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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 ...
    • A Response to Michael Berube
    • By Dean Dad November 23, 2009 3:55 am
      • A few alert readers called my attention to this post by Michael Berube, in which he attacks my response to the AAUP. He even goes so far as to "nominate DD’s post for the coveted Richard Cohen Award for Advanced Wrongheadedness." Clearly, a response is in order. Berube's post is a couple of weeks old, since I stopped reading his stuff a few years ago. I mentally consigned him to the same ...
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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 ...
    • Selling sustainability
    • By G. Rendell November 18, 2009 8:05 pm
      • Let me start by saying that I'm tremendously conflicted on this subject. Probably the first lessons I taught my children when they were old enough to watch TV were that (1) commercials lie, and (2) lots of kids' shows are just half-hour commercials. Pure selling is not something I'm good at, or that I enjoy, or that I can respect in anything but the most cynical manner.At the same time, ...
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  • Intellectual Affairs - The Blog

  • The blogging annex to Scott McLemee's weekly column
    • Librarians Get Busy
    • By Scott McLemee July 13, 2009 10:42 am
      • The American Library Association is meeting, and tweeting, in Chicago. A report:"The nearly week-long librarian meet-up, which began July 9, delivers 'over 300 educational programs' to professional bibliophiles each year--including workshops like 'Collection Development: Decision Making With Data' and 'When Is Nice Too Nice? Strategies For Disengaging From the Talkative Patron.' Some attendees, ...
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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
    • Career Coach: Still More on Gender Balance
    • By Susan O'Doherty November 22, 2009 5:39 pm
      • As usual, I was fascinated by the responses to last week’s column. I am still looking for the place where I wrote, as “Anonymous” charges, that I “didn't like and continue not to like the fact that [my] alma mater went mixed.” I actually had no desire to attend a women’s college—that was my parents’ idea. I had a brother and no sisters, and two out of my four closest friends in ...
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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
    • The Long Tail of Teaching Talent
    • By Joshua Kim November 22, 2009 7:39 pm
      • The tail of teaching talent in your institution is longer then generally recognized, and it extends to your librarians and technologists. Perhaps this long tail of teaching talent encompasses others as well, such as the professionals in institutional research, human resources, building operations, and many more. The idea that the only qualification for developing and teaching a college course is ...
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  • The Education of Oronte Churm

  • Oronte Churm, lecturer in English, writes about the weird and sometimes beautiful thing we call ...
    • Guest Book Review: Give My Poor Heart Ease
    • By Oronte November 19, 2009 11:30 pm
      • Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues. William Ferris. The University of North Carolina Press, November 2009. $35.00.Review by Katya CumminsGive My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues is a book that will transport its readers, though it’s meant to be experienced at a walking pace. The book is comprised of black-and-white photographs and edited interviews that ...
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  • University Diaries

  • A professor of English describes American University life.
    • PLAGIARISM, HIGH AND LOW
    • By UD November 21, 2009 9:20 am
      • Two recent instances of professorial plagiarism - New Zealand novelist Witi Ihimaera and, allegedly, Ohio State University mathematician Azita Manouchehri - have UD thinking once more about this odd and endless practice of stealing other people's words and work.Students, professors, journalists, scientists -- everyone, it sometimes seems, who puts pinkie to keyboard, feels tempted to block and ...
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