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Academic and Financial Officers
Sometimes I think I’ve been blessed. At my college, the academic and financial sides of administration work well together. This...
ABC's and Ph.D.'s: Chess
Every year the fourth grade math teacher at my daughter’s school teaches all the fourth grade students to play chess...
They Shoot the Intellectuals First
What happens when your scholarship is considered a crime? When the state tries to stop you? What do you do...
A Biography of Plastic
Plastic: A Toxic Love Story by Susan Freinkel A Challenge: Write down every object that you use in one day...
Advocacy and academe
Climate change. Energy supply. Economic activity. Employment. Public health. Water pollution. Species die-off. Penn State. Pitt. Cornell. Research. Public funding...
Media Coverage of Global Higher Education: Only in English, Please
A few weeks ago I attended the First International World Views Conference on Media and Higher Education in Toronto. A...
The Girl at 7
The Girl had her seventh birthday yesterday. TW’s parents made the journey for the occasion, and we did the whole...
Nothing Personal: How Database Licenses Make Pirates of Us All
The other day, as I was tracking down the text of a classic article in JSTOR to refer to in...