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Lessons in Public Scholarship

Confessions of a Community College Dean

When my co-editor, Ian Bogost, and I launched our book and essay series “Object Lessons” 10 years ago, we just wanted to make some pretty short books and accessible, engaging essays about deceptively simple topics: basic things instead of big ideas.

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Experiential Education Books: 10 Great Reads for the Experiential Educator

Experiential Learning Depot

If you are an aspiring or even practicing experiential educator looking for more information about experiential learning or could use a boost of inspiration, I highly recommend that you start by reading some books about experiential education written by the experiential learning greats! I recommend reading all of the books if you can.

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‘The Last Chairlift’ and Other 2022 Fiction

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Learning Innovation For a few years, I’ve used my last blog post of the calendar year to aggregate the book reviews I’ve published over the past year. Going on the idea that higher ed people are big readers, it would be interesting to hear about what you are reading when you read fiction.

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Have Academic Library Staffing Numbers Really Declined That Much Over the Past Decade?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The idea that academic library budgets are fungible shows ignorance of how these budgets work. Over the past couple of weeks, I worked with a number of academic librarians and an expert in higher ed finance to create a series of Q&As that explored academic library funding. Again, fair criticism.

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Research in Action: Dr. Jerlando F. L. Jackson

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jackson recalls, adding that, at some point, he actually abandoned the idea of the deanship. “I This is the first in a series of articles focused on Dr. Jerlando F. “I just fell completely in love with focusing on the research, working with students, teaching classes. It was like, ‘Who was hiding this from everyone?'” I gave up.

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Interview with Robert T. Tally Jr. on historicizing 'The Hobbit'

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Anyway, it was not clear what insight into the books themselves would follow. I asked the author a series of questions by email. Your approach owes a great deal to the American Marxist literary theorist Fredric Jameson—the subject of your first book. What does it mean to read Tolkien as a Jamesonian? It has for decades.

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Landscapes of learning for unknown futures: presenter responses to audience questions (Assemblages Symposium)

SRHE

by Karen Gravett and Tim Fawns SRHE’s ‘Landscapes of Learning for Unknown Futures: prospects for space in higher education’ symposium series, delivered with Professor Sam Elkington and Dr Jill Dickinson, aims to foster continuous dialogue around learning spaces. Her latest books are: Gravett, K. Personal website: [link].