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  1. RT @samplereality: And to be even more blunt: some entire Ph.D-granting programs should be eliminated. I know, it's heresy.
  2. RT @profsyn: After 88-92 recession, MLA job listings stayed flat for following SIX years. [this makes "always historicize!" seem depressing]
  3. To state the obvious, producing even more PhDs in English while the market contracts by 51% over 2 years is unsustainable. And inhumane.
  4. IHE: "The number of new doctorates awarded in 2008 was up slightly in English (to 965 from 927)." http://bit.ly/5hOlnt
  5. IHE: "the two-year decline in available positions is 51 percent in English and 55 percent in foreign languages." http://bit.ly/5hOlnt
  6. Matching Teaching Style to Learning Style May Not Help Students http://bit.ly/7DsNAQ (via @chronicle)
  7. Bookfuturism: "a digital commons and multi-user blog open to anyone interested in the future of reading" http://bookfuturism.com/
  8. Fascinating site/blog: The Future of the Book: http://bit.ly/x8byh (via @englishcomp)
  9. In other fair use news: Argentine philosophy prof won't see jail time for providing Derrida translations to students http://bit.ly/7wrDeg
  10. Interestingly, the Dept. of Ed. data says my institution has a 2 yr cohort default rate of 1.2% & a 3 yr rate of 1.9%. Amazing numbers, ATC.
  11. New Measure of Student-Loan Defaults Could Threaten Hundreds of Colleges http://bit.ly/5Y7YO2 (via @chronicle)
  12. @jcmeloni's new @ProfHacker post, "Talking About Fair Use in the Classroom," includes tips for interrogating fair use: http://bit.ly/7J239M
  13. The iTunes-ization of short fiction is here http://bit.ly/5umUZ7 (via @escapeintolife)
  14. Colleges serving 'traditional' students must realize that these students are now the minority. http://bit.ly/8GbDKu (via @jeffabernathy)
  15. Stephen Toulmin: Michael Ruse celebrates the life of a man who lived the life of the mind to the full http://bit.ly/64JVMG (via @PD_Smith)
  16. Brian Cox and a child work on Hamlet's "To be or not to be" speech: http://bit.ly/6sETUS (via @billwolff & @chutry)
  17. From Wired: "Modeling Human Drug Trials—Without the Human." Using computers to run virtual clinical trials. http://bit.ly/5gMUDS
  18. Stanley Fish: Tenured & TT teachers now make up only 35% of the pedagogical workforce http://bit.ly/5FLInm (via @clioweb & @barbarahui)
  19. Left the room for twenty seconds and returned to find the Christmas tree knocked over. Both twins looked up innocently and said, "uh oh!"
  20. RT Tests hamper students to think like Einstein http://ow.ly/KZzW (via @hastac)