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National Service
Every election year, we start to get proposals for various national service programs as ways to pay for college. The...
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An announcement and an accounting
First the announcement: the RSS feed is fixed. Those of you who aren't into RSS don't care, but some of...
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Louisville Sluggards
An alert reader sent me a link to this article in the Louisville Courier-Journal. Apparently, Kentucky passed some 'reforms' about...
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Who's Your Audience?
As an academic on a national job search, I read Richard Florida's latest, Who's Your City?, with mixed emotions. Florida...
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AOL
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by access, craving hysterical naked dragging themselves through wired rooms at...
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The Rest of Spring Break
We’re finishing our spring break with a couple of days at the Hyatt on the Chicago River, and this view...
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Little boxes on the campus-side
More emails go by, some asking whether schools have disallowed first-year students from bringing cars, and what the results have...
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Ask the Administrator: Faculty or Staff?
A young correspondent writes: I'm writing to ask your opinion about attending graduate school. I recently graduated from a [public]...