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Buying the Professor a BMW
Are parents really paying more for higher education, and, if so, is the added money going into faculty members’ pockets? Perry Zirkel and Jean Johnson ask.
Rx for Foot-in-Mouth Disease
What should you do when you feel like bursting the cartoon bubble over your colleague’s head? Or your own? An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, Maria Shine Stewart prescribes.
Attendance
I’ve never really come to terms with taking attendance in college classes. Maybe it’s me.
'Objectivity' and Avoiding Our Responsibility to Read
Mark Bauerlein’s recent critique of the scholarly habit of producing a voluminous amount of research in literary studies that is rarely cited has prompted a number of responses.
Bad Female Academic: Emotional Wreck
Bad Female Academic is back! This time, I'm wondering what the difference is between being over-emotional and geeking out. (Hint: gender!)
Two Worlds Colliding
So, I'm having the learning experience of a lifetime. I'm in doctoral student heaven.
Math Geek Mom: Off to Faraway Places
Economics is sometimes called "the Dismal Science," and I admit that I try to counteract this by bringing entertaining topics to my Economics as well as to my Math classes. My hope is that these topics will leave the student with a "hook" that will help them remember what was said.
E-Book Questions for 'On Being Presidential'
Totally excited to see On Being Presidential: A Guide for College and University Leader (with an IHE tie-in) available in paper and e-book. When I clicked on the ad on IHE today I was taken to this site. $40 bucks for the paper version, and $19.99 for the e-book.