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Alma Mater
A new college president ponders liberal education and the changing landscape of academe.
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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.)
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StratEDgy
The StratEDgy blog is intended to be a thoughtful hub for discussion about strategy and competition in higher education.
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College Ready Writing
A blog about education, higher ed, teaching, and trying to re-imagine how we provide education.
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GradHacker
A Blog from GradHacker and MATRIX: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters and Social Sciences Online
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Hack (Higher) Education
How new technologies can hack [higher] education, and how learners of all sorts can hack technology back.
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Minor Details
Insights on the college completion agenda, higher education policy, and institutional performance, from James T. Minor of the Southern Education Foundation.
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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.
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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.
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Getting to Green
An administrator pushes, on a shoestring budget, to move his university and the world toward a more sustainable equilibrium.
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GlobalHigherEd
Surveying the Construction of Global Knowledge/Spaces for the ‘Knowledge Economy’
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Law, Policy -- and IT?
Tracy Mitrano explores the intersection where higher education, the Internet and the world meet (and sometimes collide).
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Library Babel Fish
A college librarian's take on technology
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Mama PhD
Mothers attempting to balance parenthood and academics.
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Provost Prose
A provost examines the world on campus and in higher ed.
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Reality Check
The Reality Check blog, from John V. Lombardi, follows the endlessly fascinating parade of criticism and defense of the higher education business.
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Statehouse Test
Statehouse Test is a weekly analysis of governors' inaugural and state-of-the-state addresses, and budgets, related to postsecondary education.
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Student Affairs and Technology
News, tips, and practical insights about technology for student affairs practitioners by Eric Stoller.
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Technology and Learning
A space for conversation and debate about learning and technology
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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.
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The World View
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A blog from the Center for International Higher Education
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University Diaries
A professor of English describes American university life.
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University of Venus
GenX Women in Higher Ed, Writing from Across the Globe
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The World View
February 3, 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.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
February 3, 2012 - 3:57am
Thank you to everyone who answered the call for suggestions earlier this week about running college classes in high schools. The point about class interruptions for announcements, proms, and such was a good one, and can be included in the words of warning we give the professors.
GradHacker
February 2, 2012 - 9:28pm
Valentine’s Day is fast-approaching, and for many singletons out there, just passing by the grocery store’s “seasonal” aisle can be an unpleasant reminder of one’s relationship status. Of course, being single, even during Valentine’s Day, can be a liberating experience and also a time of personal growth and discovery. But what if you’re single and you’d like to start dating? What if you also are in graduate school? As we’ve discovered, dating while you’re a graduate student poses its own challenges. Here is some advice from Amy (who is happily taken) and Katy (who is currently negotiating the dating scene).
Technology and Learning
February 2, 2012 - 9:20pm
The big secret amongst many of us who work in online learning is that we are not all that wild about online courses. Sure, we think online courses can be great, and can fill an important need, but what really gets us excited is learning.
Getting to Green
February 2, 2012 - 9:12pm
Should first-year students be assigned shared readings about adaptation to climate change? And if they were, what would that mean for curriculum?
Student Affairs and Technology
February 2, 2012 - 8:39pm
Privacy is a fluid construct. People created privacy. We shape it, re-write it, rail against and/or for it. The social rules that dictate privacy are inherently individualized and collectively nebulous. Privacy is not rigid. However, when it comes to conversing about privacy and social media, there seem to be severely polarized viewpoints: those who use privacy as a blockade against using social media versus those who use social media without feeling compelled to protect themselves.
Mama PhD
February 2, 2012 - 8:30pm
I once attended a seminar presented by the National Endowment for the Humanities on the Philosophy of Math. As an economist teaching in a math department, I was obviously the participant with the most unusual background, as most of the other participants were philosophers of math, many teaching in philosophy departments. While there, I recall one woman discussing the question of “is there a middle number?” Since there is no highest or lowest number, the question became whether there is a middle number. Her conclusion was that there is, indeed, a middle number, and that number is zero.
Hack (Higher) Education
February 2, 2012 - 7:09pm
Plenty of folks see the move to digital textbooks as "inevitable." After all, more and more people are buying e-books and e-readers. Yet college students in particular continue to turn up their noses to digital textbooks. What assumptions are we making that lead us to think that digital textbooks are what students want, let alone need?
University of Venus
February 1, 2012 - 8:44pm
For more than one year, almost every two months, I enjoy writing a book review. Most of the books I am interested in cover the main issues I am focused on in my daily lectures; there are books on political science, history of Central and Eastern Europe, foreign affairs and identity, ethnic minorities and tolerance.
Library Babel Fish
February 1, 2012 - 8:40pm
We increasingly depend on companies whose business is collecting information about us – what we read, what we say, what we watch, what we buy, where we go, and who we know. It’s scary how much the tools that we use every day capture and use personal information - and how little we care. But perhaps that will soon change. Both Facebook and Google will be revealing some of the astounding amount of information they’ve gathered about us, and it may make people uncomfortable enough to stir things up.
Alma Mater
February 1, 2012 - 5:15pm
Last weekend we came far too close to every college president’s nightmare.
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