#Students

Reflecting on the history and current moment of NCAA sports, we should think about what we really are talking about when we say the “collegiate model.” In practice. Not ideologically
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I sent a note to my first-year students as they are turning the corner into reading three of the Gospels this term. Got myself excited about it. Here's what I
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theoryair signs are often referred to as “aloof” / “ditsy” because they aren’t always present in the moment. this is due to all the extra energy they’re picking up, but
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This somehow reminds me of the story of the 27 year old African American civil rights activist, James Meredith and his sojourn as a student of the University of Ibadan
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I want to re-up this one more time bc I keep seeing tweets that assume that university admin bringing students to campus are just ghouls who are making poor decisions.
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Close reading is "a thing." One master of this is @KyleneBeers. But what about "close viewing"? I love the weekly @nytimes "What's Going On In This Picture?" activity where students
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A thread in which I set out concerns with the UK government’s plan for addressing free speech in universities.Given existing reliable surveys on free speech, the plan is misplaced, and,
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Was the attack on the US Capitol an attempted coup? Rather than debate that question here (or in another forum), I'm making it an assignment. Specifically, I'm asking my Quantitative
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On Tuesday, six days after neo-Nazis stormed the US Capitol, Jewish establishment leaders sent this letter to Biden expressing concern about rising antisemitism.Their focus? "Antisemitism on college campuses" where "anti-Isra
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Blue Ocean Strategy is based on a book of the same name written by Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne in 2005.It explores a concept which we know but rarely use.
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Under the current district return model it sure seems like they have no real intention of getting most TK-1 students back this school year. (It also doesn't seem to take
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Brief comment on everyone ready to blame college students for outbreaks. They've been holed up for 5 months while adults whine about haircuts and eating out. So when they're told
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Time for a rant: grant reviewers, why are we penalizing applicants for not publishing peer-reviewed papers as undergraduates?! Publishing as an undergrad, when most work is part-time, means that whether
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Ok y’all I have something to say. When I gave birth in a teaching hospital, about 30 different people gave me a cervix exam. Years later, I realized that it
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1I just came across this little gem of a Brexiter diatribe from Tim Hedges which epitomizes just how ill-informed and plain stupid, even the most educated of Leavers are. Apologies
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1/ Thought I'd do a thread about reasons to be cheerful about the Cultural Revolution. All of these are variations on the same theme: the Red Guards have seized cultural
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