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The Missing Guidance

The best mentoring colleges could provide junior faculty members would be to offer clear guidelines for tenure and promotion, writes Kerry Ann Rockquemore.
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Accreditation in an Era of Open Resources

With colleges no longer the sole keepers of knowledge, credentialing should shift from exclusive focus on institutions to providers of content, writes John C. Cavanaugh.
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Grateful for My Students

They're not perfect, but neither am I.
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Internationalization in practice: A Visit to Hong Kong

Less than a month ago, I returned from a working visit to Hong Kong. I benefited from a scholarship awarded...
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YouTube for Schools and Lecture Capture

YouTube announced YouTube for Schools today, a variant of YouTube designed to be more education friendly.
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Handling Holiday Stress

In this post, Andrea Zellner talks about how to deal with the stress of grad school over the holidays. Whether it be that you are agnostic about the holiday season or not, there really seems to be no escaping it. With campus closing down for next few weeks, the pressures build as we prepare for gift giving, traveling, and generally surviving the holidays. On Monday, Amy Rubens gave us some sage advice about how best to prevent potential mishaps that result when leaving our grad school homes for our homes of origin. While troubleshooting is one excellent way to handle and prevent some of the stress associated with this time of year, I believe there are particular stresses that are come with being a graduate student at the holidays.
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Accrediting Higher Education in Peru: Coming late to the party

Peru is one of the last countries in South America to implement an accreditation program for higher education. And the experience has been different than elsewhere.
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Watching and Learning

Bob Blaisdell reflects on a little-discussed aspect of teaching a foreign language.