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ABC's and PhD's: "New Year's" Resolutions
Every year at this time I re-evaluate my daily schedule and get ready for the start of the new year...
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Wrong Things, Rightly Named
An Eastern European thinker knows what to call the practices covered in the CIA report. Scott McLemee follows his lead....
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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...