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MOTHERHOOD AFTER TENURE
This is an excerpt from the essay, "Motherhood After Tenure: Confessions of a Late Bloomer" published in Mama, PhD: Women...
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Megacity, Many Questions
Our old friend Charlie Hailey, who happens to be young and brilliant, told me I should read the wonderfully-named Lars...
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Ask the Administrator: Selling Assessment
A new correspondent writes: I'm interviewing for an interesting non-faculty position soon, and before I go in to the interview...
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It's All Geek to Me
We have, by contemporary standards, a mixed marriage, for I am a nerd, while my wife is a geek. A...
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ABCs and PhDs: What next?
I've been away from teaching for four years now, since our relocation to the Vancouver area and the subsequent birth...
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The University of Ohiopennkaniowatenn
How the NCAA's academic rules for athletes play out on campuses is hugely influenced -- and complicated -- by each institution's own policies, writes Todd Diacon.
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On the Fringe
Looking around at my fellow adjunct professors, it bothers me how many are mothers holding PhDs. I can’t help but...
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Ask the Administrator: Firing Student Assistants
A regular reader writes: I'd love to hear people's advice on how to fire student assistants gracefully. Better still, I'd...