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Habitability check

A while back, I was excoriated for stating that a four degree centigrade rise in average temperature could render much...
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Back to Elementary School

Teacher education professors shouldn't just study K-12, writes Shaun Johnson. They need to know what it's like to be in front of the classroom.
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Saving Stimulus

This is one of those “individually rational, collectively insane” moments. The New York Times reported that some of the federal...
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Open Access and the Library's Missing Mission

Dorothea Salo has an interesting post at the Book of Trogool. She wonders about the mission of academic libraries, and...
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The Beloit College 'Mindset' List

Much like new parking stickers, greetings from the dean, freshman orientation, long lines at the campus bookstore, and the reception...
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Motherhood After Tenure: Feeding our daughters

Like many who enjoyed Elizabeth Gilbert’s travel memoir Eat, Pray, Love, I’m excited to see the film, but wary, since...
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The Company We Keep: A Cautionary Tale

In international higher education, we are judged by the company we keep. Thus, it is of great importance that universities...
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OMG !!!

I was thinking, over my second cup of coffee, just how blunt, accusatory, vehement, vituperative, vicious is the verbiage used...