Many corporate entities may brag about retaining talented employees with perks above and beyond the standard benefits package. One sector, however, consistently offers outstanding perks to its employees yet rarely gets the press — higher education.

Bob Freeman, director of human resources for Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, IA, agrees, “After working in human resources in the business world for 17 years prior to working in the world of academia for the last two, I can state without hesitation that I have a renewed energy and passion for my profession. I owe this to the employee-friendly environment a college or university affords its employee base.”

Colleges and universities can offer a full range of unique benefits by leveraging their existing investments and translate those offerings to a positive employee experience. For the most part, these perks are not the exception, but the rule. The result is a productive workforce that easily balances work and personal life.

Here are today’s tech academic job listingsInternet Multimedia Instructional Developer, Center for Innovative Tea

Indiana University
Location: Bloomington, IN
Posted: 05/03/12
http://www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?JobCode=175625862

Web Design/MySQL Programmer (Per Diem)
Montclair State University
Location: Montclair, NJ
Posted: 05/03/12
http://www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?JobCode=175625855

Web Developer
Texas Southern University
Location: Houston, TX
Posted: 05/03/12
http://www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?JobCode=175625843

Associate Business Intelligence Developer ( JOB# 50045)
The University of Arizona
Location: Tucson, AZ
Posted: 05/03/12
http://www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?JobCode=175625827

Lead Web Specialist
Broward College
Location: Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Posted: 05/03/12
http://www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?JobCode=175625756

Web Developer
Roger Williams University
Location: Bristol, RI
Posted: 05/03/12
http://www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?JobCode=175625603

Web Content Manager
Stony Brook University
Location: Stony Brook, NY
Posted: 05/03/12
http://www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?JobCode=175625602

Lead Software Applications Developer
Texas A&M University
Location: College Station, TX
Posted: 05/03/12
http://www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?JobCode=175625552

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• Today is Star Wars Day – May the 4th Be With You
• Yahoo shareholder Dan Loeb says Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson lied on his resume.
• First, Yahoo said the whole thing was an “inadvertent mistake,” but no one bought that…
• …So now Yahoo’s board is reviewing the problem.
• Of course, the board only has itself to blame, after hiring Thompson in a very strange way.
• The Facebook IPO roadshow is out!
• Facebook is seeking a valuation between $60 billion and $75 billion, much lower than expected.
• Zuckerberg will sell $1 billion worth of stock in the deal. (Mostly to pay taxes.)
• LinkedIn bought SlideShare for $119 million.
• LinkedIn also delivered a very strong earnings report yesterday.
• Your old Gmail is gone forever, by the way.

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Build Your Own Model

Stardust is the first U.S. space mission dedicated solely to the exploration of a comet, and the first robotic mission designed to return extraterrestrial material from outside the orbit of the Moon.

The Stardust spacecraft was launched on February 7, 1999, from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, aboard a Delta II rocket. The primary goal of Stardust is to collect dust and carbon-based samples during its closest encounter with Comet Wild 2 – pronounced “Vilt 2″ after the name of its Swiss discoverer – a rendezvous took place in January 2004, after nearly four years of space travel.

Additionally, the Stardust spacecraft brought back samples of interstellar dust, including recently discovered dust streaming into our Solar System from the direction of Sagittarius. These materials are believed to consist of ancient pre-solar interstellar grains and nebular that include remnants from the formation of the Solar System. Analysis of such fascinating celestial specks is expected to yield important insights into the evolution of the Sun its planets and possibly even the origin of life itself.

Stardust Microchips

During October-November, 1997, NASA had the first name collection and the names were etched on the microchip in December 1997. The microchip was inserted inside the Sample Return Capsule where it currently resides. A second copy of the chip was placed on the spacecraft body. A second name collection effort was performed from May-August 1998. The second microchip is located on the back of the arm holding the dust collector for the chip to reside.

Two copies of each chip were installed on the spacecraft (for a total of four chips). Two of the microchips (#1 & #2) are inside the Sample Return Capsule, and was returned back to Earth with the capsule when it landed in Utah on January 15, 2006. The capsule along with the microchips have been transported to the curation facility at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on January 17, 2006, where they currently reside. The other two copied microchips are on the spacecraft body and will remain in space forever.

My name is on Microchip #2 and will remain in space forever. I just hope an alien species doesn’t take the name as part of an “eatable”, “slave worthy” or “kill first” list.  Just wondering does it mean I am an Astronaut or just my name?

May The Fourth Be With You

“So your little son starts to act a little girlish when he is four years old and instead of squashing that like a cockroach and saying, ‘Man up, son, get that dress off you and get outside and dig a ditch, because that is what boys do,’ you get out the camera and you start taking pictures of Johnny acting like a female and then you upload it to YouTube and everybody laughs about it and the next thing you know, this dude, this kid is acting out childhood fantasies that should have been squashed.”

“Can I make it any clearer? Dads, the second you see your son dropping the limp wrist, you walk over there and crack that wrist. Man up. Give him a good punch. Ok? You are not going to act like that. You were made by God to be a male and you are going to be a male.”

“And when your daughter starts acting to Butch you reign her in. And you say, ‘Oh, no, sweetheart. You can play sports. Play them to the glory of God. But sometimes you are going to act like a girl and walk like a girl and talk like a girl and smell like a girl and that means you are going to be beautiful. You are going to be attractive. You are going to dress yourself up.’”

“Can I take charge like that as a parent? Yeah, you can. You are authorized. I just gave you a special dispensation this morning to do that.”

via Good As You

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• Google isn’t the only big company trying to take on Dropbox. Amazon just launched a free Cloud Drive app for Mac.

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