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		<title>Postcards From the Edge will return next week, as the Dean of Graduate Studies is out of town, and away from her computer</title>
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		<title>My next postcard will be from somewhere warm&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My next postcard will be from somewhere warm, heading out of Dodge on annual leave very shortly. Winter’s been brutal and it will be nice to be away from, among other things, tedious daily missives, signals and dire warnings about impending budget cuts. It’s hard not to be suspicious of all the government posturing around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Much ado about reforming PhD programs right now.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Much ado about reforming PhD programs right now. Check out the graph above. This is the most up-to-date data we have in this country. According to an article in this month’s University Affairs, “the proportion of PhD students who successfully complete their degrees within nine years has risen across all disciplines, but completion times remain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mun.ca/sgs/blog/?p=1561</link>
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		<title>You couldn’t make this up&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You couldn’t make this up. This story hit the fan this week: North Carolina governor proposes funding PSE based on students&#8217; ability to get jobs: North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory told a national radio audience Tuesday that state community colleges and universities should be funded based on how well they do at placing students in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A short blog—more like a blurb this week&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A short blog—more like a blurb this week. I am about to board for a meeting in Toronto—perishing, Arctic-icy Toronto. Sure, it’s cold here, but it’s practically balmy by comparison. I hate it when Canadians comment on how cold they think it gets here. They don’t know squat about it. We all yak about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last week was quite literally a white-out.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week was quite literally a white-out. The blizzard was forecast well ahead of time and so there were no surprises, only the extent to which most of us would be without power for a day or so. It’s true, but nothing points out our dependency on electricity like an outage. At first it’s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I welcome the new year with excitement over all the plans we have in the School of Graduate Studies&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I welcome the new year with excitement over all the plans we have in the School of Graduate Studies, but also with some trepidation over the latest trend in university planning—or should I say prioritizing? Now there’s a word I’d cheerfully chuck into the dustbin of history. Like the strain of flu in circulation right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Holidays from the Dean’s Blog!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We will return next year in January 2013 with another blog entry for you to enjoy. In the meantime, happy holidays from the Dean’s blog and thank you for your support in 2012! Thanks to CoffeeGeek for sharing their photo via flickr and creative commons.]]></description>
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		<title>I really like visiting Washington&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I really like visiting Washington. I started this blog last week when I was in DC for the annual conference of the Council of Graduate Schools. But as is often the case on the road, and especially at conferences, I couldn’t quite finish it in time. I took this snap of the White house on [...]]]></description>
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