By Oronte. Nothing to protect the stories of seclusion and safety they'd built up. Stories everywhere, breaking down. It was a strange time. Something would need to be done. More...
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By Oronte. The epigraph ("The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men / Gang aft agley...") at the start of this multi-part series is often remembered as a poem about personal failure, or else is conflated with Burns’ “Auld Lang Syne” as sentimental melancholy in the face of change. In fact it’s mostly about expansion, technology, nature, resources, unintended cruelty, uncaring, and incompatible ways of life. That is, it's about our time. More...
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By Oronte. "We fly a 'Come and Take It' flag in front of our establishment because we believe the federal government has gotten too big and that it's reaching out too far," the proprietor of a roadhouse north of San Antonio told NPR. When they asked him who was coming to take what, he said, "Our rights! Our freedoms!". More...
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'Meltdown: Why Our [Higher Ed Tech] Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It’
By Joshua Kim. Why I added “Higher Ed Tech” to the title of this book. More...
Is Academia.edu Worth $99 A Year?
By Joshua Kim. Online reputation tracking for alt-acs, and the monetization of the higher ed status economy. More...
Thinking About Dual Academic Jobs as a Single Academic Career
By Joshua Kim. Are you also one-half of a dual-career academic couple? How do you do it. More...
3 Reasons Why Kids In Business Class Is Annoying
By Joshua Kim. And how this could possibly relate to higher ed. More...
Googling "How To Be A Director of Digital Learning Initiatives”
By Joshua Kim. When I first got my current gig a couple of years ago, I may not literally have Googled, “How to be a director of digital learning initiatives?”.But that description of how prepared I was for the job, and how I tried to figure out how to do the work, would not be far off. More...
Two Ways to Read 'Microtrends Squared'
By Joshua Kim. Ignore the political explanations, but do use this book to help in campus small talk. More...