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Ask the Administrator: If You Could Build a System...
An Australian correspondent writes: I n Australia we're hearing about the benefits to students of being taught by Faculty who...
Think globally, AASHE regionally
OK, just one more post emanating from AASHE 2008, and then I won't mention it again. I promise. Unless I'm...
Another View of Bias
William Major writes that he can't imagine punishing or rewarding a student for political reasons. But he wonders how much grades may be determined by whether professors like or dislike students.
Ask the Administrator: Selling the New Dean on an Idea
A new correspondent writes: I'm a postdoc at a big research university. We have a confluence of events at our...
The Catharctic Half-Light -- Norman Maclean, Part Two
Norman Maclean, an Aristotelian, learned deeply what Aristotle taught: tragic art is cathartic. Toward the end of his life, he...
Breaking hab - its hard to do
Over the last year or so I've gone to 1 or 2 conferences, taken 1 or 2 training classes, visited...
Desperately Seeking Dubuffet
It’s interesting and strange to me how easy it is to sink into a willful belief that the Internet has...
The Economy and College Student Health
The burgeoning financial pressures on institutions increase the need for them to look for creative ways to make health insurance more affordable, not less, for their students, writes Jon Englund.