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Make learning a foreign language your New Year’s resolution
Whatever your reasons may be, learning a new language benefits your personal and professional life, sometimes in ways you can’t even imagine.
December 16, 2013
Health is global: 'I've seen the poverty, I've felt the pain'
Reyes is excited about turning her compassion into a new UC San Diego Extension course, “Introduction to Public Health and Global Issues,” slated to start Jan. 7, 2014.
December 16, 2013
Historical study reveals five characteristics necessary for cities to prosper in 21st century
The Evolution of San Diego's Innovation Economy," a newly published book that traces one city's changing sociological, political and economic trends, dating from the 1880s through contemporary times and beyond.
December 15, 2013
The next step forward for college counseling
As relatively new professions head toward maturity, they tend to find themselves enwrapped in what one might best characterize as a ‘midlife crisis’ in establishing a unique identity. This rings particularly true with those in which the ends of the continuum are quite well defined but the middle...
December 6, 2013
Project #1: The making of a music video
Students in UC San Diego Extension's Video Production and Editing Professional Certificate program recently completed their first major project: a music video. Students, who have only been enrolled in the program for six weeks, formed their own production teams to shoot the videos, and then each...
November 11, 2013
Ethics Center presents researcher Kurzrock: 'Winning the war against cancer in the genomics era...'
As cancer research continues to make exponential strides toward a cure, there’s an equal urgency for personalized clinical trials that match patients with cutting-edge treatments, techniques and procedures.
November 6, 2013
Paying tribute to a brief and shining moment: One educator’s perspective
As the end of November heralds the 50th anniversary of the end of Camelot — an era popularly characterized by optimism; future think; space flight and the idea of American exceptionalism, one might wonder whether we have seen the end of unbridled exhilaration in the modern era.
November 4, 2013
Algae-to-energy expert says fracking is fraud
Thanks to an innovative program led by Professor Stephen Mayfield, in partnership with UC San Diego Extension, workers are being retrained for the new green economy.
October 30, 2013
Takin’ it to the streets: Upcoming Education Department presentations
Fidelity to the tri-fold mission of the University of California means disseminating the results of action research and reflective best practices with our varied constituencies across the state or across the nation. Whether this is in the form of presentations to school districts, parents groups...
October 19, 2013
You talkin’ to me? Leveraging reflective practice in P-12 using guided conversations
The use of reflective teaching as a means to address the increasingly complex cognitive and affective needs of P-12 pupils is nothing new in education. One wonders what sort of conversations took place between Plato and Aristotle — ‘no, naming the Academy after yourself isn’t arrogant, after all,...
October 11, 2013
You'll never walk alone: One step forward and two steps back — to school
"You’ll Never Walk Alone" is a song from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical Carousel, popularized by Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and later Gerry and the Pacemakers. Beginning in the early 1960s, the song took a turn toward anthem, symbolizing camaraderie and cooperative effort against a common...
September 15, 2013
Recalculating: The next step in your career
You may not know her by face, but her voice is instantly recognizable. Known as The GPS Girl, Jacobsen’s speaking voice is in over 100 million GPS units giving drivers directions worldwide as “Australian Karen.” “You could say I specialize in telling people ‘where to go,’” says Jacobsen, an...
September 15, 2013
The top 7 careers in brewing
With over 2,500 breweries nationwide, craft brewing has become a booming, multi-billion dollar industry. But you don’t have to know how to brew beer to fit in. The key to a career in this thriving business is to match your existing skill set with the various positions necessary to make a brewery...
September 8, 2013
Who are you? Divining identity in a brave new world of continuing education
The current piece of writing is inspired by a listen to Pete Townshend’s hard-driven and introspective musical query from 1978. It also represents a somewhat well-thought response to prospective students who have requested general commentary on what distinguishes the Education Department at UC...
September 7, 2013
Location, location, location: The primacy of context in teacher education
‘Location, location, location’ is a mantra common among estate agents across the globe, underscoring and broadcasting the most significant elements inherent to one plot of land or another. Be it a scenic beachfront vista, vast desert expanse or tucked-in urban enclave, there is something to be...
September 5, 2013
Taking translation to the next level
Gabriela Vasallo decided to expand her skill set and build a solid foundation in by enrolling in the UC San Diego Extension Translation & Interpretation (Spanish/English) certificate program so she could meet the specific needs of her clients in the legal field.
September 3, 2013
Genomatica's Jeff Lievense to speak at Microbial Fermentation Workshop
UC San Diego Extension is excited to announce that Jeff Lievense, Executive Vice President of Process Technology at Genomatica, will be a guest speaker at the three-day Microbial Fermentation Workshop running from August 21 to 23.
August 19, 2013
In memoriam: Reed Cardwell
UC San Diego Extension art instructor Reed Cardwell passed away due to a long illness on Sunday, July 14, 2013. In addition to teaching, Reed worked as an animation artist for Walt Disney Feature Animation in Burbank for six years.
August 19, 2013
Advocates for teacher quality: Understanding cycles of accreditation in California
A recent report released by the National Council on Teacher Quality suggests that postsecondary institutions charged with the preparation of teachers have, in large part, failed the American public.
August 18, 2013
School ‘Haus’ Rock: What 21st-century education can learn from early German modernists
In its promotion of free flow of ideas; process; choice and freedom of expression, the Bauhaus served as precursor to modernism of the 1960s; Brutalism; and the design postulates associated with Camelot and the jet/atomic age.
August 12, 2013
Educators: Taking the next steps together
One of the weightiest challenges faced by postsecondary institutions involved in the professional preparation of K-12 educators as been striking a careful balance between theory and practice.
August 8, 2013
Untying the ‘Core’-dian Knot
In Greek legend, the Gordian knot was tied in a manner so complex that it mentally exhausted those seeking to untangle it and eventually to divine unique solutions to do so.
August 1, 2013
Focus on instructors: George Haloulakos
“Everyone asks me how to get started in the investment finance business and I tell them, it is different for each person. There is no formula or secret. If the timing is right, and you are ready for it, something can happen.”
July 22, 2013
Instructor spotlight: Karen Young
I have been amazed by the excitement and ingenuity I have experienced as an Extension Instructor. I have taught and developed courses at the University of California, San Diego for five years. In addition to my teaching at UC San Diego, I have also taught in both the brick and mortar classroom as...
July 21, 2013