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What Glen Retief Knows
Writer Glen Retief grew up in a South African game park during the apartheid era but emigrated to the U.S...
Long Distance Mom: Edupunk
When I first heard the word, I thought, ‘Edupunk sounds like the kind of educational strategy that my son Nick...
Acronym Soup
This confession is really awful for an academic administrator, but it’s true. My brain has run out of space for...
Loyalty or Desperation?
From the archives - this post was originally published at http://uvenus.org on 2010.06.30. I didn’t teach last semester (Winter 10)...
ABC's and Ph.D.'s: Unemployed!
All good grants come to an end… and the one that has supported me half-time at the university for the...
Sinecures and Sunsets
Too many management books are written from the perspective of the CEO. Most managers aren’t CEO’s; they’re somewhere in the...
Discipline (or Punish?)
Deanna wondered not too long ago at UVenus about where she belongs in the world of academia: student, administrator, researcher...
Using social media to enhance engagement, yield, and retention
Schools, a Facebook application from Inigral, was first featured on Inside Higher Ed in the summer of 2008. The Schools...