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14 juin 2015

Ask the Administrator: Can They Take My Stuff?

By Matt Reed. A new correspondent writes:
I’ve taught in nursing program at a nearby CC in an interim position in the department PT/FT for the last 3 years. They hired a FT person for the fall. On the last day of class, the person they hired -- who was team teaching with me -- asked the students for copies of my PPTX etc. Read more...

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14 juin 2015

What Smart People Look Like

By Matt Reed. Dear Hollywood,
Did you know that many of the smartest people in their fields got that way through hard work?
It’s true! But you wouldn’t know it from portrayals of smart people on tv. It’s getting pretty bad. Read more...

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14 juin 2015

Acceleration

By Matt Reed. I didn’t expect to read about a three year degree at Wesleyan. When higher ed types talk about accelerating the process of degree completion, they’re usually referring to less selective -- and often less expensive -- places. Elites are typically assumed to be perfect just the way they are. Read more...

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14 juin 2015

Creating Emergencies

By Matt Reed. Jen Ebbeler has a thoughtful and thought-provoking post up about the virtue of skipping the “pilot” stage of a new enterprise and instead jumping in with both feet. Read more...

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14 juin 2015

The Harvard Challenge, Revisited

By Matt Reed. A Harvard University alumnus donated $400 million to endow the institution’s engineering college…
One person donated the equivalent of eight years of HCC’s entire operating budget to one subunit of one university. The entire gift is tax deductible, of course. Read more...

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14 juin 2015

Initiative Triage

By Matt Reed. I loved the piece on Sinclair Community College’s student success efforts earlier this week in IHE. It’s worth checking out, but the short version is that SCC has been doing student success initiatives long enough that it’s starting to do a sort of initiative triage, culling the ones that either haven’t worked or that provide far too little bang for the buck. Read more...

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14 juin 2015

Unbundling the Organization

By Matt Reed. No, college tuition bills are not just like cable bills.
Jeff Selingo argues that they are. In a piece in the Washington Post this week, he focuses on “bundling” as the common denominator. Read more...

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14 juin 2015

Early Feedback from Florida

By Matt Reed. As a political scientist by training -- one of the disciplines that trains the most leaders, apparently -- I’m generally skeptical of anything labeled “early results from Florida.” The reliability of such things tends to be iffy. Read more...

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14 juin 2015

The Best Part of Graduation Season

By Matt Reed. Charlie Parker, the pioneering jazz saxophonist, once mentioned to one of his bandmates that he really liked country music. Puzzled, the bandmate asked why. Parker responded “The stories, man. The stories.” Read more...

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14 juin 2015

Study Views Academic Publishing as an Oligopoly

The five largest research publishers (a group that changes a bit by discipline) started publishing half of academic papers in 2006, up from 30 percent in 1996 and 20 percent in 1973, according to new research published Wednesday in PLOS ONE by researchers at the University of Montreal. The piece argues that this concentration has reached oligopoly status and poses dangers to academic publishing. Read more...

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