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22 mars 2014

A Year After 'Leaning In'

By Laura Tropp. I was at a meeting this week with about twenty people. We could not all fit around the conference room table, so someone brought in extra chairs. I ended up seated at the edge of the crowd, nowhere near the conference table. I make a joke about how, seated where I was, I wouldn’t be able to “lean in.” Apparently, I was the only one who found it funny (maybe this wasn’t a Sheryl Sandberg crowd?). Read more...

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22 mars 2014

St. Patrick's Day

By Susan O'Doherty. As I have described here before, all of my Irish Catholic relatives (and there were a lot of them; both my maternal grandfather and my father came from large families) disowned my family because we were heathens and going straight to hell. I grew up not identifying as Irish at all. The extended family that did embrace my brother and me was my maternal grandmother's. They were of French and English descent and could trace their American roots to the Revolutionary War. That was the heritage I identified with, since that was the world that welcomed me. Read more...

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22 mars 2014

Dr. Doctorstein's Guest Post

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By Joshua Kim. Who is Dr. Docorstein? He provided a bio that reads “Dr. Doctorstein teaches at a small, cash-starved state university where all the faculty are smart, all the administrators are good-looking, and all the IT staff are above average.”
Dr. Docorstein asked if I’d be willing to publish a guest post in response to my blog post on The Ed-Tech Establishment. Read more...

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22 mars 2014

#SAgrad Students: Writing and Googling

By Eric Stoller. This post might get under your skin. It might provoke you a little bit. If you feel your hackles rising, my apologies. This post is not an indictment of all Student Affairs graduate students. There are many amazing scholars within #SAgrad programs. For the record, I'm mostly referring to our masters level students with this post. #SAgrad students, for the most part, are competent researchers and writers. However, I get an alarmingly high number of inquiries via email from our graduate students that are rife with issues that cause me to take countless amounts of umbrage. Read more...

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22 mars 2014

Talk Them Out Of…

By Matt Reed. Every so often you hear something in a meeting that makes you stop short, because it so neatly encapsulates a difficult truth. That happened yesterday. Someone who works here mentioned that her job is to “talk students out of Nursing.”
She was exaggerating, of course, but substantially correct. Sometimes talking students out of something is one of the most valuable things we can do. Read more...

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22 mars 2014

Gatekeeping is Exclusionary, Study Finds

By Matt Reed. The Department of Obvious Studies has been working overtime. Last week, it issued a report showing that despite much of our political rhetoric, students are, in fact, different from each other. This week, it issued a report showing that students whose transfer credits are denied are less likely to finish a degree on time than students who don’t have to retake (and pay for) courses they’ve already taken. Apparently, when a college puts up high barriers to completion, completion rates drop. It’s almost as if barriers somehow get in the way. Read more...

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22 mars 2014

Kennesaw Agrees to Restore Art Installation

Kennesaw State University has agreed to restore an art installation that officials ordered removed from its art museum last month. The work dealt with the the homestead of Corra Harris (1869-1935), an author who gained unusual prominence in her era for a female writer -- and whose career took off when she penned a piece widely viewed as a apology for lynching, full of racist stereotypes. Read more...

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22 mars 2014

de Man Overboard!

By Scott McLemee. Evelyn Barish's The Double Life of Paul de Man, from Basic Books, is a scandalous volume, in at least a couple of ways.
At the most obvious level there is troubling nature, even after all this time, of the "the de Man affair" -- the discovery, in 1987, that the preeminent figure among the literary theorists at Yale University had published a substantial body of literary journalism in a Belgian newspaper when it served as a mouthpiece for the Nazis during the occupation. Read more...

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22 mars 2014

University of London criticised over student's chalk slogan conviction

By Jack Grove. Open letter includes cleaning cloths with guide on removing any further ‘unwanted chalk marks’. Academics have criticised the “needlessly vindictive and wholly disproportionate” prosecution of a student protester who wrote a slogan in chalk on the University of London’s foundation stone. More...

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22 mars 2014

The paucity of higher education research centres in Canada

By Ian D. Clark and Ken Norrie. An excerpt from Making Policy in Turbulent Times: Challenges and Prospects for Higher Education. One of higher education's many paradoxes is that the sector values research but devotes little effort to scholarly inquiry about how to improve the performance of the higher education sector itself. This is particularly so in Canada compared to other English-speaking countries, contend Ian D. Clarke and Ken Norrie in a chapter from the recent book, Making Policy in Turbulent Times: Challenges and Prospects for Higher Education. In this excerpt, the two authors elaborate. More...

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