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  • Alma Mater

    A new college president ponders liberal education and the changing landscape of academe.

  • Blog U Special: Apple's Announcement

    Our bloggers' posts on the technology giant's new venture in education. (And our team live blogged about the event, too: Click here.)

  • StratEDgy

    The StratEDgy blog is intended to be a thoughtful hub for discussion about strategy and competition in higher education.

  • College Ready Writing

    A blog about education, higher ed, teaching, and trying to re-imagine how we provide education.

  • GradHacker

    A Blog from GradHacker and MATRIX: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters and Social Sciences Online

  • Hack (Higher) Education

    How new technologies can hack [higher] education, and how learners of all sorts can hack technology back.

  • Minor Details

    Insights on the college completion agenda, higher education policy, and institutional performance, from James T. Minor of the Southern Education Foundation.

  • Confessions of a Community College Dean

    In which a veteran of cultural studies seminars in the 1990s moves into academic administration and finds himself a married suburban father of two. Foucault, plus lawn care.

  • Digital Tweed

    Digital Tweed© is the work of Kenneth C. Green, founding director of The Campus Computing Project. If successful, these posts will inform and entertain, and at times also annoy. A little dissonance can be a good thing.

  • Getting to Green

    An administrator pushes, on a shoestring budget, to move his university and the world toward a more sustainable equilibrium.

  • GlobalHigherEd

    Surveying the Construction of Global Knowledge/Spaces for the ‘Knowledge Economy’

  • Law, Policy -- and IT?

    Tracy Mitrano explores the intersection where higher education, the Internet and the world meet (and sometimes collide).

  • Library Babel Fish

    A college librarian's take on technology

  • Mama PhD

    Mothers attempting to balance parenthood and academics.

  • Provost Prose

    A provost examines the world on campus and in higher ed.

  • Reality Check

    The Reality Check blog, from John V. Lombardi, follows the endlessly fascinating parade of criticism and defense of the higher education business.

  • Statehouse Test

    Statehouse Test is a weekly analysis of governors' inaugural and state-of-the-state addresses, and budgets, related to postsecondary education.

  • Student Affairs and Technology

    News, tips, and practical insights about technology for student affairs practitioners by Eric Stoller.

  • Technology and Learning

    A space for conversation and debate about learning and technology

  • The Education of Oronte Churm

    Looking for Radio Free AWP, the series of literary podcasts posted here the first week of February? See all of them at once at the Radio Free homepage. If you're new to the blog and want to know more about me, please click through to OronteChurm.com.

  • The World View

    A blog from the Center for International Higher Education

  • University Diaries

    A professor of English describes American university life.

  • University of Venus

    GenX Women in Higher Ed, Writing from Across the Globe

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Law, Policy -- and IT?

February 8, 2012 - 3:55am
We do, because of the Internet and its intersection with business, law and people.  All one has to do is read the newspaper to know it is true.  Facebook seeks an public offering valued in the high billions.

Confessions of a Community College Dean

February 8, 2012 - 3:51am
A couple of weeks ago I had the chance to discuss a proposed and relatively dramatic policy change with someone fairly high in state government.  I objected to the change with some vigor, and outlined several objections that I thought added up to a compelling case.  She listened politely, and then gave an answer for which I hadn’t prepared.

Hack (Higher) Education

February 7, 2012 - 11:44pm
It's fairly clear that Silicon Valley has decided that education is space ripe for "disruption."  But there's a lot of talk that "suddenly" technology and education are coming together.  This is a grossly a-historical way to think about ed-tech, one that ignores years of research, development, successes and failures.

University of Venus

February 7, 2012 - 9:50pm
Last November, I briefly visited Boston to give a lecture at Northeastern University, my alma mater where I got my Ph.D. degree. The last time I was there was four and a half years ago to defend my dissertation. It felt like “Homecoming” for me this time, when I visited my old university after such a long time.

GradHacker

February 7, 2012 - 8:30pm
There is no doubt that online education has arrived in Higher Education. Each year, the numbers of colleges and universities offering online courses increases. There is certainly appeal for these types of courses: students can better fit them into busy schedules and traveling to campus is no longer required. While I dabbled in teaching hybrid and online courses for a while, I have been teaching online for most of the past two years.  Additionally, I began my graduate career in a hybrid PhD program: two weeks of face-to-face instruction with the rest of the instruction and work provided entirely online, and mostly asynchronously. Having been on both sides of online learning has taught me a few lessons about how best to help students learn in an environment that provides as many challenges (if not more) as face-to-face teaching.

Student Affairs and Technology

February 7, 2012 - 8:23pm
Social media has been present in the lives of collegiate athletes for as long as there has been social media. However, it would seem that coaches and the NCAA are just now realizing that social media is something that they may want to learn more about.

Technology and Learning

February 7, 2012 - 8:11pm
We are suffering under an acute shortage of technologically literate smart fiction. The Fear Index should be read up by everyone who works in and around computing.

The World View

February 7, 2012 - 2:16pm
Chile’s Ministry of Education has launched a web portal offering with unprecedented detail employment and earnings data to prospective applicants to higher education. The portal, called “Mi futuro” is a searchable database that lists hundreds of degree programs, professional and technical, from Medicine to Auto Mechanic, displaying for each program of every institution of higher education in the country the following information: drop-out rate, average time to degree, average earnings of the graduates after 4 years of graduation, current tuition fees for the program, and accreditation status of the program.

College Ready Writing

February 6, 2012 - 9:13pm
Is "building" an essential part of digital humanities? 

Mama PhD

February 6, 2012 - 9:05pm
A reader emailed recently to alert me to the publication of a new study of working mothers, in the journal Gender and Society. (An aside: I hate the term “working mothers,” as I think it devalues the actual work of mothering. I’ll try to find other ways to say it as I write about the study, but to date I haven’t found a good substitute.) The findings didn’t really surprise me, but they were confirmatory: most working mothers, single or married, find value, fulfillment, and meaning in paid work outside the home.

StratEDgy

February 5, 2012 - 7:32pm
   

Provost Prose

February 5, 2012 - 5:19pm
I am today philosophically close to where I was when I was in graduate school.  I am a middle of the road economist.  I recognize the importance of government fiscal and monetary policy and yet government needs to make sure it doesn’t micromanage where it isn’t necessary, and government needs to make sure that the laws are constructed in the fairest way possible.

The Education of Oronte Churm

February 5, 2012 - 4:14pm
In which certain mysteries are only prolonged.

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