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Progressive Discipline and the Tenure Clock
In most non-tenure based settings, managers use “progressive discipline” to address many employee issues. Progressive discipline is the practice of...
Mater: De Facto et De Jure
“One baby, one book,” my adviser told me, when as an ambitious, twenty-three-year-old, Marshall Scholar at Cambridge University, I announced...
Proposed Course: The Learning Universe of Curtis J. Bonk
Some people deserve their own courses. They are both interesting and prolific enough that only in the context of a...
Long Distance Mom: 'Superman' and Teacher Evaluation
There’s been a lot of negative media lately, particularly surrounding education and teachers' unions in Wisconsin, Ohio and Florida. My...
Separation anxiety
Illinois decision to decouple IT chain of command from the academic one, and resignation of a displeased CIO, sparks debate on "centralized" technology.
Dust in the Wind
For the benefit of those who wonder what administrators talk about in closed-door meetings, and why we come out looking...
Traditional Faculty: For-Profit Institution - An Interview
I’m curious about the life of full-time faculty at for-profits for four reasons: Sociological: I just don’t know too much...
NASPA 2011 Annual Conference
The 2011 NASPA Annual Conference has been an amazing event. More than 5,000 student affairs practitioners came to Philadelphia to...