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Sequestration reality check
The last time I did algebra in these pages, I crashed and burned. But the compulsion, triggered by President Obama's...
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Motherhood after tenure: evaluation time
We received our fall semester course evaluations on the first day of the spring semester. The timing seems akin to...
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Course Evaluations, Years Later
Professors may get much better feedback by waiting a while -- and then asking students to reflect on what stayed with them, writes Tom Deans.
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Are Green Jobs the New Metric System?
A few years ago I mentioned my bewilderment at why the failure of the push to adopt the metric system...
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In praise of Gordon Gekko
Today, I got lucky. It's usually better to be lucky than good (a poker player told me that one). It's...
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Mashing not Viewing
Is the debate we are having about copyright and online streaming of course video (behind a password through the LMS)...
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ABCs and PhD's: The five-year plan
When I was pregnant with my daughter and unsure what was going to happen to my academic career, a woman...
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A Road Less Traveled
Michael Benson considers lessons of path that led him from a doctorate in Middle Eastern history to a job roofing houses to fund raising and to college presidencies.