By Matt Zalaznick. A potentially positive higher ed economic indicator is that more institutions purchased student information systems in 2013 than had done so in any year since 2008, according to a recent market analysis by The Tambellini Group. More...
By Matt Zalaznick. Adult students are treating themselves to a higher ed buffet through a handful of programs where all-you-can-learn tuition lets them move as quickly as they can toward a degree and advancement in the workforce. More...
By Oronte. Crownfeathers and Effigies. Jerry Bradley. Lamar University Press. March 2014. $15.00.
By Herman Berliner. University Business recently reprinted an article from the Orlando Sentinel noting that University of Central Florida students were protesting a Florida law that students who “take at least 10 percent more credits than required for their degree will pay double for the extra classes.” And as noted in the article, the UCF Student Senate “unanimously opposed the surcharge and asked that it be scaled back.”
When I started college, I really didn’t know what I wanted to major in. Read more...
By Tracy Mitrano. I have had an interesting week at work. On Tuesday I met the newest Federal Trade Commissioner, Terrell McSweeny. Responding to a tweet she made about student privacy, I wrote her. Thank heavens our democracy still does exist, she offered an invitation to talk. Very grateful for the opportunity, I used the time to share with her my concerns about student privacy in general and FERPA in particular in light of some unregulated practices in education enterprise cloud computing. Read more...
By Emily VanBuren. Before you ask, yes, I am aware that my title sounds like something a nineteenth-century anthropologist might pen. And yes, I am aware that nineteenth-century anthropologists might not be the best role models. But I want to suggest, here, that developing our own classification schemes for our writing can be extremely beneficial to our writing process and to our emotional well-being. Read more...By Emily VanBuren. As an historian, I spend a lot of time in the archives, rifling through dusty old boxes in search of treasure for my dissertation. Learning how to do archival research has been an exercise in learning to work more efficiently. Because grant budgets can only go so far, it’s important to make use of every minute when visiting faraway libraries and repositories, capturing as much information as possible to bring home with me. Here at GradHacker, we’ve featured many tools for organizing your research data once you’ve already collected it. Read more...By Erin Bedford. Hopefully, our grad student friend will one day find a balance between fearing that she doesn’t know enough and thinking that she knows everything. Underestimating what she knows can lead to impostor syndrome, while overestimating it leads her to academic arrogance. She isn’t alone—many of us find ourselves drifting between the two during our studies. Read more...
By Margaret Andrews. Steve Jobs famously mentioned a poster he saw as a young boy and how the message stayed with him throughout his life, helping him to know when it was time to make a change. The poster Jobs remembered said something to the effect of “If you live each day as if it were your last, one day you’ll most certainly be right.” Read more...
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