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Should All Majors, Not Just Computer Science Majors, Learn to Code?

Lots of people are making the New Year's resolution to learn to code. Is it time we make programming a requirement for college graduation for all majors, not just CS students?
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Administration Ambitions

I have something to admit: I know that I eventually want to go into administration.
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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.
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Is It About Resource Finity?

Two discussions of recent events, by their extreme difference in tone, have me wondering.
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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.
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Your Role in the Debt Crisis

Students are borrowing too much, and everyone in higher education has work to do to cut costs, writes Michael Bugeja.
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Rationing and Rationality

Apparently, a few California community colleges have taken to rationing seats. Since their funding is entirely disconnected from their enrollments...
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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?