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Re:Sal Khan is Rice's Commencement Speaker Too by jflatow on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @09:03PM (#3322110)
Rice has been supporting democratized higher education for a long time, for instance with the Connexions project (http://cnx.org). They also have a history of getting interesting speakers, such as John Doerr (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zi-ThMfM4I). Not so surprising that they picked up Salman Khan this year.
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Re:Sal Khan is Rice's Commencement Speaker Too by runamok on Wednesday December 07, 2011 @05:50PM (#3326559)
I got to see Kurt Vonnegut speak at Rice in '98. That would be hard to top. http://www.vonnegutweb.com/vonnegutia/commencement/rice.html if you care to read it.
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Re:Sal Khan is Rice's Commencement Speaker Too by goberoi on Wednesday December 07, 2011 @12:18AM (#3322573)
Btw, John Doerr was a Rice grad himself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doerr
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