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13 avril 2014

Gently Letting Go of the Fax Machine

By Eric Stoller. "What's your fax number?" It's a question that should never be asked. Period. We have to stop faxing. I know, it's not going to be an easy task. For example, certain campus departments are still fax fans. You know who they are...you might even work there. Human resources, contracts and accounts, and anyone who deals with reimbursements. Yes, I'm generalizing. Some of the above listed areas are quite modernized. However, some offices are still holding onto their fax machines with an embrace that is quite affectionate. Read more...

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13 avril 2014

The Lost Art of Doing One Thing at a Time

By Katie Shives. Today I submitted my very first grant application to the NIH. Funny thing is, until yesterday I thought I had 6 days to submit. However, I did not factor in early submission deadlines, so thanks to a well-timed reminder from our Grants and Contracts office I suddenly realized I had less than 24 hours to finish a grant package with all of the supporting materials or else all of my hard work would be for nothing. How did I get it all finished in time (other than lots and lots of coffee). Read more...

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13 avril 2014

The Wonderful Thing About Peak Higher Ed

By Joshua Kim. First, before we tackle Bryan’s excellent essay Has Higher Ed Peaked?, I just want to let loose an an idea into the wild that Bryan Alexander should receive a MacArthur Genius Award.
Do you know anyone (save perhaps Barbara Fister or Audrey Watters) who would better use this money/platform more to change our ideas about higher education. Read more...

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13 avril 2014

Charles Barkley Doesn't Tweet

By Joshua Kim. Charles Barkley is the only professional sports talking head actually worth watching.
And Charles Barkley does not Tweet.
During the halftime shows for this year NCAA men’s tournament Sir Charles made a point of saying that he is not on Twitter. Read more...

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13 avril 2014

The Museum Vanishes

By Barbara Fister. So, this week we heard that just about everything online that we thought was secure was actually vulnerable and we have to change our passwords, but not until platforms we’re using have fixed their SSL problem because if we change our password before the fix, the new password can be intercepted. We’ve had this gaping hole in our security for a couple of years. I’m not even sure how many things I signed up for and forgot about in that period of time. So far as I know, the NSA didn’t put this hole in the OpenSSL software library, but they have built small broken places into Internet standards that they can use to bypass privacy. Read more...

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13 avril 2014

AACC, Day Three: Choose Your Own Message

By Matt Reed. The final day of the AACC conference was incongruous in the way that big conferences usually are. It had a high-profile speaker -- in this case, Colin Powell -- and it had panels relegated to Scheduling Siberia, or 7:30 in the morning on the final day. It followed Vice President Biden’s announcement of the Registered Apprenticeship College Consortium, which is intended to spread the apprenticeship model to health care and IT, with a panel on the RACC that barely mentioned health care and ignored IT altogether. So it was inclusive, but with some relegated to the margins; it was a followup, but forgetfully. You could choose your own message. Read more...

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13 avril 2014

AACC Day Two: Bidens and By-The-Ways

By Matt Reed. After the bitter shot of espresso that was the first day of AACC, I decided to split the second day between the official conference and the unofficial one. Academic conferences run parallel programs. The official program is what gets printed in the, well, program: panels, plenaries, and the like. The unofficial one is the people you bump into during the day. When the official program gets a little same-y, stuffy, or bitter, the unofficial one can redeem it. So a bit of each. Read more...

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13 avril 2014

AACC, Day One

By Matt Reed. Every so often, it’s fun to play “roving reporter.” I’m at the American Association of Community Colleges conference in Washington, D.C. All I need is a trenchcoat, a fedora, and a pencil. So far, the conference is more scold-y than I’ve seen in the past. It seems to reflect a sort of anxiety of generational change, with the folks on their way out getting in some parting shots while they can. That phase may be inevitable, but it isn’t much fun to watch. Read more...

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13 avril 2014

The Government

By Matt Reed. The Girl and I were playing catch yesterday in the front yard when the conversation took an unexpected turn. And I swear, I am not making any of this up.
TG: Dad, when you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?
Me: I don’t remember. A bunch of things, really. Read more...

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13 avril 2014

Marked for Life

By Matt Reed. “Jones said that faculty members were concerned not only about Katharine Gibbs’ practices but also that Generals had been part of the for-profit sector at all.”
Should past employment in a for-profit college forever bar someone from working in public higher ed?
(Clears throat)
No.
The issue came up last week when some faculty at the Community College of Philadelphia objected to the institution’s new president, in part on the grounds that he had once worked at a for-profit college. Read more...

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