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Lessons of an Academic Vagabond

Having worked at five different colleges, Melissa Nicolas writes that there are commonalities every tenure-track faculty member needs to remember.
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Meatball Surgery of the Mind

The psychiatric emergency room is where people have the worst day of their lives. Scott McLemee recommends a gripping memoir.
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Rights of Return

I just got an email from a reader who has tenure at hir current college, but is considering a deanship...
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Thanks be to Sam

As the new semester gets underway, there are a million things on my plate. Working with profs on curriculum revisions...
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The Importance of Place

Innovation in learning catalyzed by technology operates most productively when centered on a physical space. I think all of us...
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Mothering at Mid-Career: Advice to my daughter (and other bright humanities undergrads)

Dear Mariah, As you head back to college for your second semester, I find I don't really have any important...
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Janus Generation

Are students lazy, technologically sophisticated or both? Jerry Pattengale evaluates the evidence.
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Becoming Accident Prone

I read somewhere that you can't make accidents happen, but you can make yourself accident prone. I'm looking at ways...