[View the story "For Fellow Faculty: This Week's News (9/30/12)" on Storify ]For Fellow Faculty: This Week's News (9/30/12) News for Higher Education Faculty --- This Week: Number of Faculty Not Rising, The College Ranking Racket & Other News [VID] Storified by WilliamHartPhD · Sun, Sep 30 2012 16:37:17
Here are some news articles that I've read, in whole or in part. I thought you, my fellow faculty members, might also have an interest in the articles. If you'd want to talk or offer comments about any of these, just post a comment below.
Top Stories Number of college faculty and staff members flattens | Inside Higher Edundefined
The College Rankings RacketThe U.S. News & World Report's annual college rankings came out earlier this month and - knock me over with a feather! - Harvard and Prin...
Students Say They Want Closer Connections with CollegeStudents want to be more connected to their colleges - from the moment they set foot on campus through the time they graduate. This was a...
EdX offers free higher education onlinecnn
Teaching Grad Students Applications to U.S. Graduate Schools Increase, but New Enrollments Drop - Graduate Students - The Chronicle of Higher EducationApplications to graduate-school programs in the United States increased by 4 percent from the fall of 2010 to the fall of 2011, but first...
Sucstress in Grad School | Inside Higher Edundefined
Teaching Tech Mobile Curriculum on an iPhone with iTunes U | Inside Higher Edundefined
Cloud Computing Enhances Higher Education at Indiana Universitycitrixtv
Elsevier partners with edX to provide free versions of textbooks to MOOC students | Inside Higher Edundefined
Hack Education Weekly News: Learnable Programming, SAT Scores, and Open TextbooksUpdates and Upgrades Bret Victor has responded to Khan Academy's new computer science curriculum with an amazing essay, Learnable Program...
For the Teacher How Do You Grade Yourself? [Success]If you had to grade yourself on success, what would you focus on? As entrepreneur Derek Sivers illustrates, we all judge ourselves by dif...
Best Ways to Organize Small Spaces | HackCollegeYesterday, September 27th, marks the 29th anniversary of the birth of one of the most altruistic movements in modern computer science: th...
How to Get Unstuck: The Big Paper Experiment [Productivity]If you ever find yourself stuck and unclear of where you are and where you're going, try the following exercise to get moving again. All ...
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Chronicle articles may not have the full story. Usually they offer just the lead of the story and charge for full access. However, your university probably has full access. If you are interested in a
Chronicle story from above, check with your universities library site. For example, my university (NSU), offers
access to the full articles .
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