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• in Lifestyle
  Is Higher Education Doomed (Part I): Driving Off a Cliff Near You - The State-Run University
  State-run universities are being crushed by funding cuts that are threatening the value of a college degree.
  by paulkiser / on Jan 31, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “higher ed”

 

• A Geography game using Google Street View – Geogessr

  
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  Think you really know Geography?  Geoguessr is an online game that uses Google’s Street View.   With a small map in the corner of Google’s Street View, you pin where you think the Street View scene is.   You then submit your guess and the distance from the real location is measured.     It’s […]
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• David Foster Wallace: "This is Water"

  
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  His 2005 commencement address at Kenyon College, now as a short film [ full text ]: This is Water - By David Foster Wallace from The Glossary on Vimeo .
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• Bad at Math

  
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  Ben Orlin , who is now a math teacher, has a fabulous personal essay on What It Feels Like to Be Bad at Math . An excerpt: As the day [of my presentation in the seminar class on topology] approached, I began to panic. I called my dad, a warm and gentle soul. It didn’t help. I called my sister, a math educator ...
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• Geoff Campbell Prezi

  
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  Geoff Campbell Skills and Experience I recently created a Prezi about my skills and experience related to higher education communication and public relations. Take a look here. Filed under: #hesm , #heweb , higher ed , Newhouse , Newhouse School , PRL 604: Writing for News and Public Relations , PRL 605: ...
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• Maybe college isn’t for everyone. But it’s probably for you.

  
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  Stephanie Owen’s and Isabel Sawhill’s Brookings report, “Should Everyone Go to College?” is getting a great deal of well-deserved attention. But some of the coverage misses the report’s main implication. The Wall Street Journal opened their article, “Even in a weak job market, the old college try ...
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• Developing Future Faculty

  
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  I joined Jeff Nugent and David McLeod for a final podcast for this Spring’s GRAD-602 class.  For the past 15 weeks, we explored “ Teaching, Learning and Technology ” with our VCU Preparing Future Faculty students.  We comment today on our perceptions about this class and the future they face in higher ...
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• More On The Higher Ed Bubble-Roger Kimball: ‘This Week’s Funniest Headline…’

  
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  Full post here . Kimball responds to a letter penned by concerned professors at San Jose State: ‘Online courses are dangerous because they would “compromise the quality of education” and “stifle diverse viewpoints.”  Ha, ha, ha. As if “the quality of education” and genuine diversity were ...
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• Colleges/Universities Leave Lower Income Students Behind

  
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  The business of higher education is changing rapidly. With family incomes stagnant, job prospects for graduates challenging, and pressure on the bottom line — for families and schools alike — increasing like never before, those within the executive offices of our nation’s ivory towers are scrambling. What is ...
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• Yale Probes Arson Threat

  
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  Yale University is investigating a message found scrawled on a bathroom wall, promising arson at the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life.
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• Higher Ed Data Central: Net Tuition Maps

  
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  A few commenters asked for institutional aid/net tuition maps. Since net tuition (tuition minus grant aid) includes institutional aid/grants, I will focus on net tuition in this post. The one caveat is that per-student aid data is only available for “full-time, first-time degree/certificate-seeking ...
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• Evaluation Season

  
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  Heres The Onion s take on student evaluations: Professor Deeply Hurt by Students Evaluation . The Deans comment comes right at the end, but its brilliant: “Students and the enormous revenue they bring in to our institution are a more valued commodity to us than faculty,” Dean James Hewitt said. “Although ...
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• Moral Turpitude

  
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  Could this phrase include acts that are meant to hurt a colleagues professional standing? Could someone be fired for this offence? The University of New Hampshire said yes, and yes. Marco Dorfsman, a Spanish professor at UNH, tampered with student evaluations of an unnamed colleague. He was reported to have come ...
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• How scholars in Timbuktu protected medieval texts under an Islamist occupation

  
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  Sidi Lamine gently opens the creaky wooden door that leads to his collection of manuscripts. Housed in a dark, windowless room, hundreds of medieval texts line handsome wooden bookshelves that reach to the ceiling. A musty smell lingers over everything. On an ornate table under dusty glass rest the rarest books in his ...
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• Colleges Cut Prices by Providing More Financial Aid - WSJ.com

  
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  Colleges Cut Prices by Providing More Financial Aid - WSJ.com: Private U.S. colleges, worried they...
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• How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? A lesson in argument

  
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  From Dorothy L. Sayers. Again, I am struck by how contemporaneous and relevant her decades old criticism is. (Does that make me a romantic or her a prescient thinker?) A glib speaker in the Brains Trust once entertained his audience (and reduced the late Charles Williams to helpless rage) by asserting that in the ...
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• Cobber Superlatives: Reflections On My First Year Teaching

  
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  Faculty line up to congratulate the 2013 graduates of Concordia College. The Concordia College class of 2013 graduated this afternoon. It was an honor to attend the ceremony (even squished in the faculty seating trying not sneeze and share my spring cold with my colleagues). With the 2012-13 school year now in the ...
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• Links

  
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  Kazim Ali in the Oberlin Alumni Magazine (Spring 2012): Poetry is Dangerous : Because of my recycling, the bomb squad came, the state police came. Because of my recycling, buildings were evacuated, classes were canceled, campus was closed. No. Not because of my recycling. Because of my dark body. No. Not because ...
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• How Texas Could Kill College-For-All

  
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  Guest Article Written By: Adam Stacy 20th Century Americans forgot that correlation does not mean causation.  We saw the raw data and made the wrong assumptions. The data says: a lifetime earnings for college graduates easily double earnings for those with no higher education. Assumption one: to increase nationwide ...
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• Common Core article in Inside Higher Ed

  
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  Just wanted to mention that I am quoted in a rather lengthy, somewhat comprehensive article on "The Common Core on campus" by Libby A. Nelson .  The article was published today on the website Inside Higher Ed, which is connected to The Chronicle of Higher Education .   Nelson contacted me because I have ...
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• Graduation debt, student loans dictate life choices

  
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  What compels Sammy and her counterparts to stay are programs that allow students and professionals to mingle as equals, a cultural nightlife that is not only rich in its offerings but warm in its outreach, and a rich innovation community that supports creativity and the entrepreneurial spirit.        
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