This is how I sometimes feel while on sabbatical and doing my own telecommuting. As a result, I've been finding temporary offices around JBU every morning so that I can get some "real work" done.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/work.at.home/dilbert/
Random Reflections on Higher Education by a Dean on Sabbatical
About Me
- Ed Ericson
- A former history professor and now college administrator, I started using this blog primarily to catalog my various reflections during a 2007 sabbatical.
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- Where's the CCCU in the Southwest?
- From assessment to good teaching
- A war we can win?
- 5-Minute University
- College grads less likely to abandon religion?
- Review of "Is the Reformation Over?"
- The decline of the secular university?
- The Return of History?
- Dilbert telecommutes
- Review of "Hard Facts"
- Should we abolish aptitude tests in college admiss...
- University Entrepreneurship in the CCCU?
- Why alumni really give to universities?
- Is this "new" generation different?
- A 3-year college?
- Do you hate libraries?
- Are we interviewing people all wrong?
- New urbanism comes to office design?
- Training over talent?
- Team over talent?
- Health care contradictions?
- Personality tests are meaningless?
- The Cellular College?
- Harvard discriminates, and that's a good thing?
- Why are blondes beautiful and suicide bombers Muslim?
- The decline of American higher education?
- Why Computer Science programs are failing?
- Predicting the commercial success of creative ende...
- The decline of civics education?
- Review of "Best Practices in Adult Learning"
- Medieval Studies and Psuedo-Medievalism collide
- Be Happy!
- Education via Prediction Markets?
- How should we educate military officers?
- Who are the terrorists?
- On-line gaming is good for you?
- Putting a price on happiness?
- Graduation rates are poor measures of effectiveness?
- Review of "Joy at Work"
- Review of "Outcomes Assessment in Higher Education"
- Educational games are BORING?
- Income inequality and higher education
- Illegal immigation is a temporary problem?
- Who is the competition?
- Review of "The Knowing-Doing Gap"
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