It's the freakin week and I'm gonna have me some fun.

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• I thought about going to see the awesome Spring Weekend lineup, but then I just thought, naw, I'll just wait to read about it in the BDH.
• Remember when we used to talk about assessment? Well apparently faculty wring their hands about it all the time. Here's a useful guide to some of the challenges in assessing something as nebulous as academic quality.
• Everybody is trying to figure out how to keep tuition down and scholarships up. Here are three different strategies in the news today. High tuition/High aid at W+M, tuition freeze at Purdue, and per-course demand-based fees at CA community colleges.
• Higher ed in the postindustrial economy: A steel plant closes in Baltimore, and a community college tries to absorb the casualties, with mixed results. (Speaking of mixed, how'd ya like that metaphor?).
• Do you avoid using "I" in your academic writing? For this dissertator in Britain, the death of the author is greatly overrated. 
• And it just wouldn't be the Daily Links without something depressing from the job market front. In this issue, we see the problem with Government interference in health care and/or Government unwillingness to just cover everybody completely already.