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April 26, 2015

Author Interview: Double Duplicity by Paty Jager

Award-winning author Paty Jager and her husband raise alfalfa hay in rural eastern Oregon. On her road to publication she wrote freelance articles for two local newspapers and enjoyed her job with the County Extension service as a 4-H Program Assistant. Raising hay and cattle, riding horses, and battling rattlesnakes, she not only writes the …

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April 9, 2015

COLLEGE MISERY: What’s next, fake jury summonses? A Really Pro-Active Recruiting Initiative from UF

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March 21, 2015

All persons and events are really, really fictional I swear: Self-Published Novelist Defamed In-Laws in €53k Payout Case | The Independent Publishing Magazine

Self-Published Novelist Defamed In-Laws in €53k Payout Case | The Independent Publishing Magazine. "Brígida was portrayed as a loose woman who was unfaithful to her husband, António. It was said that Floro had done his son out of his money, visited prostitutes, had extra-marital affairs and died of Aids. His wife, Inocência, was described as …

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January 5, 2013

First, spend a semester teaching intro comp. Then you can write about the “cushy” life of a college professor.

Gawker is on the story. "Even when school is in session they don't spend too many hours in the classroom. For tenure-track professors, there is some pressure to publish books and articles, but deadlines are few. Working conditions tend to be cozy and civilized and there are minimal travel demands, except perhaps a non-mandatory conference …

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December 20, 2012

You can go to jail for grade-fixing.

I have to admit, I derived an unseemly amount of satisfaction from this story. He was the kind of school administrator some college students might have considered themselves lucky to encounter, someone who was willing to raise grades issued by professors when the students’ marks fell short of graduation requirements...Mr. Koutsoutis, 56, who was director …

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November 15, 2012

So I come to school with my shirt inside-out

...after going to my early morning community meeting, also with my shirt inside-out. But the day was only starting. So I was in my office and I decided to take a break and read Gawker but just as I pulled the page up a student walked in to ask about registering for a class, and when …

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October 26, 2012

Go to eBay. Search clown doll.

Let the nightmares commence.

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October 26, 2012

“If you don’t have enough jobs….you cannot train your way to victory.”

Higher ed is great. It's a public good and a private good. If it weren't for higher ed, I'd have to set my murder mysteries somewhere else. But training displaced workers doesn't make jobs magically appear; not only that, the time spent retraining may have been better spent looking for employment: "What is more surprising …

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October 3, 2012

The Completion Agenda

These universities have signed up for Project Degree Completion, the goal of which is to increase the number of baccalaureate-degree holders by 3.8 million by 2025. I'm sure they've thought through all of the possible consequences of a single-minded focus on increasing the number of college graduates.

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