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The end is near: It’s time to grade the stacks of final papers, estimate student participation grades, tabulate everything and...

Although much that comes across the academic administrative desk shines with the bright light of pride and promotion -- expensively...

My mother and I were sitting in a booth in a J.C. Penney’s lunchroom, sometime in the late ‘60s or...

My mother-in-law and I were discussing small-town life. She’s originally from Inverness, Scotland, which used to be smaller than it...

Everyone who lives the life of academic administration receives a steady flow of publications in their mail and email streams...

I may have the best deal in all of adjunctdom. My teaching load is 3/3, and I have full health...

When I was accepted to grad school, I had a big problem: In order to get my fellowship, I’d have...