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30 juin 2013

Pitching “the pitch”

By Liz Koblyk. For reasons best known to the gods of coincidence, I’ve recently been in several formal networking situations. In those situations, some people have used pitches, and others have not. Here is what I have noticed about pitches:
1) If the conversation is going to last more than 10 minutes, it might just make sense to make your pitch right at the start. In fact, forget about it being a pitch – it’s an introduction to who you are in the context of the work you want to do. So, when you’re launching that informational interview, go ahead and say why you’re considering the career that you are, and what made you think you might be good at it. This helps shape the direction of the conversation and lets the other person know why you’re there. Read more...

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30 juin 2013

While the journalism industry contracts, journalism programs continue to expand

By Léo Charbonneau. If you take a look at Canada’s J-Source journalism website, under the “business of journalism” category, you would quickly conclude that journalism as an industry continues to decline. On the site you’ll find article after article on media layoffs, buyouts, dropping advertising revenue, the shuttering of regional and ethnic newspapers, and on and on (and those examples are from just the last six weeks). However, journalism programs at colleges and universities are a growth industry, said Janice Neil, an associate professor of journalism at Ryerson University and editor-in-chief of J-Source. Read more...

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30 juin 2013

Gender Issues in European Academic Science

By Athene Donald. This week has seen me travelling to Vienna and Bratislava for a meeting of the European Research Council’s Scientific Council. Travelling between the two cities along the Danube by fast boat provided a rare treat of a little relaxation fitted into the normally intense work of such a committee meeting. I am still learning the ropes, getting to grips with acronyms (of course) and structures; this was only my second formal meeting of the Council and the ways of Brussels can seem a little mysterious to newcomers. I also attended my first meeting of the Gender Working Group, a group chaired by fellow Council member Isabelle Vernos, who contributed to the recent Nature Special focussing on gender. In her article there she included some ERC statistics and put the case against quotas. There is absolutely no doubt that the ERC takes the issue of gender very seriously and it worries about the statistics surrounding the success rates for women in the various rounds of awards. The figures are not good, as their 2012 Annual Report makes clear. (see data below) Yet the reasons for this are many and complex – and to some extent still unknown. The good news is that the figures are being collated and analysed. The bad news is that there is no simple fix. Read more...

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30 juin 2013

Poli Sci? Really?

By Matt Reed. About once a week, the New York Times runs a piece that’s deliberately, rather than incidentally, about creeping philistinism. This week’s entry, The Decline and Fall of the English Major, is a mostly unremarkable example of the genre. But it included a statistic that made me sit upright: In 1991, 165 students graduated from Yale with a B.A. in English literature. By 2012, that number was 62. In 1991, the top two majors at Yale were history and English. In 2013, they were economics and political science. Read more...

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30 juin 2013

Striving for Simplicity

By Dayna Catropa. As explored in a previous StratEDgy post, we all tend to think that the more choices we have, the happier we will be. Generally, markets and competitive forces allow organizations in an industry to provide a range of affordable products and services from which consumers can choose. This is mostly positive - we have the freedom to select the product or service that best meets our needs. Read more...

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30 juin 2013

Pipelines

By Matt Reed. Achieving the Dream and the Aspen Institute have issued a report saying that the pipeline of potential successors to all of the community college presidents who are likely to retire in the next few years is looking thin. It’s looking at revamping Ed.D. programs to make candidates more appealing and/or prepared. Read more...

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30 juin 2013

Program Quality and Live Online Class Discussions

By Joshua Kim. Here are some of the questions that I would ask If I were a potential student evaluating the quality of an online degree program:
1. Does the class have a regular live online meeting scheduled?
2. How often does this meeting take place?
3. Is the class meeting designed and run by the course faculty member?
4. What is the average number of students in the meeting?
5. What synchronous online learning technology is utilized for this class meeting?
6. What is the educational philosophy that informs the design of the class meetings?
7. Are student groups provided with an online meeting platform for small group work?
In my experience it is the answer to these 7 questions that often provides a window into understanding the quality of inputs and investments into an online course or program. Read more...

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30 juin 2013

A Warning to My Colleagues

By Matt Reed. I wasn’t surprised by a new study showing concrete benefits for low-income students who attend Early College High School programs. The study used a random lottery to assign certain students to Early College programs, while keeping other, otherwise-similar students out. Attendance in the programs is positively correlated with subsequent college enrollment and graduation. Programs like that can do wonders for kids in difficult circumstances. They can demystify college, making it seem real. Read more...

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30 juin 2013

Nepotism Follow-up: Inconsistent Hiring Practices

By Jane Robbins. My last post produced a lot of comments, the most since another issue centered on individual versus institutional interests, collecting royalties when assigning one’s own textbook. As with all issues on the fuzzy boundary between law and ethics, it’s a tough and often emotional issue. There was also a kind of defense essay, one which I think rather served to underscore my points and to in fact raise further questions about whether we really need (or want) spousal hiring. But I wanted to answer here one particularly complex question that I received anonymously and that may have broad applicability to many institutions. Read more...

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30 juin 2013

If sustainability is to unify

By G. Rendell. One of the considerable number of campus sustainability wonks whose opinions I respect is Dave Newport at UC-Boulder. Dave's on AASHE's Board of Directors, and he publishes a generally insightful blog. His latest post sets forth the gravity of the situation facing sustainability in higher ed, thoroughly grounded in the gravity of the situation facing advanced society. On the whole, what he says makes good sense. Read more...

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