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My Other Stuff
One of the added benefits (for me, anyway) of revealing my real name is being able to share other published...
All for Nought?
The decade is winding down. Scott McLemee wonders what it was all about...
National Service
Every election year, we start to get proposals for various national service programs as ways to pay for college. The...
An announcement and an accounting
First the announcement: the RSS feed is fixed. Those of you who aren't into RSS don't care, but some of...
'Telling' Hard Truths About War
With American society divided for and against the war, returning veterans tend to be viewed more as issues than as...
Louisville Sluggards
An alert reader sent me a link to this article in the Louisville Courier-Journal. Apparently, Kentucky passed some 'reforms' about...
The Future of Accreditation?
Judith S. Eaton looks ahead to 2014, when the events of the past year may have laid the groundwork for irrevocable change in federal regulation of higher education.
Who's Your Audience?
As an academic on a national job search, I read Richard Florida's latest, Who's Your City?, with mixed emotions. Florida...