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Long Distance Mom: Mean Girls and Boobs
Made you look, huh? I put “boobs” in the title, knowing that it would draw attention and to make a postmodern point. Not that I really need to make one, after ‘Mr. Family Guy’, the Academy Awards host, made it for me.
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Advice From Tenure-Track Faculty To Those Entering The Profession
When we asked people that have been working in higher education for more than a year for advice to people entering in similar positions to them, we received a wide variety of suggestions. In this post we’ll share what tenure-track faculty (who represented 17% of all combined 464 survey respondents) would advise those just entering the tenure track.
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I'm Not Going to the AWP Conference, and I Feel Fine
There's some aspects of the AWP conference that trouble me. Is it me or the conference? Both?
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Leaders for Small Colleges
W. Kent Barnds considers the skills that may be particularly needed during a period of dramatic change in higher education.
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Let's Get Small
Jeremy Bernstein's "A Palette of Particles" offers a guided tour of the subatomic universe. Scott McLemee goes on a trip.
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Taking time to think about expectations for women in undergraduate science
Decades of research in higher education has sought to understand why students come to STEM fields and why they leave. This has been especially true for women in science degree programs.
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Teaching with GoogleDocs
Welcome to another entry in our loosely-defined-yet-still-exciting teaching with technology series. This week: Teaching with GoogleDocs!
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EdTech Questions about Phoenix
My edtech antennae went up when reading Paul Fain's article yesterday on Possible Probation for Phoenix. It is clear from both the article and comments that this is an important and complicated story.