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31 août 2014

The quest for change in higher education

By Stefanie Botelho. First American’s 5th Annual Peer Discussion event at the Seattle Space Needle during NACUBO (National Association of College and University Business Officers) was facilitated by David Helfand, former Columbia University professor and current president of Quest University – the first private university in Canada, which opened in 2007 with an innovative approach to higher education. Helfand shared his insights on the current education system in America and his mission to redefine it in Canada. More...

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31 août 2014

Boycott Boycotts

By Liz Reisberg and Philip G. Altbach. Let us start out with the premise that most readers should agree with—universities are not established to be ideological organizations. Subsequently, universities should take corporate political positions only with extreme care. A related principle is that universities, as part of their commitment to academic freedom, should welcome all opinions on campus and permit unfettered free speech. This includes speakers who have been invited to campus by academic or student organizations even if their views have been rejected by segments of the university community. More...

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31 août 2014

Accreditation

By Herman Berliner. I just recently completed being the first reviewer of the periodic update prepared for an institution’s regional accreditor. I was also the second reviewer for another institution in this geographic area. And, in addition, I was very involved in preparing our own periodic review which was due at the same time. Overall, I have been involved with the regional accreditation and the regional accrediting agency for decades. Read more...

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31 août 2014

Internet Culture Policy and Law

By Tracy Mitrano. It is that time of year again for the Internet Culture Policy and Law Program! At its inception in 1995 called the “Computer Policy and Law,” and then as of 2001 the “Institute for Computer Policy and Law,” we recently renamed it “Internet Culture Policy and Law” (retaining the ICPL acronym) to reflect content shifts over time. Once the only program of its kind, it remains higher education’s go-to conference for issues revolving around, well, the Internet, its culture, law and policy writ large (international, national, institutional and operational). It has always been in gorgeous Ithaca, New York, and is sponsored by Cornell University’s Continuing Education Department. This year the dates are September 17-19. Read more...

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31 août 2014

Starting the Academic Year

By Lee Skallerup Bessette. It's all over my social media feeds, and all over campus: school is starting up again. Adjuncts are finding their courses suddenly canceled or taken away (or, possibly worse, their salaries cut for various "reasons"). Everyone is making their syllabus, ordering books, discovering the limitations of the space they've been afforded to teach in. New jobs are starting, old jobs keep going on. Read more...

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31 août 2014

Scanning the Library Horizon

By Barbara Fister. It’s funny how much the popular image of libraries is highly traditional, considering how fascinated by the future librarians typically are and how quickly librarians embrace new technologies. References to shushing never seem to go away, and in an era when most of the library’s budget goes to licensed content, the firm belief that libraries are still mostly about books is hard to shake. We could fold into this the gendered nature of the image of librarians, who are imagined to be prim women of a certain age who wear buns and sensible shoes while doing hyper-clerical work whereas IT folks are inventive, adventurous young men with a deep knowledge of secret arts. Yet despite the image (and I can’t wait to read a new book about it) librarians’ work is deeply tied to technology. Likewise, librarians seem to continually try to predict the future in terms of technological change, as they do in a special Horizon Report about library futures. Read more...

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31 août 2014

On Study Abroad, Conscripted Dances, and Mysterious Natives

By Oronte. Three-thirty pm in Limpopo province in northern South Africa, just a few miles south of the Zimbabwean border. It’s early winter here, the middle of May, but like García Marquez’s mythical Macondo, these scorched mopani-and-baobab lowlands—and the people who live in them—know nothing of natural ice. Outside, the red dust of Matiyani village scalds human feet; makes children run, laughing, for the shade of thatch overhangs. On the granite hillocks, goats and cattle pant for water. Read more...

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31 août 2014

Mediocre is the message

By G. Rendell. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- the world's most prestigious assembly of climate scientists -- is preparing to issue the Synthesis Report from its Fifth Assessment Cycle. That report has been submitted to member governments for comment. After government comments have been reviewed and, as appropriate, incorporated, the final Synthesis Report will be issued on November 2 of this year. Read more...

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31 août 2014

The Politics of Tasteless Jokes

By Susan O'Doherty. I have been taken to task before on this site for taking leaps of logic and assuming everyone else was jumping with me. That happened again last week. I tried to address it in the comments, but my reply got stuck in moderation, either because the moderator is a comedy critic or because I used the word "penis" once too often. Read more...

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31 août 2014

My Grad School Transcript

By Joshua Kim. How closely connected is your current academic work to what you did you grad school?
I find it interesting, telling and a bit ironic, that my academic career has been all about teaching and learning, initially in the classroom, now in our Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning. Subjects that never really crossed my mind as a grad student. Read more...

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