Jesse Kimbrel (Spartan Daily): “There are currently nine general education advisers at SJSU to meet the needs of roughly 30,000 students. Cindy Kato, director of academic advising and retention services, said the university needs more advisers, but there is an ‘advising council with five Task Forces that are exploring ways to improve advising.’ She said, ‘Our unit is in the process of hiring two more advisers, and we expect to expand our online advising capability.’” (“Advising could get boost, lacks staff,”19 March 2008)
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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" (





