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• Robo-lecturers.

  
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  Those of us who read University Diaries regularly know that UD hates PowerPoint. I’m of the “PowerPoint is a good tool that can be terribly misused school,” but no matter where you fall on this issue I still think she’s missed something important from this post she’s dug up : His lectures are all ...
  15 hours ago

• Isn’t that slavery (or at least a blatant violation of American labor law)?

  
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  Some contingent faculty in California state schools are apparently now teaching for free . This news leaves me with many questions. The top of the list would be: Isn’t that slavery (or at least a blatant violation of American labor law)? Seriously, think about it. Do these people still have to sign a contract ...
  6 days ago

• “Is it April 1 already?”

  
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  The Chronicle of Higher Education ( via RYS , of course) is trying to tell us that the chickens really love it when Colonel Sanders fries and deep-batters them, but the comments on the article suggest otherwise.
  3 weeks ago

• The 3rd best job in America?

  
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  The brutal attack on this story over at RYS (where I first found it) is much deserved. Just tell any adjunct in any university in the country that they have the 3rd best job in America and they’ll probably laugh at you. And the insane notion that there’ll be 23% job growth among college professors in the ...
  4 weeks ago

• The good news is there’ll be less time for committees.

  
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  If you Google the newly-popular term “Higher Education bubble” you get stuff like this : With tuitions, fees, and room and board at dozens of colleges now reaching $50,000 a year, and with publicly-subsidized institutions now averaging $26,800 per year, the ability to sustain private higher education for all ...
  4 weeks ago

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