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2 mars 2014

On the Draft Framework for Information Literacy

By Barbara Fister. When the Standards for Information Literacy Competency in Higher Education came out in 2000, I thought they were a step forward. We were broadening our concept of information literacy, which was (at last) far more than the nuts and bolts of how to use a library. I thought at the time that it made it very clear that information literacy had to be a campus-wide endeavor, not a library project. Read more...

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2 mars 2014

Possible New Gen Eds

By Matt Reed. Rebecca Townsend asked a great question recently. Should public speaking be a general education requirement?
First, some definition. Most colleges have certain skills that they want every graduate, regardless of major, to have. Those skills -- in edu-speak, “general education outcomes” -- dictate certain course requirements for students across majors. Read more...

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2 mars 2014

An Open Letter to Textbook Publishers

By Matt Reed. Dear Textbook Publishers,
I have a question for some of you. Having been in administration for quite a while now, I know that sometimes things that seem easy and obvious from the outside, aren’t. So I’m wondering if there’s a smarter answer to this than anything I can figure.
Why aren’t all of you issuing all of your major textbooks in formats that are accessible to students with disabilities? Read more...

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2 mars 2014

Markets and Rules

By Matt Reed. It took me a few attempts to read this piece in the New York Times, about for-profit colleges, to figure out why it bothered me as much as it did. It’s not the subject matter, exactly. It’s the inattention to basic detail, based, I think, on a fundamental theoretical mistake. Read more...

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2 mars 2014

Privacy in Higher Education

By Tracy Mitrano. Last week I wrote about the weak points in higher education regarding advances in promoting privacy and information management. Today I would like to suggest three objectives every institution should strive to achieve to build awareness and promote good policies and best practices.
1. Reform the Family Rights Education Privacy Act (FERPA)
Congress passed FERPA in 1974. It is one of the first federal public privacy laws. Its age shows by comparison to more contemporary ones. It has no specific technical security safeguards, for example, and it famously has cost higher education much anxiety and yet not a dime. Read more...

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2 mars 2014

Addendum on Privacy

By Tracy Mitrano. As I read last week about data breach at the University of Maryland and now about Indiana, what can be said about the relationship between privacy and security? I left the conclusion out of yesterday’s post. Consider this one an addendum. Information management is what must be said, and done. It is the bridge between human practices and technical safeguards. It is what connects “information” and “technology.” It is the higher business order of these two necessary components, privacy and security, to the comprehensive institutional goals of effective and efficient governance, compliance and risk management. Read more...

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2 mars 2014

What's Current in Privacy?

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By Tracy Mitrano. The last two blogs were about what should be done. This one is about some progressive initiatives. In terms of national policy, the Snowden disclosures have re-opened an important conversation about electronic surveillance laws. We are all in charge of keeping that conversation going to the very least conclusion of updating privacy laws such as the Family Education Rights Privacy Act, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986; the Electronic Communications Privacy Act also of 1986; the U.S.A.-Patriot Act of 2001 and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, originally of 1978, updated in 2008, but evidently in need of further revision to balance civil rights and national security. Under the heading of consumer privacy, President Obama commissioned a study a couple of years ago that compiled a consumer Bill of Rights. Recently, he pushed the issue further by asking John Podesta to explore more carefully “big data” consumer issues. Read more...

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2 mars 2014

Interview With a Person Who Paid Off $48,000 in Student Loans in Four Years

By Jacqui Shine. Marnie Gallowy! The Internets told me that last week—eight years after you graduated from our ol’ alma mater—that you paid off the last of your $48,000 in student loan debt. IS THAT TRUE? Are you a wizard?
Hey JShine—you found me out, I’m a wizard! My student loan debt totaled $48,000 and change ($33-ish from undergrad, and $15K from a poorly advised year in grad school). The bulk of my undergrad debt was federal student loans, but bundled in there was a nasty $8K Sallie Mae with a 12 percent interest rate. My grad school debt was also a mix of federal and private, but the private loans I got at that time were comparatively reasonable. More...

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2 mars 2014

Teaching evaluations

I taught a large lecture course of 300 students last semester. Five graduate student teaching assistants (TA) ran the associated discussion sections. I just got their course evaluations. Here's the overview (overall score plus a typical written comment):
TA 1 overall score: 5.64/7.00
"Great presentation of subject matter, just a little too wordy sometimes." More...

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2 mars 2014

What the hell is my professorship for?

The other day, I came across this article from The Guardian that lamented the fact that Obama seems to have mitigated the second term of his presidency away by drifting from one crisis to another. The author contrasts Obama’s “drift in principle and policy” with LBJ’s response when an aide argued that his desire to pass the civil rights bill was not realistic. More...

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