Inside College Hockey was the first to report yesterday that Penn State will formally announce their intention to start a hockey program, possibly as early as this Friday.

I already covered this issue over the summer, so it’s probably not worth rehashing until we get some new information of what the future holds.

Other people are writing about it though. USCHO columnist Dave Starman thinks Penn State would be good, if they wanted to join the CCHA, but bad if it meant the creation of a Big Ten conference. Also, his proposed WCHA-CCHA alliance seems pretty wacky. The solution to whatever financial troubles those smaller schools will face won’t be solved by increasing travel expenses exponentially. College Hockey News thinks a Big Ten Conference is inevitable, though not necessarily a disaster.

The reaction from the Penn State side of things has been general excitement, and why wouldn’t it be? Before even being announced, their hockey program has already succeeded where their treasured football program has failed in defeating a school from Alabama.

It will fuel the debate over funding arrangements in Scotland, with higher education institutions warning they face slashing budgets by up to 25 per cent in the light of looming spending cuts.

The Scottish Executive last night said participation rates among those from poorer backgrounds had increased when colleges are included, and ministers are committed to providing ‘free’ education.

But the Scottish Tories, who are holding a conference on the issue next week, argued university funding was reaching crisis point and principals must be allowed to levy graduates earning a good salary.

Professor Brian Ramsden, the former chief executive of the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), who wrote the report, said he was “surprised” by its findings.

But he recalled research he conducted in England, where £3,000 tuition fees for all students were introduced in 2006.

“There was a blip (in those attending university) in the year following the introduction of tuition fees,” said the professor, who graduated from the University of Edinburgh.

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The AD Williams Committee allocates funds to award to faculty within the Schools of the MCV campus to recognize achievements in research. The recipients of this year’s awards in the School of Nursing are:

Dr. Lisa Brown, – New Investigator Award Dr. Debra Lyon – Exceptional Researcher Award

Dr. Brown is an associate professor in the Department of Family and Community Health Nursing. Her research focuses on mother’s attention during preterm infant feeding. Dr. Lyon is chair of the VCU School of Nursing’s Department of Family and Community Health Nursing and a VCU alumna. Her research focus includes symptom management in women with breast cancer and complementary and alternative therapies for symptom management.

Congratulations to Drs. Brown and Lyon on their achievements in their research developments.

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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Ryan Braun hit a three-run homer and the Milwaukee Brewers roughed up St. Louis rookie Jaime Garcia in an 8-1 win Wednesday night that kept the slumping Cardinals from gaining ground in the postseason chase.
  
Albert Pujols hit his 36th homer in the first for the Cardinals, but that was the only run Chris Capuano (3-3) allowed over seven innings.
  
Garcia (13-7) had been looking for his fourth straight win. Instead, he gave up a career-high seven runs as his ERA rose to 2.69.

  
The Cardinals began the day six games behind Cincinnati in the NL Central. The Reds played later at Colorado.
  
St. Louis has fallen flat chasing the Reds, losing 11 of the last 15 with 25 games to go. those fo

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The “Thoughts on Public Education (TOP-Ed)” blog put out by the Silicon Valley Education Foundation had the clever idea to ask Kilian Betlach, who used to write the delightful “Teaching in the 408″ blog, to ruminate on the school reform process. Betlach, previously a seventh-grade teacher in east San Jose, has just had a jarring personal experience with school reform. He is assistant principal of a small middle school in Oakland, Elmhurst Community Prep, forced to fix itself under federal rules.

Here is how he told the tale in a guest column, “Liposuction approach to school reform,” posted Aug. 8. The point he makes about the limpness and aimlessness of what is supposed to be a tough and constructive process deserves attention. This is going on all over the country.

By Kilian Betlach

Last March, the California Department of Education released a list of “persistently low-performing schools” that would be part of the federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) process. Our

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Developmental Care of Newborns & Infants, 2nd Edition Edited by Carole Kenne, PhD RNC-NIC FAAN and Jacqueline M. McGrath, PhD RN FNAP FAAN

Developmental Care of Newborns and Infants offers evidence-based guidelines for interdisciplinary, developmentally supportive caregiving for infants and their families, beginning with contemplation of the birth and continuing through the delivery room and neonatal intensive care unit experiences, the transition to home, and the time following discharge. This groundbreaking work, now in its second edition, provides a foundation for best practices and serves as a cornerstone for NICU health professionals’ education and clinical practice.

Published August 2010