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Responding to 'A question (about universities, global challenges, and an organizational-ethical dilemma)'
Editors' note: today's guest entry has been kindly developed by Dr. Lucia Rodriguez, director of the Global Master’s in Development...
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So What Are You Going To Be When You Grow Up?
“So what can you do with a degree in Cultural Studies?” I felt the deer-caught-in-headlights look come over my face...
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Toward Answers
In this week's kerfuffle about the New Faculty Majority – from which other administrators seem to have learned that such...
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Math Geek Mom: The Deep End
Last week, I watched my daughter giggle as she made her way down the water slide at our public pool...
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Technology projects for the new academic year
As semester schools begin their academic year, and quarter schools brace for the start of the fall term, what types...
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Habitability check
A while back, I was excoriated for stating that a four degree centigrade rise in average temperature could render much...
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Saving Stimulus
This is one of those “individually rational, collectively insane” moments. The New York Times reported that some of the federal...
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Open Access and the Library's Missing Mission
Dorothea Salo has an interesting post at the Book of Trogool. She wonders about the mission of academic libraries, and...