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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 ...
    • The Ultimate Safety School?
    • By Dean Dad March 11, 2010 9:25 pm
      • With the Great Recession wreaking havoc on parental jobs, we've had an influx of students this year who normally would have started at a four-year college. For the most part, they still intend to get there, but they're starting at the cc to save money on transferable credits. Some of them have been quite upfront about the economic motivation for starting at a cc, and about fully intending not to ...
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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
    • Math Geek Mom: Thoughts on “We are the World”, Part 2
    • By Rosemarie Emanuele March 11, 2010 6:54 pm
      • Before finding my job at Ursuline College, I taught economics or statistics at several different colleges. I taught as part of my graduate assistantship on the way to my Ph.D., as an adjunct at several colleges in the Boston area as a graduate student, and at my first job out of grad school, and the one that brought me here to Cleveland. I was recently reminded of a lecture I tried to teach at ...
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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
    • Where Mobile Learning and Copyright Collide
    • By Joshua Kim March 11, 2010 8:57 pm
      • Mobile learning and copyright collide at the download. Consuming, not producing, is where the mobile platform shines. The form factor is simply too small to allow easy inputs. Until the day when speech-to-text runs natively and robustly on the mobile platform, the small keyboard makes creation impractical. Where consuming works best is on the download and sync. TED talks lose none of their ...
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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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