Walter Hutchens’ Blog

• Searching for “Chinese” on YouTube stumbled upon Russell Peters clips. Funny, talented guy! Bollywood, emigrant exp, ethnicity. Mostly clean #
• Working on paper for “visioning” process for our business school. Makes me blurry eyed. #
• China’s SEC-like CSRC has issued IPO regs for Nasdaq-like market for SME, high tech cos. Titled 首次公开发行股票并在创业板上市管理暂行办法, effective 5/1. #
• PRC English paper calling the new market (创业板) the Growth Enterprise Board or GEB http://tinyurl.com/df8wrx #
• Hong Kong’s second board called Growth Enterprise Market or GEM. Chinese name (创业板 )SAME! GEM sounds better than GEB! http://www.hkgem.com/ #
• Wouldn’t “Hong Kong GEM” & “Mainland GEM” (or “Shenzhen GEM”) work better than “GEM” & “GEB?” Perhaps “Chasdaq?” #
• Chinese portal Sina has website on GEB (which I want to rename Chasdaq or Mainland GEM) http://tinyurl.com/d62opp #
• Great old photos of Beijing (& trip there) from 1904 book by German photographer http://bit.ly/jfxf6 #
• Maybe M&A of small colleges will become a legal specialty? http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/05/06/waldorf #
• New program in Maryland to train Mandarin teachers for grades 7-12, grant from PRC, leads to teaching master’s deg http://tinyurl.com/c69fj2 #
• Elizabet Economy on environment in China @ USC http://tinyurl.com/c8fy5m #
• Annual report of for-profit ed corp. based in Singapore & listed there: http://bit.ly/33YWN #
• Media & China scholar Rebecca MacKinnon talks w/ PRC “Anti-CNN” group http://tinyurl.com/dlmbx2 Audio @ http://tinyurl.com/on83fn (中) #
• James Fallows post on is China’s ed system a threat to us or to them, rounding up some recent PRC & US articles: http://tinyurl.com/c2h7px #
• Going green in US can poison some Chinese workers: http://www.iftf.org/node/2768 #
• Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia: http://www.csr-asia.com/ #
• Academic career coach: http://successfulacademic.typepad.com/ Hmmm. Maybe I need one! #
• Students using tech to be “free agent learners.” Makes sense. RT @willrich45 Looking at http://bit.ly/S5fjQ #
• Stumbled upon roundup of ways to exceed Twitter’s 140-char limit http://bit.ly/TctsR #
• Yeah I’ve got 3 rows of tabs open, but after Firefox crashed too many times I d’loaded beta 3.54 which is allegedly more stable. We’ll see. #
• After each auto-save GoogleDocs inserts space after footnote marker. Unwanted spaces appear; I delete them; they reappear. Arghh. Known bug. #
• I’m DONE w/ strategic planning input: 4k words on future of business ed @ Whitworth; 2k words on future of grad, prof & non-trad programs. #
• Wash Post columnist lauds Aplia learning software. Interesting. http://tinyurl.com/p5e5sj #
• GREAT Mother’s Day commentary from NPR’s Scott Simon: http://bit.ly/dYujg #

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