More than 1,700 tickets to the Ke$ha concert scheduled for Oct. 25 in Leverone Field House were sold online Monday, according to Programming Board concert chair Amaris Galea-Orbe '11. Galea-Orbe said she expected tickets to sell out before they are made available to graduate students, staff, faculty and the public at higher prices on Oct. 11. Dartmouth students can purchase tickets through the online vendor UniversityTickets. Although students are charged an additional $1.50 transaction fee per order under the new system, Galea-Orbe said buying tickets online is preferable to waiting on long lines, which was common for previous Programming Board Concerts.
President Barack Obama unveiled a new national program on Monday that aims to improve community college curricula to correspond with the skills students will need for future employment, The New York Times reported. The Aspen Institute, an international non-profit research organization, will coordinate the program and collaborate with companies including Gap Inc., Accenture, United Technologies, PG&E and McDonald's. The initiative seeks to build on previously-established training programs, which many workers argue do not provide individuals with applicable job skills. Although White House officials have stated that there are no plans to apply government money to the initiative, they do plan to establish a task force with representatives from several government agencies. The announcement of the initiative will be followed by the first White House Summit on Community Colleges on Tuesday.
Both Harvard and Brown Universities recently accepted donations for humanities research, Inside Higher Ed reported. On Saturday, Brown announced a $3 million gift to support a new program that would fund the recruitment of six new senior scholars and the addition of multi-year research seminars, according to a press release from the University. On Monday, Harvard announced a $10 million gift the largest gift to support the humanities in the University's history to support interdisciplinary collaboration at its Humanities Center, according to the Harvard Gazette. The gifts are noteworthy not because of their size, but because of their emphasis on the humanities, according to Inside Higher Ed.
