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Fields for study
A column by a British (sometime-) academic may point the way toward research opportunities for American universities. George Monbiot has...
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Sub-critical mass
Erin O’Connor, an English prof at Penn, blogs about higher ed, sometimes from a position politically to the right of...
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Choir, please disregard
If we keep doing what we’ve been doing, we’ll keep getting what we’ve been getting. What most of us have...
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Bifurcated Budget Begets Bad Buildings
It’s said that the modern university consists of a large number of academic and administrative departments united by a common...
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Pet Peeve #1
I’m not sure what my pet peeves #2 through n are, but I’m sure I’ll figure it out in time...
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Computing in Color
In days of old, when students were bold, computers were both more impressive and less powerful. They also generated a...
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Snow Days
Blizzards in the Northeast have forced colleges to cancel classes and given students a chance to show off their creativity.
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Bag it! (or don't)
Kind of on the heels of the (no) dining hall trays idea: I just saw an item in the Sunday...