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• Why Is Science Behind A Paywall?

  
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  A large portion of scientific research is publicly funded. So why do only the richest consumers have access to it?
  6 days ago

• 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 .
  2 weeks ago

• 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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• 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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• 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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• 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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• 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 ...
  2 weeks ago

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