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How Higher Ed Makes Most Things Meaningless
Lee Skallerup My academic research will not change the world. Don’t get me wrong; I love the authors I am...
Assignments: Being Clear about What Matters
I’m at that tipping point in the summer when I’m thinking about what I want to do to revamp the...
2020: The Campus Data Center Follows the Computer Lab
This prediction can't be correct. If the campus data center is really going to suffer the same fate as the...
Career Services and Social Media
The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) 2009 Career Services Benchmark Survey for Four-Year Colleges and Universities lists career...
Calculators
My scholarly background is in a social science discipline, not math. I have no particular pet theory on the right...
Mama, Ph.D.: Unite!
Even people who have never taken a class in Economics have probably heard phrases from the subject from time to...
BP and Academic Freedom
The contracts offered to scientists in the Gulf illustrate why universities and the press need to be vigilant about corporate control of research, writes Cary Nelson.
Professor Plum, With a Candlestick, In the Study
The comments to yesterday’s post shed more heat than light, but I’ll concede one point: the piece was snarkier than...