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Sherman Dorn
Why are these data different from all other data?
I am the youngest of five children, so I get to ask questions today. ((For those reading this entry months or years later and don’t have the skills to translate between calendars on the fly, it’s the first day of Passover, and traditionally asking the four questions is the privilege/obligation of the young.)) Sara Goldrick-Rab […]
What my department colleagues and students are doing on #dayofhighered
Lee Bessette has called for a public description of an ordinary day in higher education today, a Day of Higher Ed. I firmly believe in this type of descriptive transparency, so here goes, in a way: I will skip my activities as a chair today, other than noting that my week is looking like the […]
The American Historical Association Tuning project
In February, the American Historical Association announced its discipline-wide “Tuning” project with a grant from the Lumina Foundation. Based on previous work in the European Balogna process and a U.S. pilot project in history in Utah, the AHA will be formulating a generic list of what students leaving various history programs should know and be […]
Assignment realities at community colleges and public research universities
David C. Levy’s screed at the Washington Post this weekend is typical of crankiness among some of those who don’t know much about higher education, believing that face time with students is the bulk of time that faculty teach in higher ed. More than that, he went after community college faculty as the place to push […]
So long, and thanks for all the Stanley Fish
By Sherman Dorn on April 1, 2012
I’ve got insomnia thanks to some minor food poisoning, but it’s not so severe that it requires I be admitted to a hospital, so I’ll take my dyspepsia out on my readers. All 2.17… of you who are awake at this hour, on the weekend, and having nothing better to do than read an academic […]
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