We all know the score: despite the continued growth in post-graduate degrees, full-time, permanent positions in academia are increasingly rare. In 2009, part-time faculty members represented more than half of all faculty in teaching positions and only 30 percent of all faculty held tenure track positions. Certainly, to search for work in today’s over-saturated academic market, in the depths of a recession, is no easy task; as a newly minted PhD, this is a fact I know all to well.
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Hack (Higher) Education
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Confessions of a Community College Dean
In which a veteran of cultural studies seminars in the 1990s moves into academic administration and finds himself a married suburban father of two. Foucault, plus lawn care.
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Digital Tweed
Digital Tweed© is the work of Kenneth C. Green, founding director of The Campus Computing Project. If successful, these posts will inform and entertain, and at times also annoy. A little dissonance can be a good thing.
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Getting to Green
An administrator pushes, on a shoestring budget, to move his university and the world toward a more sustainable equilibrium.
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GlobalHigherEd
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Law, Policy -- and IT?
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Library Babel Fish
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Mama PhD
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Technology and Learning
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The Education of Oronte Churm
Oronte Churm recently jumped into the refreshing tenure stream and is floating slowly toward Louisiana. His friend and former editor John Warner, author of The Funny Man, is posting here until Churm’s return in the fall.
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Library Babel Fish
July 26, 2012 - 9:15pm
As I put together the annual report for the library, I spent a lot of time looking at numbers. One of them was the average cost of articles we provided to faculty published in journals we can’t afford and which we couldn’t get free through interlibrary loan. The average cost we paid per article? $41.89. This is making me think about the costs of our stern new religion of austerity.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
July 26, 2012 - 9:05pm
An occasional correspondent writes: "How much do instructors have to adapt their courses and their styles to the needs of the students?"
Technology and Learning
July 26, 2012 - 9:00pm
Probably the closest that I'll get to being invited to give a TED Talk is Chris Anderson tweeting about something that I wrote. Last week, in response to my critique that $14.99 is too expensive for a 6 book / 3 month TED book subscription (through TED's new iOS app), Chris tweeted from @TEDchris,
"Is $15 too much for 22 short, multimedia enabled books?! http://bit.ly/NNXitg http://bit.ly/Njqo1c"
Mama PhD
July 26, 2012 - 7:59pm
There is a concept in statistics called “expected value.” This is the expected outcome of any situation that involves probability, and is found by multiplying the possible outcomes by the probability that each will occur and then adding these products together. Expected value calculations are why it is generally thought that one should not play the lottery, as some claim that the lottery is a “tax on people who did not do well in math
The Education of Oronte Churm
July 26, 2012 - 5:12pm
I almost always choose the chocolate cake.
Getting to Green
July 26, 2012 - 2:58pm
Well, maybe not the pets themselves. Maybe more their owners. Especially when it comes to dogs, because dogs can't help the fact that for millenia they've been bred for subservience. Cats, on the other hand, might have to take the rap themselves.
StratEDgy
July 25, 2012 - 9:03pm
These past few months have been a bit of a reading frenzy.
College Ready Writing
July 24, 2012 - 8:50pm
I'm still recovering from my trip, so here are some shorter thoughts on current happenings.
Hack (Higher) Education
July 23, 2012 - 11:54pm
I am getting so tired of all this MOOC frenzy, and so I apologize in advance for penning yet another article on the topic. But I'm starting two new Coursera classes tonight and I'm already grumpy about the whole process.
The World View
July 23, 2012 - 10:28pm
The OECD reports that four out of ten university graduates in the world will come from China or India by 2020 — and a major part of global enrolment is taking place in these two countries. This trend is an inevitable and entirely natural result of the global expansion of higher education — massification, population trends, and the growth of the economies of both countries.
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