One of the most reliable reflex actions in higher education is the urge to re-make general education every decade or so. The effort described in
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Smart Institutional Practices Around Interdisciplinary Hiring
Interesting misleading headline in this article from COHE. Gist of the story is folks at North Carolina State University recognized that cross-disciplinary hiring challenges organizational
Decreasing Teaching (Course) Load at Swarthmore College
Note: This makes for an interesting pairing with the previous post. It does not take too flexible a mind to think of expanding admin ranks
Recently in the New York Times
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The Socially Competent Node
Consider the following deviant characters: loose cannons, blabbermouths, gossipers, and yentas, stool pigeons and canaries, tattlers and squealers, garblers, the nosy, the deaf to hints,
Religion and Learning to be a Node
A short excerpt from zeroth draft of chapter “Learning to be a node” The chapter is about how social networks depend on competent nodes and
