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Creating a Degree for 10K
Governor Rick Perry of Texas recently challenged educators to offer degrees costing $10,000 ( A College Degree for $10,000). “He...
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Drill, Baby, Drill?
I like tigers. The animal, that is, not the human variety that has cropped up lately. Amy Chua’s book “...
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Mater: De Facto et De Jure
“One baby, one book,” my adviser told me, when as an ambitious, twenty-three-year-old, Marshall Scholar at Cambridge University, I announced...
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An Open University
What will the university of the future look like? If we are to believe Bill Gates, it will be open...
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Is Changing Higher Ed Really Possible?
For all of my pie-in-the-sky musings about why you should blog, I have become increasingly troubled by a nagging feeling...
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Lessons on Health and Well-Being for Academics
My university has one of the worst health records around. In the past five years, four colleagues and two staff...
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Men Swagger, Women...?
Since I became an administrator, I have had a yearly performance evaluation. Over all, they have been positive, but I...
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Our Wise Politicians
Do we need politicians with a serious academic background to increase the general quality of the public debates? Or, is...