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Friday Five: #summersongs 2013 (off topic)

May 24, 2013

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It’s Memorial Day weekend, the official kickoff of summer in the U.S. And while a lot of us will return back to work after the long weekend, we can at least reminisce about long, lazy days at the beach or lake, cross-country road trips, sandlot baseball, and that organ grinder jingle that told you the […]

Disrupt your summer; attend the 2013 CASE Summit

May 21, 2013

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If there’s one topic that causes great consternation and hand-wringing in the halls of academia these days, it’s the topic of disruption in higher education. We read blog posts about it. We watch videos about it. We even read entire books about it. This summer, you’ll have a chance to learn from some of the leading disrupters […]

‘The enemy of clarity’

May 13, 2013

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I got to tune in to the Chick-Fil-A Leadercast last Friday, thanks to the university I work for, which was a sponsor of the event. This annual event is broadcast at sites across the nation. This was the first time I was able to attend. We heard from a lot of great speakers about leadership, […]

Friday Five: Quotables of the week (on change, shoes, reach, online education and college essays)

May 10, 2013

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Happy Friday, #highered folks! You made it through another week. But no rest for a lot of you, as you’ll be working through the weekend on various aspects of commencement. (That’s me next weekend.) And with commencement, of course, comes a phalanx of speakers, each of whom toils over finding just the right words to […]

On the other hand, numbers do matter

May 9, 2013

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Readers of my previous post (The elements of a great #highered Twitter account) could come away thinking I don’t care about numbers. That would be wrong. I do care about numbers. Numbers matter in social media. Dan Zarrella makes this clear in his popular Science of Social Media presentation. In the simplest of terms, if […]

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