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Outside the Box
I never finished high school. After my sophomore year of high school, I left and went to college at age...
An Academic Pentathlon in Sydney: 10 Years After the Olympics
I am not going to dismiss it with “Oh. I don't know how it really happened.” I know exactly how...
When Tenure Disappears: Walking Away from the Ivory Towers
When William Julius Wilson wrote When Work Disappears in 1996, he wasn’t saying that work was actually disappearing. He was...
How Higher Ed Makes Most Things Meaningless
Lee Skallerup My academic research will not change the world. Don’t get me wrong; I love the authors I am...
Beyond the Lab or Library: On CVs, Networking and Politics
It was the kind of course you weren’t graded on, and it petered out as soon as the Academic year...
The Disappearing College Catalog
I threw a stack of college catalogs in the recycling bin last week. It was a symbolic as well as...
Out of Office
I am writing from my balcony, lit by the last rays of the sunset. It is almost 10:30 pm. Late...
The Class That Never Ends
My graduate department gave particularly brutal comprehensive exams. For our major field, we were expected to answer three questions in...