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  • Alma Mater

  • A new college president ponders liberal education and the changing landscape of academe.
    • Sorrow and Community
    • By Jeff Abernathy August 3, 2010 9:28 pm
      • When tragedy hits a close-knit community like Alma, Michigan, we all feel it. Two weeks ago, it hit hard. I was in a meeting at city hall when the call came in. A plane flying out of our local airport had gone down over Lake Michigan.In the hours that followed, the news trickled in: a mercy flight for our school superintendent who has been battling cancer departed Alma en route to the Mayo ...
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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 ...
    • Random Bullets of Friday
    • By Dean Dad September 2, 2010 8:19 pm
      • --I don’t get the Apple tv thing. It only gets two networks, and they’re ones that I can get over the air for free. Apple, I enjoy following you guys, but you’re missing the point here. The point is to make it possible to drop cable tv, or at least to cut it back all the way to the very basics. Gaining the option of paying again to watch shows I could have tivo’d the first time they were ...
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  • Digital Tweed

    • Cars...and College Textbooks
    • By Kenneth C. Green August 30, 2010 9:00 pm
      • Please, esteemed reader, bear with me. What follows is not an apology for textbook publishers: good, bad, or otherwise, students, faculty, and publishers all share various parts of the pain of the broken business model for college textbooks. Rather, what follows is an effort to explain why the business model is broken.Last month Chrysler announced the end of the PT Cruiser. Launched in 1999 for ...
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  • Getting to Green

  • An administrator pushes, on a shoestring budget, to move his university and the world toward a more ...
    • Enthusiasm
    • By G. Rendell September 2, 2010 5:45 pm
      • In my more cynical moments, I sometimes feel like Merlin in T.H. White's The Once and Future King. Merlin had the distinct (dis)advantage of living life backwards, so that he was sometimes a bit vague on what had already happened but remembered well what was yet to come. All this gave him a richly ironic sense of humor which I flatter myself (the "rich" part aside, of course) that I share.And ...
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  • GlobalHigherEd

  • Surveying the Construction of Global Knowledge/Spaces for the ‘Knowledge Economy’
    • A Universiti Sains Malaysia response to ‘A question ...."
    • By Dzulkifli Abdul Razak August 31, 2010 7:45 am
      • Editors' note: today's guest entry has been kindly developed by Professor Dzulkifli Abdul Razak, Vice-Chancellor, Universiti Sains Malaysia, a position he has held since 2000. Professor Dzulkifli's post is the seventh response to Nigel Thrift’s ‘A question (about universities, global challenges, and an organizational, ethical dilemma)‘, which was originally posted on 8 April 2010. As noted ...
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  • Law, Policy -- and IT?

  • Tracy Mitrano explores the intersection where higher education, the Internet and the world meet ...
    • Watch This Video!
    • By Tracy Mitrano August 31, 2010 12:34 pm
      • Remember Abbie Hoffman’s “Steal This Book!”? Transformed, “Watch This Video!":Bruce Schneier needs no introduction but he deserves, once again, an award for impassioned and succinct articulation of the market, social norms, law and technology conundrums, this time not about technical security, which is the topic that propelled him to fame, but the opposite side of that coin, privacy. ...
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  • Library Babel Fish

  • A college librarian's take on technology
    • Markets and Missions
    • By Barbara Fister August 31, 2010 4:15 am
      • Okay, I know it's a naive question, but why did universities decide that their presses should be profit centers, or should at the very least make enough revenue to cover their expenses? Libraries aren't asked to make enough money to pay for themselves. Libraries and university presses both exist to further knowledge - so why the difference? Why do universities accept the idea that libraries cost ...
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  • Mama PhD

  • Mothers attempting to balance parenthood and academics
    • Math Geek Mom: Mother's Labor
    • By Rosemarie Emanuele September 2, 2010 8:16 pm
      • This weekend is Labor Day, a day that signifies the end of summer and the start of the school year. Never mind that most of us have already started back to school, and that summer technically does not end for a few weeks. This weekend allows us a chance to relax and savor a few last minutes of summer before the cold weather begins to arrive. And so, as I prepare to join relatives for this long ...
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  • Provost Prose

  • A provost examines the world on campus and in higher ed.
    • The end of summer sessions and the end of summer sessions
    • By Herman Berliner August 29, 2010 6:28 pm
      • We are wrapping up the third summer session on campus. We have three summer sessions and we also have a very active and heavily enrolled day camp which helps utilize our facilities during a time when there are fewer students on campus. In addition to there being fewer students there are also fewer faculty, and summer classes which are typically held early in the day or in the evening tend to ...
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  • Reality Check

  • The Reality Check blog, from John V. Lombardi, follows the endlessly fascinating parade of ...
    • Watching the Money
    • By John V. Lombardi August 20, 2010 12:15 pm
      • How will it all work out? The budget is a mess, the economy weak, the quality of high school graduates in decline. Tuition and fees are on the rise, for profit colleges under attack, and US News continues to issue rankings. We hear that the costs of big time college sports grow larger, that the rich schools stay rich and the poor schools get poorer. We see more faculty in adjunct status. Many of ...
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  • Technology and Learning

  • A space for conversation and debate about learning and technology
    • Some Things We Learn from "Packing for Mars"
    • By Joshua Kim September 2, 2010 8:30 pm
      • Mary Roach's "Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void" is the perfect book for anyone who is curious about the ins and outs (literally) of space travel.We learn:How astronauts urinate and defecate in space, and how this process has changed from the early Apollo missions to the space shuttle to the space station. How sex in space would work, and if anyone has ever given it a ...
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  • The Education of Oronte Churm

  • Oronte Churm, lecturer in English, writes about the weird and sometimes beautiful thing we call ...
    • You’re All Winners
    • By Oronte September 1, 2010 10:45 am
      • But in my shop, only three entries in the “Write Your Heaven” contest could be chosen, on the basis of originality, wordcraft, and evocativeness.Congratulations to:Connie Corzilius SpasserHeaven isthe anteroomthe dim shop on the narrow streetshelves of books and potionsthe walk under brancheshumming with portentHeaven isthe capsule held between the teethforever, the high heel danglingfrom the ...
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  • University Diaries

  • A professor of English describes American University life.
    • LEMONIZING THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    • By UD August 20, 2010 3:49 pm
      • Donald Light, currently Lorry Lokey Visiting Professor of Human Biology at Stanford, has presented a paper at this year's American Sociological Association convention that's getting a lot of attention from the world press. (The paper is not yet published.) Light takes off from George Akerlof's famous 1970 "lemons paper," which focuses upon what Akerlof calls the problem of adverse selection due ...
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  • University of Venus

  • GenX Women in Higher Ed, Writing from Across the Globe
    • From the Tenure Side-Lines
    • By Guest blogger, Elizabeth Lewis Pardoe, writing from Evanston, Illinois in the USA September 3, 2010 6:15 am
      • I took the unthinkable step off the tenure track when my second son was born. I have no desire to return, but I do crave recognition of my role as a member of the scholarly community. I continue to produce scholarship, but as someone on the tenure side-lines, no one cares or accounts for the time and energy it entails. I think my talents are put to better use where I am than as the proverbial ...
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Archived Blogs


  • Adviser in the Classroom

  • In which an academic adviser and political theorist tries his hand at science.
    • “Solar,” Part 2
    • By Dermot O'Brien April 19, 2010 11:15 pm
      • There’s lots of science and mathematics in “Solar” and given Ian McEwan’s reputation as a very assiduous researcher and given whatever I’ve picked-up in “Energy & the Environment,” I think that most of it is not bullshit. But, of course, that assumption does not apply to physicist Michael Beard’s brand new process for solar power. The process involves reverse engineering ...
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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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  • 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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