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		<title>Our Universities: Donner Party Politics</title>
		<link>http://walterwendler.com/2012/02/our-universities-donner-party-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unbridled, ill-conceived, or poorly implemented regulation often creates undesirable outcomes. Legislators refer to such results as unintended consequences. Sometimes, such consequences are the result of well-meant actions, imposed by parties unfamiliar with the underlying complexity of a situation. When assumptions &#8230; <a href="http://walterwendler.com/2012/02/our-universities-donner-party-politics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>﻿﻿Our Universities: Collegiate Cronyism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The absence of transparency and forthrightness can destroy organizations built on trust &#8211; churches, universities and the like. Lacking these, educational institutions become like Wal-Mart. Now, I am a Wal-Mart fan, but I find myself on guard every time I &#8230; <a href="http://walterwendler.com/2012/02/%ef%bb%bf%ef%bb%bfour-universities-collegiate-cronyism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Our Universities: Certification</title>
		<link>http://walterwendler.com/2012/02/our-university-certification/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In many cases, a college diploma has come to represent exposure to certain experiences rather than individual learning and accomplishment. Absent gross misconduct, everybody passes. The degree is simply a totem of club membership rather than an indication of a &#8230; <a href="http://walterwendler.com/2012/02/our-university-certification/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Our Universities: Competition</title>
		<link>http://walterwendler.com/2012/02/our-universities-competition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wendler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Competition for ideas is unlike competition for anything else.  If we compete to harvest the most gold, we find a limited supply.  Fastest person, physiology sets in.  Universities should compete for ideas, and those ideas will generate new resources. We &#8230; <a href="http://walterwendler.com/2012/02/our-universities-competition/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Our Universities: Curiosity</title>
		<link>http://walterwendler.com/2012/01/our-universities-rockin-robin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We tend to find what we look for. You know the old expression, if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Those students who look for an intellectual challenge find it&#8230; most universities willingly oblige them. &#8230; <a href="http://walterwendler.com/2012/01/our-universities-rockin-robin/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Our University: Marriage</title>
		<link>http://walterwendler.com/2012/01/our-university-marriage/</link>
		<comments>http://walterwendler.com/2012/01/our-university-marriage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wendler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The relationship of a student to the university is a bit like a marriage. The idea of that relationship is shifting as George Bernard Shaw predicted it would. As with marriage, the university experience is becoming a contractual affiliation rather than &#8230; <a href="http://walterwendler.com/2012/01/our-university-marriage/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Our Universities: Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth</title>
		<link>http://walterwendler.com/2012/01/our-universities-wailing-and-gnashing-of-teeth-2/</link>
		<comments>http://walterwendler.com/2012/01/our-universities-wailing-and-gnashing-of-teeth-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wendler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well-meaning faculty members, university leaders, and groups of students and parents have always found that the most navigable and widely paved path to address increasing costs leads straight to the state house. That mindless “hair-of-the-dog” economic thinking is antiquated. And, &#8230; <a href="http://walterwendler.com/2012/01/our-universities-wailing-and-gnashing-of-teeth-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Our Universities: Sowing and Reaping</title>
		<link>http://walterwendler.com/2012/01/our-universities-sowing-and-reaping/</link>
		<comments>http://walterwendler.com/2012/01/our-universities-sowing-and-reaping/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wendler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The best ideas confront common sense with a baseball bat. They defy logic because we cannot see beyond overly simplistic views of how things work. If you give something away it must have little or no value. Right? Wake the &#8230; <a href="http://walterwendler.com/2012/01/our-universities-sowing-and-reaping/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Our University:  Summertime Revisited</title>
		<link>http://walterwendler.com/2011/12/our-university-summertime-revisited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wendler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we move past the shortest day of the year, my thoughts turn to the eventual return of languid summer days. This column about how universities could make better use of their facilities and faculty during the summer months first &#8230; <a href="http://walterwendler.com/2011/12/our-university-summertime-revisited/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Our Universities: Eighteen Inches</title>
		<link>http://walterwendler.com/2011/12/our-universities-eighteen-inches/</link>
		<comments>http://walterwendler.com/2011/12/our-universities-eighteen-inches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wendler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each person’s head and heart, the twin seats or our identity, lie just eighteen inches apart, about a cubit. The connection between them is being stretched to the breaking point by universities and other institutions that have tried desperately to &#8230; <a href="http://walterwendler.com/2011/12/our-universities-eighteen-inches/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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