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On being "adequate" in higher education
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Joni Cook, 2010 (?) - February 10, 2024
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The '90s Music Weekend of My Dreams
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My sobriety now has a bachelor's degree.
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"Horses Don't Eat Moon Pies" by Pat Conroy (Part 1)
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Higher Ed's Obsession of the Decade: Enrollment
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Trump vs. the Department of Education
Plus, Gladiator II now in theaters. Happy Friday.
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25:00
FutureIU: Grassroots, Faculty-driven, Future-focused
Plus, more bad ideas about writing and AI.
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Universities in the Second Age of Trump
Also: Disney World on fire? Billy Bob Thornton plays a grizzled West Texas oil man in a new show from Paramount+.
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Postmortem
Sen. Bernie Sanders on where the Democrats went wrong.
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18:49
"Elections have consequences."
On Trump and tyranny.
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Google's NotebookLM is Scary Cool.
I fed it the proofs of my new book, and it made a podcast about it. Humans take note.
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The Xennial Dilemma
Navigating Academia in the Age of Digital Disruption
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The Highlight Zone is a newsletter devoted to exploring the intersections of higher education, digital and media literacy, and the postdigital age.
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