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Remembering Steve Jobs
For the past few years, Twitter has been the source for breaking news. Last night, I started seeing several tweets...
On being seduced by The World University Rankings (2011-12)
Well, it’s ranking season again, and the Times Higher Education/Thomson Reuters World University Rankings (2011-2012) has just been released. The...
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i suppose in the middle of the road of my life i’ve entered not a dark wood exactly but something...
Tolerance for Ambiguity
“That’s stupid.” As a professor, I gritted my teeth every time I heard a student say that. It was an...
ABC's and PhD's: Part-timers
Joshua Kim wrote an interesting post in his blog on Monday about voluntary part-timers. His thesis is that part-time workers...
Commandant to President
Gen. Charles C. Krulak sees lessons in his military career for his new job in higher ed.
A Little History of Philosophy
Will a new series from Yale University Press aimed at young readers (and the occasional grown-up) catch fire? Scott McLemee takes a look.