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Recruitment Agents: An Excuse for Prejudice
“US and Australia Usher in New Agent Guidelines” –This article came flying through my Twitter feed this week and I...
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Long Distance Mom: Grades Due
I considered not writing a column today because I have to finish my grading. (Let me repeat — I HAVE...
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Reading 'The Haves and the Have-Nots'
If you went to grad school in sociology in the 1990s you probably talked about inequality ( what we called...
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Confusing Excess With Access
Last week, I confessed to having something of a crisis of faith. I was attending a fascinating workshop on library...
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ABC's and PhD's: Call it a day
I was taken with the “What do professors do all day?” blog that Libby pointed to in her blog a...
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Amazon and the Absent Conversation with Higher Ed
Amazon.com should get to know us better. We'd like to get to know Amazon. What company is so entrenched in...
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The Achilles' Heel of the For-Profits
Quick -- what’s the fatal flaw of for-profit higher ed? Adjuncts? Nope -- the nonprofits invented the genre, and have...
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What Are You Teaching Next Semester?
I have been an adjunct for almost a year now. Last January, amid a flurry of stress, and uncertainty about...