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Are You Reading "Steve Jobs"?
Raise your (virtual) hand (maybe through DISQUS comments) if you are reading (or have read) Isaacson's Steve Jobs.
Pride
About a week ago one of my earliest students was appointed superintendent of a very important neighboring school district. He...
Yet More on Rape Culture on Campus
I have been to State College, PA, exactly once in my life, and then it was to visit friends in a Quaker retirement community there. I don't know anyone who currently attends Penn State.
What’s New at University of Venus? 12 November 2011
UVenus Around the Web:
Sign of the Times
Somewhere, a provost is feeling a little naked.
Regulatory Language in Vendor Contracts Revisited
Call a lawyer today! That is more or less why I have come to D.C. for the NACUA conference on compliance for the last couple of days. I wanted to hone in on what, precisely, the legal language would be in a vendor contract to address the need that higher education has to protect its institutional information and take advantage of selective cloud providers of transmission and storage services.
Campus and community
The future, for colleges and universities, will require that we re-establish the local ties that many of us have been moving away from for generations. Operating a campus sustainably -- simply administering, lighting, heating, and plumbing its buildings; feeding their occupants; providing necessary supplies and handling physical output streams -- will require that the institution adjust, adapt, and rethink very much in integration with moves made by the surrounding community.
Teaching Wilfred Owen to Soldiers
The students he met at Fort Benning changed the way he looks at poetry and at life choices, writes H. William Rice.