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Role Reversal
Maybe it's time for a new kind of instructor evaluation of students, writes Rob Weir.
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Where Do You Hide?
A couple of weeks ago, Lee pitched an idea for bringing several of us at UVenus together around a single...
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Ten Years, Man! Ten! Years!
No, not how long I’ve been an IHE blogger (see below); our wedding anniversary. Mrs. Churm and I had already...
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Ask the Administrator: Marked for Life?
A new correspondent writes: This is something I have been thinking about for about 6 months, but your two columns...
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The Year in Reading
Was there a book that rocked your world in 2010? Scott McLemee asks around.
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Luck and the Ph.D.
The Economist makes a convincing case that pursuing a Ph.D. is, at best, irrational. In " The Disposable Academic" (12/16/10)...
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What is a Course in Higher Ed?
My 200-level students last semester proposed or redesigned a university-level course for their final assignment.* They were allowed to make...
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Rights and the General Welfare of Society
In response to my last blog, John commented very keenly. By the time I was finished with a rejoinder, it...