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21st Century Snake Oil?
The push for performance-based funding, built on data and other outcomes, exaggerates the likely results, Garrison Walters writes.
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Would You Build a New 600 Seat Classroom?
Last week I had the pleasure to spend time with Fred Siff, Professor and CIO Emeritus University of Cincinnati, at...
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Ask the Administrator: Partial Pay for Small Sections
An occasional correspondent writes: I have been offered a course at a reduced rate because the enrollment is not 100%...
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Former Student Checks In
If there’s one thing blogging regularly for years has made obvious to me, it’s that the mind roams restless as...
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ABC's and PhD's: Big Projects
For my husband and myself, our Thanksgiving weekend was pretty low-key. Turkey at our friends’ house (we only had to...
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Hints for Job Seekers
It’s been a while since I’ve done a “how to get the job” piece. Judging by a recent flurry of...
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When Things Fall Apart
Rob Weir discusses what to do when life intervenes in a major way in plans for your semester.
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Scribble, Scribble
Once, it was dangerous for professors to publish too much. Scott McLemee takes a trip to Geezer Junction.