Academic Sociology programs, directories for faculty, grad students, and staff
UCSD Recreation
Registration, programs, phone numbers, etc
UCSD Division of Student Affairs
Does this lackluster web page reflect an unprogressive state of student affairs?
UCSD Student Affairs
Student Affairs Departments, Units, and Programs (Shouldn't students deserve better?}
UCSD Newspaper: GUARDIAN online
The official student newspaper for the University of California at San Diego
UCSD Che Cafe
Student-run vegetarian eatery and music venue
UCSD Food Co-op
Student-run natural food co-op (homey environment for vegetarian meals, and snacks)









SDCCD Educational Master Plan
Guiding philosophy of the San Diego Community College District (LIP SERVICE, Part 1)
SDCCD Mission Statement
San Diego Community College District Mission Statement (LIP SERVICE, Part 2))
SDCCD Student Rights and Responsibilities/Student Organizations
Info about SDCCD Policy 3100 and Manual 3200
SDCCD Mission Statement
Mission Statement, Shared Values, and Goals
San Diego Community College District (Phone Numbers)
SDCCD Continuing Education (various campuses)
MORE EDUCATION LINKS
More education links, including SDCCD's Business Information Technology Program
SDCCD Course Tools
Multimedia applications, classes, announcements, inspiration, links, etc.
The New Media Center
Interactive site with forums, on-line courses, and much more ("getting started")
Gini Pedersen's Home Page
Online tutorials, webmaster resources, student web pages
"The Starting Line" Home Page
Learning the Internet, on-line tutorials, resources, etc.
Datel Computer Class Schedule
Free introductory computer classes in the Kearney Mesa area
Regional Occupational Program (ROP)
Tuition-free job training courses through the public school system









BE AWARE

Excellence has no fear of observation,
but neither does mediocrity
so long as it can present a
"credible" facade.



When administrators act with impunity
student well-being takes a dive.



THE SPECTRUM OF CONTINUING EDUCATION

Computer technology itself clearly demonstrates that there are many different means and diverse applications which may be tapped to reach agreed upon goals. Our own human diversity is enhanced by exploring technological options with our uniqueness as individuals in mind.

KEEPING LOVE IN THE
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LOOP

Musings on Information Technology Use

HOMESCHOOLING OUR HEART ensures that love guides information technology use decisions. When our choices originate from below the heart — institutions are hard-pressed to ensure a degree of civil sanity and become "stressed out" themselves — administrating between and among inevitable conflicts.

Without education occurring at the heart — and higher levels — educational advancement becomes less intuitive and more formulaic — often closely tied to simply where the money is. This contributes to the politicizing of educational trends — leaving love and higher intuition increasingly "out of the loop." With the truest education increasingly co-opted, subverted or marginalized — education as an industry can expand while deeper truths are ignored and real educational community is imperiled.

Does resistance to heartfelt innovation within our institutions persist from our having unlearned love to the point of no return? Too often our hearts are the lonliest educators of all. Our hearts "all-ways" belong in the information technology loop, for in following our heartsong we are more likely to make earth-friendly decisions as well.

We must learn to live life so that our heart maintains a very bright core in it. Through love we can all have a starring role in humanity's continuing education. Information technology (IT), alone, will leave our heart hungry, and our humanity imperiled.

Our hearts do not have a monopoly on love — but they can let us know whether love is in our communication or left out of IT! What IT serves is up to each of us . . . down to the last mouse-click.





"Action is the anecdote for despair —
especially action we all can live with."



DAVID AND GOLIATH


Can a chancellor of a large community college district be responsive to
individual students who address issues and refuse to be brushed off or ignored?







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