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Missing Nora Ephron
Jill at Feministe linked to Nora Ephron's 1996 commencement address at Wellesley. The entire speech is worth reading, but this...
What’s New at University of Venus? 30 June 2012
What’s New at UVenus: ● Sarah Emily Duff for University of Venus at The Guardian with Could ebooks be the...
Who Would Have Thunk It: A Higher Education Preference for Microsoft?
A decade or more ago when I began work in higher education administration, many a nose looked down on Microsoft. For some time now that perspective has been changing.
Summertime and Course Redesign
Inviting as a summer off from teaching looks, it can be an ideal time to redesign one's courses, writes Benjamin Rifkin, who lays out his strategy for doing so.
Flunking Out of Clown College
In the debut of a new humor column, Mark J. Drozdowski describes his difficulties training for the circus life.
How dependent on foreign (non-EU) student fees is the UK (2010-2011)?
How dependent on foreign (non-EU) student fees is the UK (2010-2011)? Very much so, though at variable levels.
Trouble With Transparency
What’s happening at U.Va. is hardly an isolated phenomenon, though this example is more public than most. In fact, the focus of my dissertation research is this process of “strategic change” at universities, how it’s imagined and implemented, and how it’s perceived and experienced by organizational participants.
Google IO and the "Education Story"
My response to Joshua Kim's story yesterday about the lack of education-related news at Google IO.