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Dear Adjuncts: Don't Get Sick
I’m sick. And I don’t mean sniffles and tickle in my throat. I mean swallowing pitchforks and a jackhammer on...
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How Higher Ed Makes Most Things Meaningless
Lee Skallerup My academic research will not change the world. Don’t get me wrong; I love the authors I am...
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Assignments: Being Clear about What Matters
I’m at that tipping point in the summer when I’m thinking about what I want to do to revamp the...
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2020: The Campus Data Center Follows the Computer Lab
This prediction can't be correct. If the campus data center is really going to suffer the same fate as the...
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Career Services and Social Media
The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) 2009 Career Services Benchmark Survey for Four-Year Colleges and Universities lists career...
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Calculators
My scholarly background is in a social science discipline, not math. I have no particular pet theory on the right...
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Mama, Ph.D.: Unite!
Even people who have never taken a class in Economics have probably heard phrases from the subject from time to...
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BP and Academic Freedom
The contracts offered to scientists in the Gulf illustrate why universities and the press need to be vigilant about corporate control of research, writes Cary Nelson.