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Introducing Myself

Teresa Mangum offers perspective on the job search -- having launched hers during a previous economic downturn.
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A Dish Best Served Cold

Shakespeare wrote one of the most savage plays in the canon. Scott McLemee visits the dark side.
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AWP: Final

Look, I’m not a conference guy. I’m a walk in the woods guy, an afternoon tea guy, a thicken-the-stew-with-flour, homebody-underwater-Emily-Dickinson-multipledraft-Boston-Fern-natural-light-kids-on-the-lap...
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Let Professors Choose

As they look to cut their budgets, college administrators shouldn't impose across-the-board, one-size-fits-all solutions -- hiring freezes, salary cuts, etc. -- on their faculties, James Miller argues.
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Math Geek Mom: Finding a Voice

When I was in high school in the late 1970s, I was very good at doing well in my classes...
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Process and Word Problems

Academic administrators aren't the only administrators on a campus. We routinely interact with the folks who run the business side...
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The Why and How of Human Terrain Teams

Adam L. Silverman, a social science advisor to the U.S. Army program, which embeds academics with brigade combat teams, explains what he does, and why.
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An Open Letter to President Obama

Drew A. Bennett offers the perspective of a two-year college leader on some ideas for change that wouldn't require a new stimulus bill.