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The wrong locality

There's been an ongoing exchange on the Green Schools list (GRNSCH-L@listserv.brown.edu). In a nutshell, it simplifies to: Question: Is X...
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Get in the game

According to Newsday (and reported worldwide), IBM and folks at Los Alamos have just raised the bar on computing power...
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Access Without Support Is Not Opportunity

To reach disadvantaged students, colleges need to move beyond minor curricular enhancements and build on bolder initiatives being tried at some community colleges, writes Vincent Tinto.
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Ask the Administrator: Introducing Faculty Rank

A new correspondent writes: I teach at a smallish CC with no tenure system and no faculty rank designations. Technically...
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The Career Coach Is In: Advice to a Wandering Twentysomething

This week, I’m going to include the full letter from a reader, because I think it’s a great illustration of...
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PROFESSOR MEETS GUN: Part Three

In the museum tower of the NRA headquarters, there's first a little store, and then a little theater with a...
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PROFESSOR MEETS GUN - PART TWO

"The next station is... Be - THES - da." Ah, 'thesda, UD's stomping grounds. Her childhood home, her blue state...
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The Ineffability of Happiness

Is happiness the phylum in the kingdom of hope? It’s a little hard to tell, since the subspecies of happy...