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Long Distance Mom: Edupunk
When I first heard the word, I thought, ‘Edupunk sounds like the kind of educational strategy that my son Nick...
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Acronym Soup
This confession is really awful for an academic administrator, but it’s true. My brain has run out of space for...
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Loyalty or Desperation?
From the archives - this post was originally published at http://uvenus.org on 2010.06.30. I didn’t teach last semester (Winter 10)...
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ABC's and Ph.D.'s: Unemployed!
All good grants come to an end… and the one that has supported me half-time at the university for the...
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Sinecures and Sunsets
Too many management books are written from the perspective of the CEO. Most managers aren’t CEO’s; they’re somewhere in the...
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Discipline (or Punish?)
Deanna wondered not too long ago at UVenus about where she belongs in the world of academia: student, administrator, researcher...
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Using social media to enhance engagement, yield, and retention
Schools, a Facebook application from Inigral, was first featured on Inside Higher Ed in the summer of 2008. The Schools...
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Pushing and Pulling Higher Ed to Common Core Standards
Last week we observed the prevalence of the term “innovation” in political speech and what it will take to make...