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What a Difference a Week Makes
Last Monday, Hurricane Sandy was still being spoken of in the mainstream media as a threat to the East Coast. By late Tuesday, the vocabulary had changed -- Sandy was a "super-storm", flooding was pervasive and (for too many) fatal, and climate change was here and now. Denialists may not have changed their tunes all that much, but (at least in my perception) the tide (sorry about that, folks) of public climate discourse in North America had turned. The operative phrase seemed to be "new normal". Nobody who used it was smiling.
Sandy
It is now Monday morning and we are resuming classes today. The campus has been very fortunate. Our loss of power was limited and of short duration and the campus damage was mostly limited to trees with very little other damage. Long Island’s damage was extensive with reports of 100,000 homes lost and almost 300,000 homes still without power 5 days later. The devastation on the north shore and south shore of the Island was massive.
Making Campus Work-Study Work
Colleges and universities agree that student success is their central focus. But what important factors contribute to student success? An under-emphasized contributor is student campus work.
Who Is This “Admin” You Speak Of?: Some Myths of Alternative Academics
The alternative academic career path has recently caught a lot of attention from all angles of academia, in part because of the state of the job market for PhDs and in part because more and more alternative academics are talking about their career paths. However, this does not mean that many in academia know what an alternative academic career entails, especially when oftentimes alternative academics are filed under “staff” or “admin.”
What William Gillespie Knows: Keyhole Factory
Novelist and publisher William Gillespie weighs in on indie publishing, experimental fiction, why he didn't go the adjunct route, and together, we develop some new slang.
Did MOOCs Just Make Landfall? 10 Questions to Consider
It seems we may have another big, unpredictable storm close to home – MOOCs. They have been getting a lot of press this year, including another recent article from the New York Times.
EDUCAUSE and the Productivity Agenda
If I could choose one theme that I hope resonates with EDUCAUSE attendees this year it would be around productivity.
Fingers Crossed
Coming up on the election, I’ve got my fingers crossed. On the upside, at least the campaigns will be over. That little girl who cried about “Bronco Bamma” spoke a basic truth: we’re all tired of the ads. I can only imagine how bad it must be for people living in swing states. My state has some drama of its own, but it’s pretty much a foregone conclusion at the presidential level, so that has helped contain the madness. The folks in Ohio must be thoroughly sick of it all by now.
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