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Terror Index and the Academy

Maybe it's time for administrations to use a color code to tell liberal arts professors just how vulnerable their programs are, writes David Mulry.
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The Unbalanced Semester

Here at University of Venus, we talk a great deal about work/life balance — how to maintain the balance between family, private life and the demands of academia, which are many.
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Why Investing In Faculty Is the Best Method To Promote Innovation

We care about innovation at our institutions. We are determined to invest our scarce resources in areas that will improve quality, increase access, and lower costs. Where should we be investing?
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Tools for providing student feedback

As a former High School English teacher, I have experienced the overwhelming tsunami of having to provide feedback on a weekly basis to ~150 students. Between that experience and my more recent experiences teaching online students, I've thought a lot about providing feedback on student writing and student products.
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Is It The Shoes?

It's the end of the semester, so it's time to get trivial!
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Math Geek Mom: Motherhood, a Radical Idea

Central to the subject of Economics is the idea of “utility maximization.” This concept proposes that people choose the optimal assortment of work, goods and leisure given the constraints they face. As calculus is applied to compute such choices, it is assumed that the economic agent is strictly self-interested, an assumption I find myself thinking about as we celebrate Mother’s Day this weekend.
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Retreat! No, Advance!

In which I find being confined to an 8 x 12 room (with breaks for lunch) totally liberating.
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What’s New at University of Venus? Week Ending 12 May 2012

What’s New at UVenus: Anamaria Dutceac Segesten at UVenus at The Guardian Not for love or for money – why...