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		<title>Privatization Is a National Security Issue&#8211;And Not Just because of Edward Snowden</title>
		<link>http://academeblog.org/2013/06/18/privatization-is-a-national-security-issue-and-not-just-because-of-edward-snowden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martinkich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Central to the current controversy about Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks is the fact that Snowden was a “private contractor.” In fact, over this past weekend, various commentators have asserted that 30% to 70% of the national security personnel are now “private contractors”: that is, employees of corporations—and typically multinational corporations—and not of the federal government. &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://academeblog.org/2013/06/18/privatization-is-a-national-security-issue-and-not-just-because-of-edward-snowden/">Keep&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=academeblog.org&#038;blog=25884708&#038;post=3380&#038;subd=academeblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How-To Books That Make One Wonder Why</title>
		<link>http://academeblog.org/2013/06/18/how-to-books-that-make-one-wonder-why/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martinkich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is another item that I am re-posting from Futility Closet (www.futilitycloset.com). It is re-posted with the permission of Greg Ross, who maintains the site. You can have daily updates delivered to your e-mail each morning. ************************* Titles of actual publications collected by librarian Eric v.d. Luft: How to Abandon Ship (1942) How to &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://academeblog.org/2013/06/18/how-to-books-that-make-one-wonder-why/">Keep&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=academeblog.org&#038;blog=25884708&#038;post=3377&#038;subd=academeblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reaching For the Seminal Moment</title>
		<link>http://academeblog.org/2013/06/17/reaching-for-the-seminal-moment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian C. Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For most of my professional career, I have believed that institutions, more or less, happen upon a seminal moment in their evolution.  Indeed, when approached about consulting or management opportunities I typically first begin by looking at some combination of ethos, culture, board and management leadership, and cold, hard numbers to determine the possible.  It &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://academeblog.org/2013/06/17/reaching-for-the-seminal-moment/">Keep&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=academeblog.org&#038;blog=25884708&#038;post=3368&#038;subd=academeblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AAUP Votes to Censure National Louis University and Southern University, Baton Rouge</title>
		<link>http://academeblog.org/2013/06/15/aaup-votes-to-censure-national-louis-university-and-southern-university-baton-rouge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John K. Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On June 15, the American Association of University Professors at its annual meeting voted unanimously to place National Louis University of Illinois and Southern University, Baton Rouge on its list of censured institutions for violations of academic freedom and tenure. AAUP First Vice-President Henry Reichman declared, “What happened at National Louis was ominous.” The AAUP &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://academeblog.org/2013/06/15/aaup-votes-to-censure-national-louis-university-and-southern-university-baton-rouge/">Keep&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=academeblog.org&#038;blog=25884708&#038;post=3360&#038;subd=academeblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good Reads—Miscellaneous Topics: No. 1</title>
		<link>http://academeblog.org/2013/06/13/good-reads-miscellaneous-topics-no-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 03:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martinkich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last four to five weeks, several fascinating examples of photo-journalism and photo-essays, graphic representations of scholarly research, and richly illustrated book reviews have been published online. The Atlantic publishes daily photo-essays in its In Focus feature. A recent addition to the series is “Welcome Back to Earth, Commander Hadfield,” which includes photos taken &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://academeblog.org/2013/06/13/good-reads-miscellaneous-topics-no-1/">Keep&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=academeblog.org&#038;blog=25884708&#038;post=3355&#038;subd=academeblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Putting Strategy, Ambition and Guts Back into College Fundraising</title>
		<link>http://academeblog.org/2013/06/10/putting-strategy-ambition-and-guts-back-into-college-fundraising/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian C. Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the tired adages about American higher education is that the role of the university president is &#8220;to live in a big house and travel the world with a tin cup in one&#8217;s hand.&#8221; The commentary on the implosion of Gordon Gee at Ohio State University this week picks up on this theme to &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://academeblog.org/2013/06/10/putting-strategy-ambition-and-guts-back-into-college-fundraising/">Keep&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=academeblog.org&#038;blog=25884708&#038;post=3350&#038;subd=academeblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another Perspective on the Three-Year Baccalaureate Degree</title>
		<link>http://academeblog.org/2013/06/08/another-perspective-on-the-three-year-baccalaureate-degree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 14:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martinkich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, I posted a review of Saving Higher Edu­cation: The Integrated, Competency-Based Three-Year Bachelor’s Degree Pro­gram. The book describes an alternative to the two most common “three-year” baccalaureate programs: the Accelerated model and the Prior Learning model. In the Accelerated Model, students essentially take overloads and full summer loads in order to complete &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://academeblog.org/2013/06/08/another-perspective-on-the-three-year-baccalaureate-degree/">Keep&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=academeblog.org&#038;blog=25884708&#038;post=3345&#038;subd=academeblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MOOCs: Are They about Access or Money?</title>
		<link>http://academeblog.org/2013/06/08/moocs-are-they-about-access-or-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 14:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martinkich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a re-post from the On the Issues blog maintained by the Campaign for the Future of Higher Education [http://futureofhighered.org/]. ************************* If you read the news, listen to legislators, or watch TED talks, you might think MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are just about providing free access to high-quality courses for anyone who wants &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://academeblog.org/2013/06/08/moocs-are-they-about-access-or-money/">Keep&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=academeblog.org&#038;blog=25884708&#038;post=3342&#038;subd=academeblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who Says College Can’t Be Free?</title>
		<link>http://academeblog.org/2013/06/07/who-says-college-cant-be-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 18:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martinkich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a re-post from the On the Issues blog maintained by the Campaign for the Future of Higher Education [http://futureofhighered.org/]. ************************* After a brief experiment in charging tuition, Germany—the strongest economy in Europe and one of the strongest in the world&#8211;is abolishing fees at its colleges and universities. Why? As quoted in a recent &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://academeblog.org/2013/06/07/who-says-college-cant-be-free/">Keep&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=academeblog.org&#038;blog=25884708&#038;post=3339&#038;subd=academeblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Herein Lies Yet Another Route to Madness</title>
		<link>http://academeblog.org/2013/06/07/herein-lies-yet-another-route-to-madness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martinkich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is another item from Futility Closet (http://www.futilitycloset.com/), re-posted with the permission of Greg Ross. ************************* It was British wordplay expert Leigh Mercer who coined the classic palindrome “A man, a plan, a canal—Panama” in Note &#38; Queries on Nov. 13, 1948. He later said that he’d had the middle portion, PLAN A CANAL P, for a &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://academeblog.org/2013/06/07/herein-lies-yet-another-route-to-madness/">Keep&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=academeblog.org&#038;blog=25884708&#038;post=3336&#038;subd=academeblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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