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Vietnam, Part 1
It was a fair start, for an ironical life, to be born American in Saigon, Vietnam, on Ho Chi Minh’s...
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Motivation and Its Discontents
Will bringing in an inspirational speaker cure the faculty blues? Scott McLemee describes a skirmish in the culture wars.
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Out of State Checks and Academic Credits
As the nation’s registrars gather this week in Boston, Wick Sloane applies a dash of Open Source thinking to the costly, intractable data, articulation, credit-transfer muddle in higher education.
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Is There a Grant to Study This?
A student pouted at me in conference today and said she doesn’t care about writing or reading well. She wants...
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A Time for Casting Away
As her academic career evolves, Amy L. Wink reconsiders the books she needs to have, and those she can give up.
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Changing SEOG to Save It
Killing the student grant program is a bad idea, says Constantine Curris, but some criticisms of it are warranted.
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Churm House, Part 2
My wife makes more money as an internationalization coordinator than I have ever made, even as a corporate writer. That’s...