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The BlogIt would be reasonable to assume that business and education have a symbiotic relationship: Companies need a well-trained, well-educated workforce if they’re going to be successful. Schools need the tax base, donations, internships, and other benefits that businesses can provide. Obviously, postsecondary institutions want their students to become gainfully employed after graduation. What could tear [...]
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As Americans become increasingly focused on going green and surviving a difficult economic period, we recycle and try not to waste precious resources like water. To operate one of those old 5-gallon flushing toilets of days gone by would be seen as a ludicrous extravagance and unnecessary expense by most. Yet, we give no thought [...]
It’s Friday the 13th as I write this, and as if by divine intervention, I also just watched a rerun of the CW show, Supernatural in which pop fiction author and prophet of God, Chuck, is introduced. It seems everything he writes comes true for the main characters, Sam and Dean Winchester and even for [...]
The term ‘accountability’ is tossed around like an office project that everyone agrees needs doing, yet no one wants to be the one to get it done. Part of the problem with this buzzword, especially when it’s applied to education, is that its use fluctuates from the abstract (e.g., “Hey, let’s hold schools accountable!”) to [...]
As this recent discussion board on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s website attests, defining exactly what faculty emeriti are, how they attain such a status, and what their roles within the university may be varies by institution. By definition, ‘emeritus’ refers to someone who has completed their duties well and received an honorable discharge; therefore, [...]
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One of the chief concerns educators have is basic literacy. The ability to read and comprehend text and then critically think and share ideas is fundamental to academic success specifically and to life success generally. Perhaps that’s why educators take such initiative even during their retirement years to foster literacy within their local communities and [...]
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