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Lessons Learned
Paula M. Krebs considers the way applying for a major foundation grant offers ideas for managing academic life generally.
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Imagine the Chancellor
Doesn’t have to be the Chancellor. Could be. Drives a Beemer. Big smile, pants are too tight at the waist...
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'Too Good' for Tenure?
Like most young faculty members, I began my first job with my eyes on the prize six years ahead --...
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The Tempest, Act 3
Two weeks ago we went to see The Tempest at the University of Illinois’ Krannert Center f or the Performing...
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Ask My Readers: Grad School Admissions
An assiduous undergraduate correspondent writes: Is it actually encouraged to email prospective advisors at the schools to which you will...
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Cheap Thrill
It's always a cheap thrill when psychiatrists - especially academic psychiatrists - turn out to be infantile, ridiculous people. An...
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Faking It, With 2 Books and More
Terry Caesar considers the assumptions academics make about fellow academics -- many times based on a less than complete reality.
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Bad Job, but Not Malpractice
Sherman Dorn has a thoughtful post up about the difficulties institutions have in dealing with faculty instructional practices that aren't...