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Opinion
Nationwide Staffing Shortages and the Demand for Higher Ed Gigs
Why does the nation’s employee shortage seem to exist in every place but higher ed?
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Amazon’s Warehouses, Bezos’s Worldview and Elite Higher Education
How might academia think about the Times article on working conditions at Amazon fulfillment centers?
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5 Reasons Why Faculty and Staff Have Negative Bandwidth
How overcommitment became the modern academic condition.
Opinion
The 3 Talent Markets for Nonfaculty Educators
Recruiting and retaining learning designers, faculty developers, educational technologists and other digital education professionals.
Opinion
More Retirement Parties Than 20-Something Onboardings
Our aging higher ed staff and the need to recruit and nurture more early-career professionals.
Opinion
3 Questions for Ted Cross, Associate Dean and Academic Program Director at Western Governors University
What are we talking about when we talk about a $13K master’s degree?
Opinion
Pondering ‘Extra Life’ During the Age of COVID
Steven Johnson’s timely new book on why life expectancy has doubled over the past 100 years, and what this story tells us as we try to emerge from a global pandemic.