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On being seduced by The World University Rankings (2011-12)
Well, it’s ranking season again, and the Times Higher Education/Thomson Reuters World University Rankings (2011-2012) has just been released. The...
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i suppose in the middle of the road of my life i’ve entered not a dark wood exactly but something...
Tolerance for Ambiguity
“That’s stupid.” As a professor, I gritted my teeth every time I heard a student say that. It was an...
ABC's and PhD's: Part-timers
Joshua Kim wrote an interesting post in his blog on Monday about voluntary part-timers. His thesis is that part-time workers...
Cheating, Plagiarism and Just Plain "Not-too-Bright" Students
We’ve discussed the notion of cheating several times here at the University of Venus, its ramifications, philosophical perspectives, and devices...
The Arcade and the University
What will the university be like in 30 years? In 1981 I was 12 years old, growing up in Brookline...
Tinker Toy Story II
Last week, I riffed on a controversy over a library organization restructuring that led to new positions being created, old...
A world worthy of consideration
I just finished James H. Kunstler's novel, World Made by Hand. It's the tale of a small community near the...