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Transforming Terror
If 9/11 "changed everything," what did killing Osama bin Laden do? Scott McLemee looks at an anthology on the climate of terror.
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ABC's and PhD's: Call it a day
I was taken with the “What do professors do all day?” blog that Libby pointed to in her blog a...
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Amazon and the Absent Conversation with Higher Ed
Amazon.com should get to know us better. We'd like to get to know Amazon. What company is so entrenched in...
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The Achilles' Heel of the For-Profits
Quick -- what’s the fatal flaw of for-profit higher ed? Adjuncts? Nope -- the nonprofits invented the genre, and have...
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What Are You Teaching Next Semester?
I have been an adjunct for almost a year now. Last January, amid a flurry of stress, and uncertainty about...
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Saudi Arabia's Extravagant Investment in Higher Education: Is Money Enough?
At a conference in Riyadh last month we were privileged to meet senior officials at the Ministry of Higher Education...
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Time and spaces
One of the patterns I noticed while investigating sustainability-related academic programs at various institutions was that many of them seem...
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Things Have Changed
“I’m not a communist,” I said cryptically to a class the other day after I’d come in and sat down...