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MOOCs, IP, Academic Integrity and Credit Hour Law and Policy
MOOCs are all the rage, and there is nothing wrong with that, although don't count on it lasting in its...
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Grandiosity Run Amok
Lawrence Lokman examined imaging slogans being used in higher education, and he's not impressed with the results.
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Rethinking Area/Asian Studies
In an early 21st century era of austerity, is it is time to end the dominance of "methodological nationalism" and take advantage of the "opportunity to create a truly global social science"?
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Ask the Administrator: The Doctor of Arts Degree
A new correspondent writes: "I've been teaching college English as an adjunct for a few years (in addition to my full-time gig at a high school). I love teaching college and want to move into it full time. I have a BA and an MA in English right now. My question for you is, from a community college hiring perspective, is there more value in a PhD than a DA (doctor of arts)?"
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Sleep-Away Camp and Higher Ed: 8 Thoughts
This past weekend we dropped our younger daughter off at sleep-away camp. As we were helping her carry her trunk and meeting her counselors and bunk mates I had the following thoughts:
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Mothering at Mid-Career: Midsummer, Moonrise Kingdom, and breaking routines
Midsummer may have been last month by the calendar, but it’s July that feels like the middle of the summer. If I’m truly honest with myself, the middle of my summer passed a few weeks ago, but with six weeks (yikes! Only six?) until the start of classes, mid-July seems close enough. For six more weeks, my time is unscheduled, my routines refigured by heat, an office renovation, and—most importantly—a respite from classes and committee meetings. I’m gloriously unscheduled, free of routine … mostly.
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What the Patriot Act Wrought
A NYT article, More Demands on Cell Carriers in Surveillance, resounds with the theme that technology has disrupted the Fourth Amendment jurisprudence in communications. It is also a testament of what the USA-Patriot Act has wrought not because that Act created the gap but because it exacerbated it. More than a decade later, that which has been lost in the bargain becomes more obvious.
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Rebrand Yourself
Too many service responsibilities? Not enough research time to push for full professor? Kerry Ann Rockquemore writes that it's time to change your departmental image.