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If Stephen Colbert Did the Annual Kickoff Meeting...

(in the style of "The Word") Faculty and distinguished colleagues, (Slide: "And the undistinguished among you, too...") welcome back from...
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Demand and Supply

One of the challenges of catalyzing a transformation of higher education towards an active learning model is that students are...
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Whack-A-Mole

Keeping with the amusement park theme from yesterday (variations on a theme park?), most of yesterday was devoted to a...
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Finding One's Way By Losing It

As comforting as lamentation can be, colleges and their leaders will waste an opportunity if they respond to the economic crisis with frugality and caution, David E. Shi writes.
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Mothering at Mid-Career:A Sort of Homecoming

There's a crispness to the air today, a snap that makes me think fall is on the way. New England...
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My Business Development Idea for Insidehighered and Amazon

Dear founders of InsideHigherEd and Jeff Bezos. Please get your business development people together to create the following service: the...
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Structures and standards

Of late, when I speak of a "structural problem", it's not about an older outbuilding on my farm that's in...
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Inside a Search

When a philosophy department receives more than 600 applications for a tenure-track opening, how does it make a decision? Lou Marinoff describes the process.