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The Missing Points in the Agent Debate
By using agents we are saying, in effect, faced with a challenge, turn to someone who can provide you with an easy answer.
Good and Board
I serve on an excellent board of education and I have worked with enough boards over enough years to be able to identify the difference between an effective board and a detrimental board.
Encouraging Department Chairs
Leaders of academic departments are underutilized in fostering change and progress in higher education, writes Marian Stoltz-Loike.
Ice Buckets for English?
Randy Malamud is searching for a way for higher education to inspire the kind of philanthropy and public support that has gone viral in the last month for another worthy cause.
Managing Your Advisor
The most helpful habits to develop in working with your advisor.
Friday Fragments
College niches, defending a generation, human nature.
Lulz and Dissent: A New Book on Anonymous
A new book explores the trickster roots of Internet-based collective activism.