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Confessions of a Community College Dean
In which a veteran of cultural studies seminars in the 1990’s moves into academic administration ...

Staff Teaching
By Dean Dad July 1, 2009 8:52 pm

My college is grappling with this issue now, and I’m wondering how others have handled it.We have some twelve-month professional staff – counselors, librarians, etc. – who would like to be able to teach the occasional class during their regular workday as part of their regular workload.We have a longstanding practice of allowing staff to teach on an adjunct basis outside of their regular ...

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Getting to Green
An administrator pushes, on a shoestring budget, to move his university and the world toward a more ...

Connotation update
By G. Rendell July 2, 2009 2:53 pm

This just came across my desktop. Thought it was worth sharing.

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Intellectual Affairs - The Blog
The blogging annex to Scott McLemee's weekly column

My Back Pages
By Scott McLemee June 26, 2009 9:31 am

Recent news reminds me of a couple of items that are now topical again.One is a piece on Michael Jackson from early 2006. The other, from December, is a column on a book called The Art of the Public Grovel, which with the benefit of hindsight Gov. Sanford might wish he had read while on the beach in Argentina.

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Mama PhD
Mothers attempting to balance parenthood and academics

Motherhood After Tenure: Finding Focus, Letting Things Go
By Aeron Haynie July 1, 2009 8:47 pm

I’ve just realized that when I’m exercising I take responsibility for the whole room. Let me clarify: I’m not teaching this class, just working out. But I feel compelled to smile encouragingly to the newbie, notice when the person behind me seems exhausted, and worry about the folks who are off-rhythm. I watch the clock, check out the muscle tone on the (much) younger woman in front of me, ...

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Reality Check
The Reality Check blog, from John V. Lombardi, follows the endlessly fascinating parade of ...

Leveraging Crisis for Competitive Advantage
By John V. Lombardi May 8, 2009 6:32 am

The unusually large reductions in state appropriations to higher education in many states and the impact of the current record setting economic decline on other sources of university funding has pushed institutional responses into high visibility. We usually interpret America’s never ending economic crisis in higher education as instances of unique phenomena, each one requiring new dramatic ...

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The Education of Oronte Churm
Oronte Churm, lecturer in English, writes about the weird and sometimes beautiful thing we call ...

The Problems of Scholarship, Solved
By Oronte July 2, 2009 12:28 am

Because I’m on such a tight deadline I pretty much read, write, or think about my topic all the time, so when I go to bed I like to treat myself to something diverting. That’s why I’ve been reading Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621; selected edition by Michigan State UP, 1965).Though it pretends to be a kind of medical textbook, it’s one of those big crazy erudite rambling ...

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University Diaries
A professor of English describes American University life.

FIRST WE FEEL. THEN WE FALL.
By UD June 28, 2009 7:39 pm

"One wants glimpses of the real," wrote Harold Brodkey in his last journal entry before his death. "One almost never gets the real thing," lamented Saul Bellow in his last novel, Ravelstein. Embodied in God, or a loved one, or, say, an adored work of literature or music, the experience of the real, the real thing, must be a perception of the truth of existence. At the very least the truth of ...

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