next decade, this 30 million will grow to 100 million. To meet this staggering demand, a major university needs to be created each week" (1996). 
"Our ancestors sailed across a vast ocean, one third of the earth's surface, and to accomplish this great feat they needed the vision to see islands over the horizon, the ability to plan intentional voyages of discovery, the discipline to train physically and mentally, the courage to take risks, and a deep sense of aloha to bind the crew together during the voyage. These are Hawaiian values but they are also universal values. They worked in the past and they will work today" (
instead of seeking radically new opportunities to develop school-as-it-can-be" (Seymour Papert and Gaston Caperton, in 
matter. What matters to me is the determined space and time where determined tasks are accomplished. Social historical and political tasks, not only individual ones. . . . The two main tasks of the school: to get the already known knowledge and to produce the knowledge not yet in existence" (In Seymour Papert's 
and to consider the action of others to give point and direction to his own, is equivalent to breaking down barriers of class, race, and national territory which kept men from perceiving the full import of their activity" (
CruiserAlert™ “is a Web-based high-priority and emergency alert system that enables campus administrators to contact people on and off campus in an urgent situation. . . . In addition to broadcasting information via SMS text message to mobile devices, the service simultaneously directs the message to email, portal-wide announcements, system headlines, RSS feeds and voice messaging. Students, faculty, and staff are strongly encouraged to activate their CruiserAlert accounts and subscribe to alert channels and select their preferred methods of delivery.” (“College of DuPage Adopts CruiserAlertTM as New Emergency Notification System,” Marketwire, 5 Feb 2008) For the full article, click here.
UPDATE: 2.10.08
“Nearly 17,000 Sign Up for UI [University of Illinois] Emergency Alerts,” AP in ChicagoTribune.com, 10 Feb 2008.
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