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Administrators and Teachers: Working on the Same Agenda?
I confess having a hesitation when deciding on the title of my post today. Should it be administrators OR teachers...
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Snitches Get Stitches
My older daughter, who is in kindergarten, is one of the gentlest souls I know. She goes around our house...
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Muslim Women Scholars and the Production of Knowledge
During the past two decades, reform-oriented Muslim women scholars, also known as Islamic feminists, started “speaking for themselves”. Their voices...
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Two Lawsuits and a Funeral
Recently, two events engendered some serious self-reflection on my “why I am in the teaching profession” question: two landmark sexual...
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Teaching or Service?
I am a full-time instructor. At my institution, this means that I have a heavier teaching load, but it also...
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Financial Questions in Academic Terms
Very often over the last five years, my friends from the academia have kept me informed about their changes of...
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The Branded Professor
As a relatively new tenure-track professor in journalism and media, I teach students skills and critical thinking for a profession...
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Fear and Loathing in Academia
This month’s question regarding life balance—how we deal with writer’s block—started me thinking about how I feel about writing. It’s...