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Controversy Can Be Created

The clear intent of the Texas law is to encode in law that certain groups are right, by virtue of being who they are, and others are wrong.

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Friday Fragments

An update on compensation, public investment in community colleges, The Girl’s job hunt, and a rare sports story.

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Don’t Record What You Don’t Want to Have to Watch

Playing Big Brother would get tiring quickly. Any provost with enough time to review the videos of hundreds of classes isn’t doing their job.

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Compensation and Its Discontents

Some absurdities are less obvious.

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Grant Deadlines

Planning for and writing great grant applications takes time. Funders will have better applicants if they set reasonable deadlines.

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Thoughts on Bryan Alexander’s new book ‘Peak Higher Ed’

The tome brings up a lot of questions, but is superficial in its assessment of what’s driving change in our institutions.

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‘Digital Twins’ and the Prescience of Cheesy Early ’80s Science Fiction

I can foresee these twins creating workload expectations that effectively rule out actual people—the work could become entirely transactional and impersonal.

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One-Third, One-Third, One-Third

If the skies parted, the winds shifted and those who are supposed to provide funding at prescribed levels actually did, budgeting would be infinitely easier.