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Life with keyboards

My six-year-old is too young to understand the impact Steve Jobs will have on her life. However, she unintentionally paid...
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The Fund-Raiser Is Your Friend

Many professors are wary of their campuses’ development offices. In the debut of a new column, Elizabeth H. Simmons explains how successful interactions can help the faculty and the institution alike.
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Welcome to the Occupation

Protest spreads from Wall Street to cities throughout the country. Scott McLemee interviews four professors who are tracking the movement.
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Netflix's Qwikster Reversal and Higher Ed: 3 Lessons

The news from Neftlix CEO Reed Hastings "no change: one website, one account, one password … in other words, no...
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What is a Blog Post?

“What’s the point of this?” “Poorly argued.” “This isn’t about anything.” Lee Skallerup I’ve read these comments at the bottom...
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You! Out of the Pool!

This kind of situation gives administrators fits, since there’s no easy answer. Let’s say a student is so disruptive in...
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Moneycollege

Higher education is due for the kind of data revolution that has so changed our thinking about success in baseball, writes Ryan Craig.
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Columbus Discovers Illinois

Columbus arrived triumphantly here in the Midwest this past week, dressed in his embroidered robes and that pincushion hat thing...