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Administration Ambitions
I have something to admit: I know that I eventually want to go into administration.
Tool Roundup: Productivity Helpers for the New Year
A new year brings a renewed resolve to really get things done. As graduate students, finding strategies to improve productivity are worth their weight in gold. While there are countless mobile and web applications that can improve one's workflow, I thought I would highlight a few here that have helped my workflow in my three main "resolution" areas: teaching; research and writing; and staying healthy.
Is It About Resource Finity?
Two discussions of recent events, by their extreme difference in tone, have me wondering.
Recalibrating Expectations for eTexts
Most CIOs believe eBooks are ready to have their moment. The time has come to reassess these expectations, drawing on current data on both acceptance and pricing.
Rationing and Rationality
Apparently, a few California community colleges have taken to rationing seats. Since their funding is entirely disconnected from their enrollments...
Publishing, Education and "How A Book Is Born"
If you work in higher ed, you fall asleep every night asking yourself the following questions: Will we suffer the same fate as the record industry, the bookstores and the newspaper business? Is higher ed another example of a physical, as opposed to a digital, information industry - and therefore ripe for disruption? If the core business model of education is built on scarcity, will we survive this transition to information abundance?
Mothering at Mid-Career: Still juggling
Today is the first day of the new semester. I don’t teach until Wednesday, but it was my daughter’s first day on our campus as a full-time student. After two and a half years elsewhere, she’s spending a semester with us, saving money for a summer trip abroad and getting a different perspective on what it is her parents do all day.
Nuancing of Access and Success
Because the nation is rightly fixed on improving degree completion rates, the discussion about America’s higher education agenda is at risk of becoming so pedestrian that terms like access and success lose their meaning. In similar fashion, once everyone and everything became “green” it was less clear to me what was meant by a “green economy,” “green jobs” or “green politics.”