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Motherhood After Tenure: Fearful Parents?
Peggy Orenstein’s recent column in the New York Times about parental fears in response to a USA Today report on...
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Ask the Administrator: Interdisciplinarity and Risk Aversion
A new correspondent writes: I will be graduating from a smaller campus of a Big 10 University this May with...
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The second best idea for campus recycling
Greenback U has a lot of recycling containers on campus. Many are for paper only, some are for paper and...
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ABCs and PhD's: The gentler side of Darwin
I’ve been planning a birthday party this week with my daughter. Her birthday is Feb. 13, sandwiched right in between...
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Retrenchment
We're starting to use the R word in a really serious way. Even with reducing the number of deans, we...
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Mothering at Mid-Career: My New Role Model
I’m wondering if I should make Jill Biden my role model. It’s too late, of course, but I’m impressed by...
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Blog Post-Its
Netbooks strike me as some of the best news for community colleges in a long time. In many cases, all...
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The best idea yet for improving campus recycling
As the economy has gone into the crapper, so has the market for most recyclable materials. It just doesn't pay...