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AlessandroMartins
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Notas sobre livros e outras coisas legais de 19.8.2008 a 20.8.2008
Dicas para ir à Bienal do Livro - Aproveite da melhor forma possível o maior evento da indústria e comércio de livros do...
 
<em>laurenpressley</em>
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Herr Professor Daddy? I didn’t think so.
Anyone who thinks male and female professors are treated equally by students is clueless. Just recently I came across a couple of examples that are very illustrative of this point. A friend of mine told me that her undergraduate advisees gave her a photo...
 
akarra
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Build your own list: What must people majoring in the humanities and liberal arts know?
I was just thinking the other day that I nearly forgot everything learned at Rutgers. While I was exposed to lots of awesome...
 
Black on Campus
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The Quotable Black Scholar: Derrick Bell
Derrick Bell (b. 1930)After a decade at Harvard, I left to accept the deanship at the University of Oregon Law School. Five...
 
absolutwillie
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Funny metaphors used in high school essays
I just received the following e-mail from a friend in Oman - and I very nearly wet myself!THIS is why I want to teach Creative...
2 days ago absolutwillie | Topics: academia, fun
 
A C
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Upcoming Scholars in Residence at Getty Research Institute
It’s almost time for fall. Can’t you feel it in the air?  Have you detected the change in the light, the cooler...
 
cb
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Oxford, Education and Inclusion
Oxford University and social inclusion aren’t necessarily two phrases that would naturally find themselves in the same...
 
r.chappell29
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Literature Maps
Academics write 'literature reviews', and talk about 'logical space'. I wonder if there's any way to literally map out the...
3 days ago Philosophy, et cetera | Topics: academia
 
<em>jyothikarthik</em>
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Exams Revisited
The glories of conquering my last semester exams were short-lived. Because, they’ve started to haunt me once...
 
prodigeek
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Academia is Whoniversal [Academia]
This November, head out to Cardiff University for a 3-day academic conference about all things Doctor Who called "Whoniversal' Appeal: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference on Doctor Who and All of its Spin-Offs." Organizer Melissa Beattie...
 
mrawesome
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Freakonomics: “The Plight of Mixed Race Children”
by Latoya PetersonI love Sudhir Venkatesh but I am starting to fucking hate the Freakonomics blog. Especially when they...
 
Downes
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Google Bring Scholar Richness Into Normal Search Results
This is good news, but with a caveat. Google frequently lists academic papers in its search results, but from a service like...
 
Mark Lancaster
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Prof tweets about course, ends up moving whole class online
Submitted by MakiMaki on 08/13/2008I once had a discussion with a professor concerning the online classroom.  While he...
7 days ago popFAIL | Topics: Technology, academia, higher..., online
 
csivori61
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Charlie Munger: “all reality has to respect all other reality”
From an interview with Berkshire Hathaway’s Charlie Munger, the most clear and concise argument for the liberal arts...
 
Black on Campus
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HBCUs 101: Majority Black Does Not Always Mean Historically Black
The term Historically Black Colleges and Universities refers to a group of 105 U.S. colleges and universities founded with the...
 
wickedanomie
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Academic Job Search Pointers
After many, many years of apprenticeship, the journeyman prepares to strike out on her own, to establish her own fortress (or...
 
Simon
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Recognition and Work recordings
Here are the recordings from the Recognition and Work conference held at MQ last year. Some notable speakers include Axel...
 
Jinja
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BarCamp Phnom Penh: September 20
I’d be remiss, not to take  note of this:BarCamp Phnom Penh, a day-long gathering for computer enthusiasts, is...
 
Jinja
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BarCamp Phnom Penh: September 20
I’d be remiss, not to take  note of this:BarCamp Phnom Penh, a day-long gathering for computer enthusiasts, is...
 
Black on Campus
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The Quotable Black Scholar: Kobena Mercer
Kobena Mercer (b. 1960)Universities reflect the history of race relations in the two countries; because the US was a...
 
doncampbell
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The 'Secret (and Overt) Books' of Game Design [Books]
Malcolm Ryan is putting together a most interesting list of game design-related books — except these are the ones that are flying under the radar as it were. Ryan describes these 'secret books' as "books that are not explicitly written...
 
MadProfessah
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Oprah's Endorsement Worth A Million Votes For Obama
Kevin Drum has an interesting post about an article which attempts to quantify the impact of Oprah Winfrey's early endorsement...
 
Black on Campus
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The Quotable Black Scholar: Lois Benjamin
The cover of The Black Elite, 2nd edition.Being a black American, at some level, poses the dilemma of prioritizing being an...
 
omnibrain
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Why non-native English speaks should have english speaking proofreaders
Oh you crazy non-English speaking people... please please please take the extra effort and get someone like me with a dirty...
12 days ago Omni Brain | Topics: Academia
 
kat
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Pompous words of the day
Academia is sometimes a little, well, self-indulgent. These are some words I came across today. I often hear professors and...
15 days ago A Process Planner | Topics: ucla, academia, lists
 
DrWright
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: a memorial to the gulag’s millions of voiceless victims.
The Dissident By Stephen BrownFrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, August 05, 2008 Not the least of...
 
Valkiria
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Note to Father: This Is Hard - Chronicle.com
today's students are akin to customers who expect a fair amount of service from the professor who works for them.
 
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Eric
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All the privileged must have prizes
"Their parents and teachers have bathed them in ambitious glances, so that the source of their very identity has come to lie in their potential. Perhaps this is why, though they demand to be graded, they resent the teacher's claim to judgment...
 
Valkiria
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Summer Prep for New Teachers - Chronicle.com
At the end of the course, what specific skills and knowledge do I want my students to have learned? And how will those skills and that knowledge benefit or improve their lives? Your responses can help remind you why your discipline matters in the world.
 
SmartLikeMe
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Gender Inequity In Science: Why Legal Remedies Are Grossly Inadequate
from Feministe: great article about how not all sexism can be fought with "rights" and "law."
 
Baltimoron
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Stiglitz Skewers the Washington Consensus
Neo-liberalism is dead! The world has not been kind to neo-liberalism, that grab-bag of ideas based on the fundamentalist...
 
cgbrooke
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Karen-ival
What, content?!Yes, it's true. For a variety of reasons, my blog has been deep in summer slumber. But chatting with Derek...
34 days ago Collin vs Blog | Topics: academia, carnivalous, carnival, CCC
 
unknownprofessor
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What Effect Does Professor Quality Have on Student Performance?
Whether or not (and how) professor quality affects student performance is an ongoing question in academia. Unfortunately,...
35 days ago Financial Rounds | Topics: Teaching, Academia