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Tips for Fighting Writer's Block
Our question of the month comes to us from Ana Dinescu: “How do you fight writer’s block?” Ana Dinescu (Berlin...
It's 4:30 in the morning, do you know where your work/life balance is?
A dear colleague of mine and I were talking the other day about a couple of exciting things that have...
The Natural End of Schooling
Amy Chua’s endlessly discussed Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa’s Academically Adrift have provoked...
Conference 101
I love conferences; they allow me to be a registrar geek, among over 2,000 people, vendors, university representatives, and governmental...
I Didn't Expect to Make Friends
I’m currently in a class entitled Children, Desire and Fear; this is in addition to my Erotica Special Studies course...
Blogs in higher education - some ideas about their benefits and downsides
I have recently been awarded a small course development grant meant to use blogs in the teaching of European studies...
Expertise and Ethics in Academics
Today writing about ethics in academics became a necessity, after all that has been happening in Japan for the past...
Creating a Degree for 10K
Governor Rick Perry of Texas recently challenged educators to offer degrees costing $10,000 ( A College Degree for $10,000). “He...