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  • Alma Mater

  • A new college president ponders liberal education and the changing landscape of academe.
    • College Try
    • By Jeff Abernathy September 21, 2010 4:15 pm EDT
      • One doesn't grow up wanting to be a college president. Firefighter, yes. Doctor, certainly. But college president? Even the principal's kid wouldn't have thought of it. But here I am, starting out my first academic year at Alma College, a liberal arts college I've known and admired for years. For colleges and universities, presidential transitions offer a great opportunity to answer lingering ...
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  • Confessions of a Community College Dean

  • In which a veteran of cultural studies seminars in the 1990’s moves into academic administration ...
    • Tossing Bottles
    • By Dean Dad October 17, 2010 9:43 pm EDT
      • As a teenager in the 1980’s, I saw most of the important teen movies of the era. One of the staples of 80’s teen movies was the moment when the screwup hero realized that he had imbibed (or allowed others to imbibe at a forbidden party) much of what was in the parents’ liquor cabinet -- these houses always had well-stocked liquor cabinets -- and didn’t want to get caught. Invariably, ...
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  • Digital Tweed

  • Digital Tweed
    • The 2010 Digitial Puck Awards
    • By Kenneth C. Green October 17, 2010 9:00 pm EDT
      • Last week The Campus Computing Project announced the winners of the 2010 Digital Puck™ awards. The announcement was the part of my EDUCAUSE conference presentation summarizing the results of the 2010 Campus Computing Survey. The awards – admittedly arbitrary on my part – reference the widely cited comment of hockey great Wayne Gretsky: asked why he was so much better than many of peers, ...
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  • Getting to Green

  • An administrator pushes, on a shoestring budget, to move his university and the world toward a more ...
    • Moderation and mayhem
    • By G. Rendell October 17, 2010 8:30 pm EDT
      • Just a couple of quick thoughts.First, a recent study from NASA/Goddard re-emphasizes the level of CO2 as the primary driver of climatic temperature, but presents a wider range of possibilities than we normally hear about. For example, the modelers set the level of CO2 to zero, and watched how quickly the Earth (or, at least, the simulated Earth) froze. Perhaps, rather than emphasizing "CO2 is ...
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  • GlobalHigherEd

  • Surveying the Construction of Global Knowledge/Spaces for the ‘Knowledge Economy’
    • Field-specific cultures of international research collaboration
    • By Heike Jöns October 15, 2010 12:46 pm EDT
      • Editors' note: how can we better understand and map out the phenomenon of international research collaboration, especially in a context where bibliometrics does a patchy job with respect to registering the activities and output of some fields/disciplines ('Understanding international research collaboration in the social sciences and humanities')? This is one of the questions Dr. Heike Jöns ...
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  • Law, Policy -- and IT?

  • Tracy Mitrano explores the intersection where higher education, the Internet and the world meet ...
    • Sexuality, Technology and Student Life
    • By Tracy Mitrano October 1, 2010 11:32 am EDT
      • How is the young man who was in the room with Mr. Clementi doing? Thankfully, for him, we don't know his name, nor am I curious. Only concerned. If Mr. Clementi felt profoundly rattled by events, one can only imagine how he feels. The media, having gotten ahold of this story, has expanded the scope and amplification of the private act between him and Mr. Clementi many orders of magnitude beyond ...
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  • Library Babel Fish

  • A college librarian's take on technology
    • The GSU E-Reserves Case: Good News?
    • By Barbara Fister October 10, 2010 8:45 pm EDT
      • I've been following the Georgia State case in which publishers sued the university over e-reserves and am trying to read the tea leaves in the federal district judge's recent ruling on the motions to dismiss filed by each side. It looks like good news for now. If you're unfamiliar with the case, here's the gist of it. Three large scholarly publishers - Oxford University Press, Cambridge ...
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  • Mama PhD

  • Mothers attempting to balance parenthood and academics
    • 3 Lives in the Rutgers Tragedy
    • By Susan O'Doherty October 17, 2010 5:35 pm EDT
      • Like most people I know, I was shocked and saddened by the recent suicide of Tyler Clementi.I have to admit, though, that I am also disturbed by the intensity of expressed rage at the two students who violated his privacy. What they did was wrong, even unconscionable — but they are eighteen years old, by definition works-in-progress.When I have expressed this concern to friends, it is most ...
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  • Provost Prose

  • A provost examines the world on campus and in higher ed.
    • K-12 education leads the technological way
    • By Herman Berliner October 17, 2010 6:34 pm EDT
      • My kids are in 4th grade and in 7th grade. Two week ago we had “meet the teacher night” for the 4th grader and last week we had “meet the teacher night” for the 7th grader. For the 4th grader, her education is centered around one teacher. For the 7th grader, the day has nine separate periods — one is for lunch; the remaining 8, for 7 subjects since English has a double period of time. ...
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  • Reality Check

  • The Reality Check blog, from John V. Lombardi, follows the endlessly fascinating parade of ...
    • Watching the Money
    • By John V. Lombardi August 20, 2010 12:15 pm EDT
      • How will it all work out? The budget is a mess, the economy weak, the quality of high school graduates in decline. Tuition and fees are on the rise, for profit colleges under attack, and US News continues to issue rankings. We hear that the costs of big time college sports grow larger, that the rich schools stay rich and the poor schools get poorer. We see more faculty in adjunct status. Many of ...
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  • Technology and Learning

  • A space for conversation and debate about learning and technology
    • EDUCAUSE 2010: The Conference and the conference
    • By Joshua Kim October 17, 2010 9:30 pm EDT
      • I've come to believe that at EDUCAUSE, there is the Conference and the conference. The Conference (large C) is what happens at sessions, the exhibitor floor, and the parties. The conference (small c), with an emphasis on the first two syllables (confer), consists of all the discussions that take place in hotel suites and in small rooms on the vendor floor. The people who go to the conference, ...
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  • The Education of Oronte Churm

  • Oronte Churm, lecturer in English, writes about the weird and sometimes beautiful thing we call ...
    • You’re Good, and I’m Proud of You
    • By Oronte October 17, 2010 12:00 pm EDT
      • The Youth Literature Festival held here last weekend and sponsored by the College of Education featured an appearance by author Jim Aylesworth, whose work you likely know if you have children or are younger than 35. He’s written 33 books, including updates of the gingerbread man story, Goldilocks and the three bears, and the classic The Mitten, as well as original stories such as Old Black Fly, ...
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  • The World View

  • A blog from the Boston College Center for International Higher Education
    • Challenges in higher education for Chile’s new government
    • By Andrés Bernasconi October 11, 2010 9:30 am EDT
      • A new government was inaugurated in Chile in March 2010. The incoming administration, headed by President Sebastián Piñera, is the first right-of-center government since the re-establishment of democracy in 1990. It arrives in the wake of four consecutive left-of-center governments held by the political parties grouped in the Concertación alliance, one of the most successful coalitions in ...
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  • University Diaries

  • A professor of English describes American University life.
    • Department of Complaints
    • By UD October 15, 2010 10:32 pm EDT
      • Last June, Inside Higher Education noted a legal case against the University of Calgary, filed by two students there who had been punished in various ways for making highly critical comments about a professor whose course they'd taken. Students are of course free to make highly critical comments about professors, and they shouldn't face suspension or lawsuits for making them. The Calgary students ...
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  • University of Venus

  • GenX Women in Higher Ed, Writing from Across the Globe
    • Conversations that Count
    • By Denise Horn October 17, 2010 9:45 pm EDT
      • Today I received the first royalty check for my first book, Women, Civil Society and the Geopolitics of Democratization. It was an exciting moment--payment for my work! Knowing someone actually bought my book! A little extra cash when I wasn't expecting it! It made my morning that a whopping 130 copies of my book were somewhere, out there, in the world. I am, I told myself, part of the academic ...
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Archived Blogs


  • Adviser in the Classroom

  • In which an academic adviser and political theorist tries his hand at science.
    • “Solar,” Part 2
    • By Dermot O'Brien April 19, 2010 11:15 pm EDT
      • There’s lots of science and mathematics in “Solar” and given Ian McEwan’s reputation as a very assiduous researcher and given whatever I’ve picked-up in “Energy & the Environment,” I think that most of it is not bullshit. But, of course, that assumption does not apply to physicist Michael Beard’s brand new process for solar power. The process involves reverse engineering ...
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  • Getting Back to #1

  • A group discussion on efforts to improve opportunities for college students.
    • The Truman Commission Redux
    • By Arthur Levine August 9, 2009 11:39 pm EDT
      • In his previous post, Jamie Merisotis makes a compelling case for the importance of seeing American higher education in the context of higher education worldwide, and for treating our system of higher education as an imperiled competitive advantage.As Jamie notes, U.S. educational attainment “has remained flat for 40 years” -- a fact all the more worrisome in light of rising college ...
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  • Keywords From a Librarian

  • A librarian writes about teaching and information.
    • FUNQs: Won’t Ask, Won’t Tell
    • By Mary W. George November 1, 2009 8:59 pm EST
      • Today I have the urge to address a perennial, insidious, and unnecessary condition that afflicts higher education in this country. It results from the most Frequently UNasked Question (by students) that is also the most Frequently UNanswered Question (by faculty): What is a primary source?The silence surrounding this question is deafening. Undergrads are oblivious to the issue, think they already ...
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