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New Civil Rights Movement
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated at the US Capitol on Sunday to demand LGBT equality. Scott McLemee thinks while marching...
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Local Economic Indicators
The Planet Money podcast from NPR has a running feature called "Today's Economic Indicator" (or something like that). It's a...
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The New Literacy and the CMS
The biggest problem I have with Blackboard (and other vertical CMS platforms) is that the knowledge, materials and conversation generated...
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How Community Colleges Can Reach Obama's Goals
Americans have long prided ourselves on our higher education system, but lately a much more negative image has emerged. The...
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Imposter Syndrome
Lesboprof has a thought-provoking post up about imposter syndrome. It's that nagging feeling that you get in an authority role...
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Mothering at Mid-Career: My take on "Opting Out"
Dana Campbell came at the new census data on "opting out" last week from a rather different perspective than mine...
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Carol Twigg Is a Rock Star
In Jack Stripling's fascinating IHE piece on the National Center for Academic Transformation (NCAT), Carol Twigg is quoted as saying...
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Autumn Chill
Rob Weir offers suggestions on how not to flame out like fall leaves as your stress and work levels go up -- and how to reach your students when they experience mid-semester overload.