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28 avril 2017

How to Develop a Strategic Writing Plan

By Nue Lee. I recently read an article where writers’ daily routines were romanticized albeit with useful information. Japanese writer Haruki Murakami spoke to the importance of a routine: “I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind.” I tie this idea of repetition in a routine with a recent graduate student workshop I attended on how to develop a strategic writing plan. More...

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28 avril 2017

Alt-Ac Careers: Academic Librarianship

By Regina Sierra Carter. Have you ever considered an alt-ac career in academic librarianship. More...

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28 avril 2017

Of Caves and Conferences

By Matt Reed. I loved teaching the allegory of the cave. It’s from Book 7 of Plato’s Republic, and it’s considered one of the classic moments of Western thought. Socrates tells the story of people who live in a cave but don’t know it. More...

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28 avril 2017

Such As…?

By Matt Reed. Yesterday’s post, a call for new approaches to leading colleges, lead to a round of questions that boiled down to “such as…?”. More...

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28 avril 2017

Cutting Your Way to Greatness

By Matt Reed. Has cutting your way to greatness ever worked? I can’t think of a time that it has, yet it remains a common default mode. More...

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28 avril 2017

'Centrism'

By Matt Reed. Policies vs. labels.
As a trained political theorist, I’m inherently skeptical of anyone who loudly claims the mantle of “centrist.” It doesn’t mean what some people take it to mean. More...

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28 avril 2017

Stakes Aren’t Cheap

By Matt Reed. The Accuplacer is a placement test often administered to students during the admission process. It has several components, each addressing a different skill: reading, writing, arithmetic, and algebra. More...

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28 avril 2017

Truth and Rallying

By Matt Reed. A new study suggests that “intellectual humility,” defined as the serious practice of the idea that you could be wrong, is one of the most important traits of people who make good decisions. More...

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28 avril 2017

Friday Fragments - April 13, 2017

By Matt Reed. Tim Burke’s recent piece on academic bullying had a line that made me chuckle in rueful recognition. According to a faculty survey done at Swarthmore, most faculty agreed on two points:
1. Faculty-to-faculty bullying is pervasive and often severe
2. The administration absolutely should do nothing about it
In a nutshell, that’s the dilemma of administration. More...

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27 avril 2017

Gadgets and Distractions

By Matt Reed. It's too easy to assume that all distractions are electronic, or that all electronics are distractions. More...

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