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A BLOGGER RUNS THROUGH IT - Part One

UD has stepped in the same river twice, and reread, after twenty years, Norman Maclean's story, A River Runs Through...
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AASHE 2008 - Tuesday, Nov. 11

So if the title is "Tuesday", why am I posting this on a Thursday? Simple -- when the conference ended...
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Motherhood After Tenure: the Pedagogy of Parents' Night

Last night I attended a parents’-night talk on healthy eating at my daughter’s preschool. I had no intention of going...
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Birthing Pains and the Emergence of a New Social Narrative

Beverly Daniel Tatum considers why, as so many students rejoice in the election of Barack Obama, some campuses are experiencing racial incidents linked to the election.
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Responses to the Gates Foundation

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced that community colleges will be the next beneficiaries of their largesse. A...
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ABCs and Ph.D.s: Frills, lace, and dressing for success

I know that my mother and mother-in-law laugh at me behind my back. After all, I’ve taken some pretty ridiculous...
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Saying Farewell to a Man of Letters

The late John Leonard was a one-man cultural-studies symposium. Scott McLemee reminisces...
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A Promising First Novel

TB, who is in second grade, wrote his first novel yesterday. With names changed, and sans the distinctive illustrations, an...