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  • Adviser in the Classroom

  • In which an academic adviser and political theorist tries his hand at science.
    • The Juice
    • By Dermot O'Brien March 15, 2010 4:42 am
      • Probably inspired by O.J.’s sterling example in “If I did it,” I’ve been keeping a list of reasons why this whole enterprise won’t work, if it didn’t. Call it a kind of pre-post-hoc rationalization. I came up with several “good” reasons, or, more accurately, I adapted the list from the kinds of reasons I’ve had students offer me. 1. NYU doesn’t feel like a real university ...
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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 ...
    • Some Unabashedly Good News
    • By Dean Dad March 14, 2010 8:36 pm
      • The New Niece is here!She was born on Friday, and she's healthy and beautiful. 7 pounds, 7 ounces, all of it attitude; the doctor said that she practically walked off the delivery table.This being 2010, she's already on Facebook. (No link, obviously, to preserve pseudonymity.) There's something about seeing newborn scrunchyface that brings it all back.The Original Niece (I'll need to work on new ...
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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 ...
    • Self-winding cellphones
    • By G. Rendell March 11, 2010 5:00 pm
      • It's not in production yet, but Nokia was recently awarded a patent for a cellphone that recharges its own battery, with no electrical connection required.The thing is built with most of its innards able to move slightly within its case. Between aforementioned innards and the case itself are piezocrystals which, when compressed, put out a small electrical charge. It's not a lot on any single ...
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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
    • Due Dates
    • By Susan O'Doherty March 14, 2010 5:19 pm
      • I have been meaning to write about "Paula Bolick"'s witty article "Giving Birth to 2 Babies" in The Chronicle. It brought back my own experience of defending my dissertation two weeks before my son's due date (four before his actual birth).As Bolick points out, having a due date can provide a needed firecracker under an otherwise dilatory graduate student. I had spent the evenings and weekends of ...
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  • Provost Prose

  • A provost examines the world on campus and in higher ed.
    • Level Playing Field
    • By Herman Berliner March 14, 2010 9:04 pm
      • Early this week, a graduating senior came to my office to ask for a recommendation to Law School. Since I had known the excellent work done by this student since he entered Hofstra, I was pleased to say yes. In the course of the conversation, I asked about his LSAT score, which turned out to be OK but not spectacular and then asked whether he had taken an LSAT review course. I ask any student who ...
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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
    • The Paradox of LMS Feature Choice
    • By Joshua Kim March 15, 2010 8:19 am
      • In our LMS (Blackboard 8), instructors have the following drop-down options in a content area (in the order they appear): Learning Unit, Survey, Assignment, Discussion Board, Group, Tool, Document Package, Syllabus, Offline Content, Podcast Episode, Google Scholar Search, Google Scholar Content, Wiki, Blog. All these choices are good, right? Instructors can use the drop-down menus to easily ...
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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.
    • PATHOLOGY OF THE LAPTOP
    • By UD March 13, 2010 5:55 pm
      • The laptop ban story has broken out of its narrow precincts. Articles on the subject used to cover the handful of American law schools with institution-wide bans, or the scattered professors in a variety of fields who independently ban them from their classrooms. But now the story has hit the big time. The Google News page for 'banning laptops' lists lots of national and international articles, ...
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