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Neutralizing negativity (or at least offsetting it)
Sometimes, you need to fight fire with fire. Taking the high road (sharing information; describing costs, benefits and risks --...
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Whom Can You Trust on Climate Change?
The furor over the stolen e-mail messages makes this a perfect time to focus on the value of peer review, writes Kevin B. Johnson.
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Battles You Don't Want to Fight
A savvy admin will pick battles carefully. I've seen too many cases of "you're right, but you're wrong to bring...
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Age and Innovation
I come from an academic family. My Dad, George Masnick, has had a long career as a demographer at Harvard...
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Mothering at Mid-Career: End of Semester Bullets and Questions
Mothering at Mid-Career: End of Semester Bullets and Questions --What happened to Thanksgiving? We had a houseful — which is...
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Sometimes I scare even myself
When I hollered "The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!", I thought I was joking. Honest. Now, according to...
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Lost Trust
The budget crisis at the University of California illustrates why faculty members can't rely on administrators to guard the real interests of higher education, writes Bob Samuels.