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Demise of a Good Idea
College lobbyists cited privacy issues to kill off "unit records," writes Kevin Carey, even as they use a similar system for their own purposes.
Compromise and Precedent
Money shortages create all manner of frictions. Say you have a large group that believes, with varying levels of truth...
NEW FORCES IN THE SOUL
Let me combine two university-related subjects I've been promising to write about -- online courses, which I've called the poor...
What David Bowen Knows
As I wrote in a couple of earlier posts ( here and here), I’ve long had an interest in independent...
ABCs and PhDs: It's the Journey not the Destination
Each year some 57,000 newly awarded PhD’s enter the job market – way too many for all to find positions...
Sex: The Revolution
Are cable TV writers cribbing from Foucault? Not exactly. But Scott McLemee is keeping an eye on them anyway.
Another Kind of Resource
This semester, I think my cc has set a new internal record for public presentations. We've been staging talks on...
A cool (actually, warm) map
This interactive map showing current (not projected) global warming impact requires that you have Google Earth installed, but you probably...
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