Second Life Duty? Seriously?
Nov 12, 2009 by Ashley Thorne |
Second Life, a virtual "world" resembling a video game, enables people to interact with one another via avatars - digitized, animated versions of themselves. The creepy, sexual, Second Life universe is inhabited… Continue Reading | Leave a Comment >
Gothic Arch and Ghost Town
Jun 21, 2009 by Peter Wood |
Princeton's gracious campus expresses confidence in the life of the mind; UMass Amherst's Chancellor cries uncle; a New Jersey ghost town points its bony finger.
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Adopt a Mascot
Jun 11, 2009 by Ashley Thorne, Peter Wood |
There are many orphaned college mascots who need a good home. Will you give them the love they need?
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For Shame!
Jun 08, 2009 by Peter Wood |
On the transformation of the idea of "shame" - and how the right kind of shame is seen as honorable. Especially on the college campus.
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Exchange Counter
Jun 04, 2009 by Ashley Thorne, Peter Wood |
Meet Free Exchange on Campus, a coalition uninterested in free exchange on campus.
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40 Awkward Questions for College Tours
Jun 03, 2009 by Ashley Thorne, Glenn Ricketts, Peter Wood |
You choose: either play the role of an
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Sustainability Education’s New Morality
May 15, 2009 by Ashley Thorne |
What will happen when the sustainability revolutionaries take over the college curriculum?
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A College Board Does Its Job
Apr 21, 2009 by Steve Balch |
DuPage adopts a policy statement based on the Academic Bill of Rights.
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Slouching Toward the Therapeutic University: Part 3
Apr 01, 2009 by Tom Wood |
A university is about self-discovery, but in a sense quite different from person-centered therapy. It involves stretching the self and the mind with the thoughts of the great minds of the past and present.
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Thursday Threnodies
Mar 19, 2009 by Peter Wood |
Hangry, Scalia at Amherst, medical school match day, Lucy, and critical play
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Facebook and the Future of the University
Sep 30, 2008 by Tom Wood |
Will social networking sites like Facebook remove the extracurricular responsibility of the university?
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The Extracurricular Sector of the University: Unappreciated and Soon To Be Unneeded
Sep 23, 2008 by Tom Wood |
With the rise of online education, will student affairs and residence life programs become obsolete?
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Is College Driving Students to Drink?
Sep 11, 2008 by Tom Wood |
Why is binge drinking such a problem on college campuses? What factors lead certain students to consume more than others?
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Gone, Daddy, Gone
Jul 17, 2008 by Adrianna Groth |
College Students get little encouragement to esteem the traditional family from the redefined-family curriculum and "hooking-up" dorm culture.
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6. Who Educates the Whole Person These Days? Anyone? (Res Life and the Decline of…
Feb 20, 2008 by Tom Wood |
Our recent posting, "Residence Life and the Decline of Campus Community, Part 1," aimed to place Res Life programs within the wider context of the contemporary American… Continue Reading | Leave a Comment >
