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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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University of Venus

What’s New at University of Venus? 11 February 2012
February 12, 2012 - 11:47am
What’s New at UVenus:
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Library Babel Fish

'Too Big to Know' by David Weinberger
February 10, 2012 - 12:06am
Too Big to Know is a surprisingly small book (around 200 pages - you can sample an excerpt at The Atlantic) that covers a lot of ground, touching on issues of interest to anyone who wonders where knowledge is headed and what shape it is taking in this unstable era. The subtitle, written in the elevator pitch style that is so popular with publishers these days, provides a hint of what's inside: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room is the Room.
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GradHacker

Setting Time Boundaries
February 9, 2012 - 10:50pm
The busy life of a grad student is often spent juggling multiple responsibilities from school, work and personal life.  If you’re anything like me, you’re always finding yourself overcommitted to things and something has to drop to the wayside. One of my goals has been to better manage my time and set up boundaries with my commitments.  I’m not naturally a planner (big understatement!), but I’ve come to realize that if I’m not careful, things are just going to fall apart.
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Technology and Learning

8 Tips for Running Projects Outside of Your Expertise
February 9, 2012 - 9:10pm
Lately, I've had to become an expert at running projects outside of my expertise. I'm heading up a website project and a room A/V design projects, both subjects I know just enough about to be dangerous.
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Confessions of a Community College Dean

Friday Fragments
February 9, 2012 - 8:58pm
This Marketplace report brought me up short. It’s about Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs, endorsing gay marriage in New York.  The report notes that CEO’s of major banks aren’t generally known for taking positions on potentially divisive social issues.  
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Mama PhD

Math Geek Mom: Seasons
February 9, 2012 - 8:22pm
There are many times in math that we encounter behavior that appears to repeat or cycle back on itself. For example, one often finds strings of repeating digits when trying to convert a rational number into a decimal, or one can observe cyclical behavior associated with the trigonometric functions. Such behavior came to mind recently as I realized that we are moving from winter into a spring that will eventually turn into summer, and that, as a mom, I needed to plan for such a change in seasons.
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Getting to Green

Individual epiphany
February 9, 2012 - 7:10pm
Sometimes I'm so stupid I could kick myself.  Of course, before that kicking urge comes on, I have to realize my own stupidity -- have to, at least somewhat, realize my previous error.  What triggered this personal epiphany (if that's the right word -- it wasn't a real "AHA!" moment, more like "ahhhh . . . . ummm . . . hunh?") was an advertising sign on the top of a taxi cab.  The sign advertised a pizza place called "Paisano's", and my son asked me what the term "paisano" meant.
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StratEDgy

Musings on the MBA Market
February 8, 2012 - 9:52pm
Hats off to Kellogg! It’s rare to see a market leader remaking its up-to-this-point-wildly-successful business model, but this is exactly what the new Dean, Sally Blount, is doing. 
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Hack (Higher) Education

A Look At A(nother) LMS Startup: iVersity
February 8, 2012 - 7:52pm
Blackboard unveiled a new UI today, something that certainly seems a response to not just user complaints but to the flood of new learning management systems entering the market.  But is a UI change sufficient? A look at the Berlin-based iVersity shows a very different approach to thinking about what an online learning platform can be.
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Student Affairs and Technology

Digital Identity Development: Orientation and Career Services
February 8, 2012 - 7:24pm
Is digital identity development part of your institution's orientation program? It's understandable if it isn't. After all, orientation programs are generally at capacity and an extra addition to the schedule is nearly impossible. However, I suspect that eventually, digital identity development will be present at almost all orientation programs.
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College Ready Writing

How To Be a Hero for Adjuncts
February 8, 2012 - 6:53pm
Don't think you can do anything meaningful to help adjuncts? Think again.
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