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  • Adviser in the Classroom

  • In which an academic adviser and political theorist tries his hand at science.
    • Seepage
    • By Dermot O'Brien March 3, 2010 3:31 pm
      • Tomorrow, it’s time for the mid-term. After doing just an hour of revision yesterday, and barely half-an-hour today, I am woefully unprepared. This does not surprise me; what surprises me is that in spending my time worrying about not studying for the exam, I am not doing all the other things that I have on my 12 item “to do” list. Ignorance, and fear of exposure, which together form a kind ...
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  • Confessions of a Community College Dean

  • In which a veteran of cultural studies seminars in the 1990’s moves into academic administration ...
    • Making It Up in Volume
    • By Dean Dad March 10, 2010 10:11 pm
      • There's a wonderful I Love Lucy episode in which Lucy and Ethel decide to go into the salad dressing business. When Ricky asks about the economics of it, Lucy responds that they lose two cents on every bottle, but they make it up in volume.This piece in IHE reminded me of that. It basically asks why colleges haven't adopted enrollment growth as an economic survival strategy.So much to say...Start ...
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  • Getting Back to #1

  • A group discussion on efforts to improve opportunities for college students.
    • The Truman Commission Redux
    • By Arthur Levine August 9, 2009 11:39 pm
      • In his previous post, Jamie Merisotis makes a compelling case for the importance of seeing American higher education in the context of higher education worldwide, and for treating our system of higher education as an imperiled competitive advantage.As Jamie notes, U.S. educational attainment “has remained flat for 40 years” -- a fact all the more worrisome in light of rising college ...
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  • Getting to Green

  • An administrator pushes, on a shoestring budget, to move his university and the world toward a more ...
    • You can't beat city hall
    • By G. Rendell March 9, 2010 8:26 pm
      • In order to address a number of Greenback U's sustainability issues, it's necessary that the campus work hand-in-hand with local governments. This was, I'm sure, part of the intent of focusing on higher education through vehicles like the ACUPCC. For instance, we can't do a whole lot about Greenback's accessibility via public transit unless we get the city, many of the surrounding towns, the ...
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  • Keywords From a Librarian

  • A librarian writes about teaching and information.
    • FUNQs: Won’t Ask, Won’t Tell
    • By Mary W. George November 1, 2009 8:59 pm
      • Today I have the urge to address a perennial, insidious, and unnecessary condition that afflicts higher education in this country. It results from the most Frequently UNasked Question (by students) that is also the most Frequently UNanswered Question (by faculty): What is a primary source?The silence surrounding this question is deafening. Undergrads are oblivious to the issue, think they already ...
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  • Mama PhD

  • Mothers attempting to balance parenthood and academics
    • ABC’s and PhD’s: Motivation
    • By Dana Campbell March 10, 2010 9:49 pm
      • I’m a great one for To Do lists. For me they work especially well when I’m organized enough to have items broken down into bite-sized projects that I can go along and knock off. When my lists are working well I rarely finish everything on it in one day. I rewrite my list and re-prioritize all the items that don’t get crossed off along with the new things that come up each night for the next ...
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  • Provost Prose

  • A provost examines the world on campus and in higher ed.
    • A Real Snow Job
    • By Herman Berliner March 7, 2010 10:32 pm
      • My kids love the snow. They can’t wait to have another snow storm after which they will spend hours snowboarding and just return home for periodic snacks and meals. My feelings are not quite as positive. I love the beauty of newly fallen snow; I hate driving in it, walking in it, and I equally hate the after snow clean up of my walkway and driveway. The more snow, often the greater the beauty ...
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  • Reality Check

  • The Reality Check blog, from John V. Lombardi, follows the endlessly fascinating parade of ...
    • Seeking Federal Support
    • By John V. Lombardi November 17, 2009 4:00 pm
      • I am having trouble signing on to the campaign to make our universities dependencies of the federal government. I want the money. I am confident that we could spend it a lot better than the bailed out banks and the rescued financial services industry. I also know that higher education is a much better investment that many other government projects.We already receive a lot of money from the ...
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  • Technology and Learning

  • A space for conversation and debate about learning and technology
    • We Need More Teachers
    • By Joshua Kim March 10, 2010 10:07 pm
      • I'm a huge believer that as many people as possible involved in higher education should teach. Administrators should teach. Librarians should teach. Technologists should teach. People who work in companies should teach. Journalists, editors, and publishers covering higher education should teach. I think more companies should follow Wimba's lead in encouraging their employees to teach. Getting ...
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  • The Education of Oronte Churm

  • Oronte Churm, lecturer in English, writes about the weird and sometimes beautiful thing we call ...
    • The Problems in Portrayal
    • By Oronte March 8, 2010 1:41 pm
      • There are many difficulties in making black squiggles on a piece of white paper meaningful, but one subset might be in using the tools of specialized literacy to portray those who do not often have the same tools.Last week my acquaintance Rory wanted to discuss his continued musings on the working class. He’d been thinking about what it means to portray in good faith the experience of, say, ...
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  • University Diaries

  • A professor of English describes American University life.
    • PROFESSORMATRONIC
    • By UD March 5, 2010 8:32 am
      • Automated Touchless Dispenser it says on the paper towel machine in the bathroom near my university office, and I sometimes think, as the mere nearness of me excites the machine's red light and white sheet, that its noli mi tangere message carries over pretty well to what's happening between professors and students these days. Teaching's becoming a germ-free, high-tech, extrusion of data. You can ...
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