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Friday Fragments
See you in the exhibit hall theater at MLA 13 Friday at 1:30! IHE bloggers Mary Churchill, Nate Kreuter, and I will be on the “Career Advice” panel. I’ll offer tips for job candidates who are considering community colleges.
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Data and Craft
I still remember the terror and thrill of having my own class to teach for the first time.
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Barriers to Entry
My fellow IHE blogger, Lee Skallerup Bessette, got a bit of a discussion going on Twitter over the break when she posted a real estate listing for an abandoned college campus. In the context of adjunct activism, she proposed pulling people together to buy the campus and start their own college.
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And on a Lighter Note...
The Girl tried out for a part in the church Christmas play. The play is based on the nativity scene.
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Administration and Critique
Last week, IHE featured a story about a prominent professor at Texas Tech whose bid for a deanship was denied on the basis of his stated opposition to the tenure system. This week, a court upheld the termination of an HR director for stating her opposition to gay marriage. Although one case is much more sympathetic than the other, they really address the same issue. Should administrators be allowed to raise policy objections in public?
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Corporate Governance, Shared Governance, and Higher Ed
The only thing scarier than higher education with administrators is higher education without them. Last week, Lee Skallerup Bessette and Paul Fain both had thought-provoking pieces in IHE about StraighterLine and the possibility of “freelance” higher education.
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Sandy Hook
We’ve stopped in Sandy Hook any number of times over the last few years, driving between Massachusetts and New Jersey. It’s a cute little town just off route 84, about halfway between Danbury and Waterbury. It has several good lunch places, and a lovely upscale toy store in an old house that couldn’t be any more New England-y if it tried. Behind the toy store there’s a creek with several decks overlooking it, and if I remember right, even a mill wheel. The last couple of times we were there, we spent more time than was strictly necessary, just because we liked it so much.