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The State of Higher Ed / Re: Colleges in Dire Financial...
Last post by Wahoo Redux - Today at 07:25:56 AM
IHE: Lakeland Community College on 'the Precipice of Fiscal Watch'

QuoteLakeland Community College in Ohio is struggling with steep enrollment losses, underutilized campus spaces and on "the precipice of fiscal watch," according to a recent performance audit by the state auditor. Fiscal watch status would require the college to submit a financial recovery plan.

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The audit notes that enrollment, which is currently at about 5,000 students, fell nearly 50 percent since its peak in 2012 but the college has not reduced staffing levels accordingly, held courses with few students enrolled and opened new facilities, including a 16,000-foot expansion on the main campus, leading to debt.
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General Discussion / Re: The travertine fossil
Last post by apl68 - Today at 07:10:33 AM
I've heard of the old poem "The Face on the Barroom Floor."  This kind of takes things to a new level.
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General Discussion / Re: NYT Spelling Bee
Last post by ciao_yall - Today at 06:19:26 AM
Morning!

QBwHHH (help from hubby) - was down to my last word. He asked how to play, so I showed him I needed a CR-8 and he said "cringing?" Boom. LB nudge for quip-phytoplankton. What?

Happy solving!
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The State of Higher Ed / Re: Protests and police on cam...
Last post by Langue_doc - Today at 06:19:18 AM
Quote from: spork on April 22, 2024, 10:42:04 AMDidn't hear anything about police arresting the Ivy League students who were protesting against the Tigray war in 2020-2022, which killed a half million. Or the students who have been protesting against the civil war in Sudan, which has killed ~ 20,000 and displaced ~ 8 million. Or the students who have been protesting Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which has killed about a half million so far, and has involved the rape and torture of civilians, as well as the deportation of Ukrainian children to Russian hinterlands.

Why are the students protesting against the war in Gaza so special?

The donors, the donors. Weren't they responsible for the resignations of the presidents at Harvard and UPenn?

Minouche is probably on the way out as well.
QuoteColumbia's President May Face a Censure Resolution
The university senate is expected to vote as early as Wednesday on a resolution censuring Nemat Shafik, a reaction to her testimony before Congress and the arrests of student protesters.

In the meantime, the protests continue here in the city and also at other universities.
QuoteUniversities Struggle as Pro-Palestinian Demonstrations Grow
Dozens were arrested Monday at N.Y.U. and Yale, but officials there and at campuses across the country are running out of options to corral protests that are expected to last the rest of the school year.
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The State of Higher Ed / Re: Protests and police on cam...
Last post by marshwiggle - Today at 06:15:26 AM
Quote from: kaysixteen on April 22, 2024, 06:16:54 PMAll this is true.   Doesn't mean that Israel isn't a settler colonialist state, though.

There is a very big can of worms which this opens. It's well established archeologically that in parts of North America, (for instance), at  times different indigenous groups have occupied a particular region. Often these occupations were centuries apart, and it's not clear what happened to the earlier groups. When there are questions about who "owns" artifacts from those earlier groups, the most recent indigenous group to have inhabited that area usually claims responsibility for them. But how is that claim any more legitimate that the claim of whoever currently occupies the area, indigenous or not?

Also, as some commentators have pointed out, in the UK, the *"indigenous" occupants are the white people, and immigrants are the "settlers".




(* And if you really want to get picky, the Welsh would have the most "indigenous" ancestry, since "welsic" was what the Anglo-Saxons called the indigenous Britons, which, ironically, means "foreigner". They were driven west as the invaders came from the continent.)
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General Discussion / Re: NYT Spelling Bee
Last post by Langue_doc - Today at 06:12:44 AM
Good morning!

Pangram and above genius. Missed nock, nocking, words that I think are quite obscure, even more so than one of the words that wasn't accepted today.

Happy solving!
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General Academic Discussion / Re: Edited Collections
Last post by Hibush - Today at 05:28:14 AM
This edited collection sounds like a definitive analysis of the subject, with a nice diversity of interpretations. That scholarship should have a lot of value, and deserves to be known.

What kind of publicity can you do so that it becomes well known in the field? Will we hear you interviewed by Terri Gross? More modestly, are there podcasters who cover the general field? They are always looking for novel content.
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General Discussion / Re: The travertine fossil
Last post by nebo113 - Today at 04:45:24 AM
Saw the article this morning.  I understand how it got there, but still seems a tad goulish to pee and poop with a human bone at my feet.
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General Discussion / Re: Bidet add on to regular to...
Last post by nebo113 - Today at 04:40:59 AM
Quote from: Sun_Worshiper on April 22, 2024, 03:52:57 PMI have never used a bidet. I hear great things, but seems so messy.

I first encountered stand alone bidets in Europe, as a 19 year old (I am now retired).  We used them to wash our blue jeans.

Fast forward to today:  Several family members have them.  They are now a single unit, integrated with the toilet.  Once I got the hang of using it, I found them simple and hygienic.  And no toilet paper needed.

Wish I had installed them when I built my house.  Now I'm trying to retrofit.

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General Academic Discussion / Re: Edited Collections
Last post by Ancient Fellow - Today at 04:39:45 AM
Quote from: Ancient Fellow on June 07, 2019, 01:51:21 PMWhat in everybody's opinion is the value of chapters in edited collections? If you were asked to contribute, would you contribute or not, and why? If its depends, what would it depend on? Since so many things are field specific, can those answering specify what area they work in?

Just an update –

Edited collection now under contract with Appropriate Moderately-sized University Press. The volume is a critical edition of a text with supplementary chapters by each of us in our relevant specialty area. Elapsed time from submission to the series editors to contract? Four years. Been a long haul, but it's a labor of love for myself and my contributors and will hopefully be out this year. Will likely do one more such volume for another neglected but significant text in the next couple years.

In the interest of cautioning early career researchers, let me just add two other categories –

Chapter in an edited collection based on a conference, supposed to be published by Huge Academic Trade Press. The lovely conference was eight years ago. No updates from publisher. Only sticking with it for the sake of the editors, but quietly wishing I had just submitted it to a journal eight years ago. I've no idea how antiquated it will seem when it finally sees the light of day, so I suppose it's a good thing I'm an ancient historian. Fortunately, I'm not myself terribly ancient, and so my chapter is unlikely to be posthumous.

Two chapters in a proceedings volume series, published by a Moderately-sized Academic Trade Press. The two conferences were great experiences, but being published in this proceedings series means they're less accessible to researchers. For a proceedings series, their reputation is pretty good, but their peer review is single non-blind and frequently done by the series editor rather than a subfield-specific expert. It doesn't particularly bother me, but it would have served me better to publish them in journals.

The lesson, I suppose, is that edited collections take bloody forever, garner less notice, but can be worth it if the project has inherent value to you.
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