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Ken Goulding's picture

Prioritizer

By Ken Goulding posted on Tue, 2010-10-05 16:00 , 360 reads, 0 comments

The prioritizer lets you rank projects by how well they contribute to a list of goals. Each project is assigned a score for each goal and goals can be weighted by importance.

 

Projects can be selected from the ranked list and then placed on a timeline. The timeline automatically tracks available funds and project sequencing requirements and shows flags when it detects a problem.

 

Flash SWF File: 
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Prioritizer2_controller.swf

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Chris Hodges's picture

Taxes on Student Tuition - Good or Bad Policy?

By Chris Hodges posted on Wed, 2009-12-16 13:07 , 254 reads, 0 comments
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/16/education/16coll...

The City of Pittsburgh is planning to add a 1% tax to student tuitions to pay for employee pensions. There are about 10 reasons why this is a bad idea, and 10 why it's a good idea. And about 50 unintended consequences.

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Ken Goulding's picture

Finally - Google Street View on a College Campus!

By Ken Goulding posted on Thu, 2009-08-20 14:36 , 575 reads, 3 comments
http://tinyurl.com/nknalz

Google Street View gives us an unprecedented ability to understand what spaces feel like on the ground (while providing the context of a map). Until now, college campuses have appeared as large holes in the Street View data. Over the past few months, Google bikes have been spotted traversing a number of college campus, and just this week, Google finally added their first campus to Street View: San Diego State University (SDSU).

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Janne Corneil's picture

Learning OUTSIDE the Classroom...

By Janne Corneil posted on Tue, 2009-08-04 11:07 , 282 reads, 0 comments

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Peter Brigham's picture

Stimulus funds + Community Colleges

By Peter Brigham posted on Fri, 2009-07-17 14:11 , 286 reads, 0 comments
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/opinion/17brooks...

With our recent work at Lorain Community College and in the Massachusetts community colleges, this NY Times opinion piece caught my eye.  The Stimulus package includes $12 billion plan aimed at producing 5 million more community college grads by 2020. The logic of the targeted funding appeals to me: an emphasis on education and a sector that has been long ignored.  Mr.read more


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Chris Hodges's picture

"Recession Strategy" plans for schools?

By Chris Hodges posted on Tue, 2009-07-14 18:09 , 189 reads, 2 comments

 

 

Interesting story. Public school gets slammed with applicants, wants to first maintain quality and then gradually expand. Read the article Well-Regarded Public Colleges Get a Surge of Bargain Hunters from the NY Times featuring SUNY New Paltz, where Sasaki is currently starting a Landscape Master Plan for the campus.

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The Use of Native Plants on the University Campus.

By Jesse Markman posted on Tue, 2009-07-14 12:10 , 574 reads, 3 comments

An interesting article regarding the use of native plants on College campuses was recently forwarded to me by Beth Foster: Going Native: Rooting Campus Landscape Planning in Low-Energy Native Plants.

 

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