May 2012
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Naomi Schaefer Riley must not read a lot of...
The Higher Education InterWeb (TM) has been kind of blowing up the last couple of days with responses to Naomi Schaeffer Riley’s Chronicle post on the legitimacy of ‘Black Studies’ as a discipline. Her evidence? She sites what appears to be three in process dissertations based on a reading…of their titles. Now listen, there’s a lot of hay to be made about the...
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“let me suggest a few things that I think that a president who is charged with...”
– From Susan Reseneck Pierce’s essay on how college presidents succeed. Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2012/05/02/essay-how-presidents-succeed-or-fail-promoting-change#ixzz1tk6Jt340 Inside Higher Ed
Harvard, MIT, and EDUx: Learning On and Off Site
I downloaded the Khan Academy app (and itunes U) a couple of weeks ago. There are some statistics refresher courses on both that I intend to do before I start my doctoral program in the fall, but I haven’t actually tried to learn anything yet. I was doing Code Academy’s “Code Year” program- for a little while anyway. All of which to say is that my understanding of distance...
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“Let’s all pay for our student load money with the money we would pay for pap...”
– “Romney Takes a Turn on Student Loans” The Chronicle (via stillinmediasres)
Has anyone ever tried to do a people's atlas on... →
Student Activism, Social Media, and the Egyptian... →
April 2012
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