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How Do You Know?
This week, nearly everyone on campus has been talking about Jared Lee Loughner. Aside from the obvious shock at what...
CES 2011, Motorola Atrix, and Higher Ed
Dean Dad mostly covered the CES 2011 landscape. For my part, I've been spending some enjoyable time on the web...
Do we need a technology in student affairs book?
"The literature and research on the use of technology in student affairs is still very limited." This is the lead...
Math Geek Mom; Squares and Diamonds
In geometry, we study the “Euclidean motions in a plane”, which include translations (sliding a figure across a plane) as...
Battling With the System
A familiar truism about academia is that the battles are so big because the stakes are so small. Academics will...
A Program Is Not a Plan
If colleges want to make real improvements on retention and graduation rates, they need to think about the entire institution, not any one effort, however worthy, write John N. Gardner and Andrew K. Koch.
Motherhood After Tenure: Why I did not attend the MLA
Last week Inside Higher Ed published an anonymous piece by someone who has decided to leave academia entitled, "Because." The...
Professional Development Days
Like many colleges, mine requires a few days each year for faculty and staff professional development. They’re tolerated somewhat grudgingly...