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The Laptop Ban: It's Not Just for Classrooms Anymore
More and more professors -- hell, entire departments -- are banning laptops from their classrooms. Now the business world's doing...
All Those Administrators...
This story caught my eye. According to a study by the National Center for Educational Statistics, the percentage of full-time...
Evaluating Writing
Little Truths contest judge Steve Davenport is currently hunkered down with your entries—cogitating, masticating—and I strongly suggest we give him...
An edgy question
A correspondent asks, after posting a description of steps taken toward sustainability: “ a student emailed me asking broader questions...
Ask the Administrator: A Career in a Crisper
A new correspondent writes: Within the last year I've completed my PhD in English. In thinking about future jobs, I...
Constructive research
Three new construction technologies which will improve the energy profiles of future buildings: One is available right now, and it’s...
Ask the Administrator: Grad School Funding Follies
A new reader writes: I have a question for you based on personal experience. I am ABD in a humanities...
Global Warming is the new Sputnik
Even if you don’t remember 1957, you’re probably aware of the influx of funding, research and science majors which US...