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Final Exams
An alert reader sent me this link to a Boston Globe story about Harvard eliminating its final exam period. We’ve...
ABC's and PhD's: Settling Families into Sabbaticals
The other day a friend of mine asked if we had an extra TV kicking around that we could do...
Community Means Us, Part 2: A Response from Andrew Hacker, Co-Author of Higher Education?
A few days after my guest post "Community Means Us," an account of my experience in a community college, went...
The wheels go round and round and it comes off here . . . and how . . . and why
One last (for now) thought about bikes. I was walking across campus last week, and a first-year (I'm presuming) student...
Technology Leadership and Tech Leaders
The EDUCAUSE Conference begins today in Anaheim. This annual gathering of higher ed’s tech tribes and tech providers is part...
My 3 Dream EDUCAUSE Publisher Announcements
Do you dream about big publisher announcements coming at EDUCAUSE? Do you also fantasize that the major publishers, the McGraw-Hill's...
Deans and Free Speech
In a nutshell, this is why I write under a pseudonym. Apparently the University of Connecticut fired a dean who...
Mothering at Mid-Career: Beet Cake, Redeemed
A commenter on my post from a few weeks ago asked for the recipe for the beet cake that actually...