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Ask the Administrator: Building a Community College
A Tennessee correspondent writes: Does building a new community college make economic sense for a cash-strapped community? Where can one...
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Scathing Online Schoolmarm
A professor at the University of Colorado sends SOS the following intriguing letter a freshman there wrote to the campus...
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Modest proposal #8 - Steal some good songs
I once heard Waylon Jennings -- former guitar player for The Crickets -- describe someone (not, to my knowledge, a...
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You Want ME to Write the Institutional History?
Steve Weinberg describes how it went when a journalism school turned to him -- an investigative reporter on its faculty -- to memorialize its centennial.
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Not Pretty in Pittsburgh
An alert reader sent me links to these articles from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review about a power struggle among the Westmoreland...
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French Theory
A forthcoming book takes a fresh perspective on how poststructuralism conquered America. Scott McLemee checks it out.
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Overseeding
A poem by Laurence Musgrove, whose campus was shut down for the start of the week because of a threat.
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Publishing: Now for the Masses 2
Print on Demand (POD) books have been around for several years, but their production quality wasn’t good, since they’re not...