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On messages and bottles and such
According to emails that have come across my screen, students from Seattle, WA to Cambridge, MA are organizing to ban...
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Learning to Teach Tech-Savvy Students
Shari Dinkins considers the reading and resources she used to rethink her use of technology.
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Ask My Readers: Questions for Some Bigwigs
Scott Jaschik, at Inside Higher Ed, will be moderating a panel at the AACC meeting in Philadelphia entitled "Community Colleges...
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Spring Break
The way I read this chart by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Americans are spending on average only 20...
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The Truth? I Can't Handle the Truth!
Harvard University Press has just issued a book promulgating a JFK assassination conspiracy theory. Let's put that sentence on the...
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Ask My Readers: When the Bench is Thin
A longtime reader and correspondent writes: In my academic program, our dean will be retiring in 4-5 years. We have...
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Campus conservation conundrum
As I write this, I’ve just finished reading an online article from Scientific American, about how the oldest, toughest, thickest...
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A Real Charge for Faculty Service
Laurence Musgrove reflects on applying the concepts of project management to the way professors plan programs.