Live Podcast: Dr. Christian Kopff – Intro to the Bible
Please join us at our new time – 5PM Mountain – this Wednesday on Blog Talk Radio, when Dr. Christian Kopff will talk with Dr. Bishirjian about his Yorktown University course, Intro to the Bible.
E. Christian Kopff, Ph.D was educated at St. Paul’s School (Garden City, NY), Haverford College (B.A., summa cum laude) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (PhD, Classics). He teaches Introduction to the Bible at Yorktown University. That course is one of ten Core courses in a required curriculum that every baccalaureate degree candidate at Yorktown University must complete.
Dr. Kopff is editor of a critical edition of the Greek text of Euripides’ Bacchae (Teubner, 1982) and author of over 100 articles and reviews on scholarly, pedagogical and popular topics. He currently works with the Classics Department of the University of Urbino, Italy on ancient Greek lyric poetry.
He is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and Associate Director of the Honors Program at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
Introduction to the Bible approaches a reading of the Bible in the context of companion civilizations of the ancient Near East and looks at its subject with five goals in mind:
- The Bible as historical growth and divine revelation
- The role of covenant and Kingdom in Biblical history
- Prophecy as movement and literary genre
- The genres of the Bible: folk tale, history, poetry, prophecy, gospel apocalyptic
- The relationship of the Hebrew Bible to the New Testament
You’ll be able to listen here by clicking on the player below. If you’d like to join in the chats, you’ll need to register for a Blog Talk Radio listener account. If you are a Blog Talk Radio member, be sure to add Yorktown-University to your favorites.
CCAP’s ‘Chart of the Week’ 01/12/08
According to the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, the downward trend exhibited in the graph is indicative of:
a) lower enrollments
b) a greater number of senior administrators, or
c) a combination of the two.
For more info, see the Center for College Affordability and Productivity.
Entrepreneurs create jobs!
Forbes.com is reporting this week that typically, start-up business does not suffer as much of a decline in a recession, and that the current unemployment rates my result in a boom in start-ups.
Read more on Forbes.com: Employment Engine
Students Paying ‘More for Less’ in Higher Ed
InsideHigherEd.com has information today on a report released by the Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity, and Accountability which shows that students are paying more of the cost of their educational costs, although the schools are paying less for delivering the courses. The Study finds that tuition increases do not tranlate into improved instruction.
“The public’s got it exactly right,” said Jane Wellman, head of the Delta Project. “They are jacking up tuition, and they’re not re-investing it in quality.”
There’s plenty of blame to go around, however, for this predicament. With state support waning for public colleges, rising tuition dollars are merely being used to make up for lost revenue — not for hiring more faculty or taking other steps that would arguably improve classroom instruction, the report asserts. On the other hand, the Delta Project suggests that colleges haven’t made the hard choices required for adapting to lower subsidies, as evidenced by relatively small changes in spending levels…Continue reading on InsideHigerEd.com >>
Update: Podcast Changed to Thurs January 15th: ‘The Progressives,’ by Dr. Gregory Browne
Update: In a special Thursday Podcast, Dr. Gregory Browne, of Yorktown University will be discussing ‘The Progressives,’ with Dr. Bishirjian at 4PM Mountain Time on BlogTalkRadio.
During this era, America saw the beginnings of federal regulation of business through the regulatory commissions and antitrust laws, the income tax, the Federal Reserve Board, federal regulation of alcohol, drafting men to fight overseas, and more. The enactment of these policies in the same period is not an accident. All of them increased the role of government in society and were intended to do so, as the outcome of the rise of statist political philosophies across the Western world. Statist political ideas and movements, especially those of the egalitarian variety, gathered momentum in the period 1870-1900 and became strongest in the period from 1900 to World War I, challenging the Founders’ doctrine of limited government.
This course will delve into the era’s history. Students will look at various types of Progressives, the growth of Progressive ideology, and its opposition to the philosophy of limited government.
Gregory Browne was born in Ohio and grew up in Michigan. He had many interests as he proceeded through his school years, including political science, history, philosophy, economics, anthropology, biology, and astronomy. In the 10th grade, he decided that he was most interested in the social sciences, especially political science.
As graduation approached, he was awarded a National Merit scholarship, and decided to attend Michigan State University. He had intended to major in political science, but then he found out about the University’s James Madison College, an interdisciplinary social sciences program. So he chose to major in that, specializing in their “Justice, Morality and Constitutional Democracy” core, i.e., political philosophy. However, since he still planned to do his graduate work in political science, he eventually took that subject as a second major.
He received his bachelor’s degree in his two majors in 1979, and as time went on he realized that he was most interested in political history. Since that subject is usually covered by history departments rather than by political science departments, he changed his major to history in 1981. After a year in the doctoral program in history at the University of Michigan, during which he took some courses in intellectual history and ran up against a number of philosophical issues, he changed his major to philosophy and returned to Michigan State in 1985.
While maintaining his interest in political philosophy and its foundations in ethics, he acquired a deep interest in metaphysics and epistemology, which became his area of concentration in this field. He received his doctorate in 1994.
After receiving his degree, Dr. Browne taught philosophy at two Michigan community colleges through the year 2000. He has been teaching part-time for Central Michigan University in their College of Extended Learning, and adapted the core of his dissertation into a book, Necessary Factual Truth, which was published by University Press of America at the end of 2000. Dr. Browne teaches “The Progressive Era” at Yorktown University.
You’ll be able to listen here by clicking on the player below. If you’d like to join in the chats, you’ll need to register for a Blog Talk Radio listener account. If you are a Blog Talk Radio member, be sure to add Yorktown-University to your favorites.
Podcast Wednesday, JAN 14th: ‘Marketing as a Career’ with Dr. Lew Pringle
On Wednesday, at 4PM Mountain, Dr. Lewis Pringle will be speaking with Dr. Bishirjian on “Marketing as a Career,” on Blog Talk Radio.
Dr. Lewis Pringle is Dean of the School of Business at Yorktown University and professor of marketing. He teaches two marketing courses at Yorktown University and courses in Statistics. Dr. Pringle earned his undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Harvard, a Masters in Business from MIT, and a doctorate at MIT with specialization in statistics and operations research.
He taught briefly at Carnegie Mellon University before launching a successful career as a marketing professional with BBDO, a Manhattan based advertising company. At BBDO, Dr. Pringle was first given responsibility for quantitative methods and then for all research conducted by the agency, on behalf of clients and otherwise, outside the New York Company. In addition, he became responsible for BBDO’s Marketing Department, Information Center as well as the training of young account executives within the agency. Then, in 1978, Lew was named Director of Research Services for all of BBDO Worldwide.
Dr. Pringle was named Chairman/CEO of BBDO Europe and, from his base in the U.K., assumed responsibility for BBDO’s interests in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. At the time, the agency’s Capitalized Sales were $550,000,000. During his four years tenure in this position, those sales tripled to over $1,600,000,000.
After retiring from BBDO Dr. Pringle accepted a Chaired Professorship at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. In that capacity, he taught, several times, the Capstone Course in Marketing Strategy as well as several courses in Market Research.
He lives in Liberty, Indiana.
You’ll be able to listen here by clicking on the player below. If you’d like to join in the chats, you’ll need to register for a Blog Talk Radio listener account. If you are a Blog Talk Radio member, be sure to add Yorktown-University to your favorites.
Podcast January 7th – Dr. Michael Sanera of Yorktown U.
Dr. Michael Sanera of Yorktown University will be talking today with Dr. Bishirjian about how public administration will be taught in a course taught by the person who created the personnel policies of the Reagan Administration.
Dr. Michael Sanera, developer of a new course in public administration, was a tenured associate professor of political science and public administration at Northern Arizona University (NAU) where he served for seventeen years. He was the founding director of NAU’s Master In Public Administration (MPA) program and developed an innovative weekend seminar program (before Internet learning) for working public managers in Northern Arizona. This program served the diverse community of public administrators in Northern Arizona including city and county managers, federal park service and forest service managers, state fish and game and land management managers and tribal managers from the Navajo and Hopi nations.
In the early 1980s, Dr. Sanera served as a political appointee in the Reagan administration. He was the Assistant Director for Policy and Evaluation at the Office of Personnel Management, the “personnel office” for three million federal civilian workers. In this position he evaluated all proposed changes in federal personnel policy including examinations, hiring, retirement, pay, health care, and discipline. In addition, he served as a consultant at the U.S. Department of Education reviewing the department’s grant programs. His recommendations for tightening controls saved federal taxpayers millions of dollars.
In the mid 1980s, Dr. Sanera developed and implemented the Executive Development Program for The Heritage Foundation. This program conducted educational seminars designed to increase the policy-making effectiveness of senior political managers in the Reagan Administration.
Dr. Sanera contributed chapters on managing the federal bureaucracy in the Heritage Foundation’s Mandate for Leadership II. Portions of those chapters will be required reading in Dr. Sanera’s Public Administration course at Yorktown University.
At this same time, he was also a frequent speaker at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s Executive Development Seminar program in Denver that provided senior level career employees with advanced public management skills. Dr. Sanera’s presentation focused on the special (sometimes conflicting) relationship between political and career executives in the executive branch.
You’ll be able to listen here by clicking on the player below. If you’d like to join in the chats, you’ll need to register for a Blog Talk Radio listener account. If you are a Blog Talk Radio member, be sure to add Yorktown-University to your favorites.
Check out ‘Plan of Study’
At Yorktown University’s Don’t Quit U., we like to provide great resources elsewhere on the web for you to check out. Here is one such resource: Plan of Study – College Q&A and Other Topics Related to Higher Education.
Also, follow them on Twitter, @planofstudy. (Also, while you’re there, be sure to follow us, @dontquitu)
Salaries in Higher Ed Increasing Faster than other Industries
This chart, from the Center for College Affordability:
“…shows the annual percentage salary increase of college presidents, instructors and all working Americans. Over the previous three years, the average salary of college presidential salaries has risen much more quickly than that of college instructors and all American workers.”
