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Can't Leave Your Brain Behind
Vacation is supposed to be a time away from one’s normal routine – an escape from the drudgery of day-to-day...
From the Tenure Side-Lines
I took the unthinkable step off the tenure track when my second son was born. I have no desire to...
Transnational Academic Feminism: The Case of Handwriting
Guest blogger, Karin Sarsenov, writing from Lund, Sweden. Summer is the blessed time for international conferencing, and for yours truly...
The Campus is Flat. The reach is Global.
Nicolle Merrill, writing from Portland, Oregon in the USA. In my job, my daily tasks revolve around creating an engaging...
Students Arrive in One Week
600 international ESL students. 3 levels of English. 3 academic tracks in 2 divisions: undergraduate and graduate. 4 or 5...
Effective Use of Chocolate aka How to Bribe Your Registrar
A good friend of mine claims that when he was an undergraduate, he always returned to school late, bearing a...
#ASA2010, Multi-tasking the Academic Conference
Atlanta in August – hot, humid, and sticky. It had been seven years since I had attended the American Sociological...
So What Are You Going To Be When You Grow Up?
“So what can you do with a degree in Cultural Studies?” I felt the deer-caught-in-headlights look come over my face...