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Higher Education's Big Lie
The notion that education, particularly a college degree, is the key to career success is a particularly American idea. It...
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Syllabi Should Be Open
Every syllabus should be published, indexed, and freely available online. Where possible, the online syllabus should have these 5 traits...
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Differing economies
The recent Memorial Day holiday was more than welcome. In truth, that's the case most years. Given that the last...
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ABCs and PhD's: Time for a recharge
It’s damp. It’s dreary. As I write this, I look out my window and fog obscures the mid-morning light. After...
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Premature Promotion
Marc Nouri offers a manifesto on what it should mean to apply to become a full professor.
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The Content and the Buzz
Rumors of Book Expo's demise are greatly exaggerated. Scott McLemee returns from the university press "ghetto."
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YouTube As an FAQ Platform?
We make tons of screencasts for our FAQ pages. Voice-over screencasts are great ways to show people how to accomplish...
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Diversity's Next Challenges
In the early 1990s, two social psychologists conducted an experiment to see whether our society’s negative racial stereotypes affect the...