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Beyond the beyond
Paycheck envy aside, I'm glad I'm not a university president. Long hours, too many constituencies bringing too many competing priorities...
Elementary Ed in a University Town
Champaign-Urbana is not a small town, though it’s often thought of as one. It’s actually two cities, of course, with...
Transparency and Reciprocity
Tim Burke and Chad Orzel have recently posted some helpful thoughts on tenure and its assumptions. This paragraph of Chad's...
The first rule of Scrap Club
... is that you do talk about Scrap Club. According to a piece that I heard on public radio this...
You Know the Type
"Proles," explains Paul Fussell in his book Class, "like to use words that normally appear only in newspapers. They don't...
How Not to Conduct a Presidential Search
An alert reader sent me a link to these articles in the Rochester (NY) Democrat and Chronicle, detailing the goings-on...
My Other Stuff
One of the added benefits (for me, anyway) of revealing my real name is being able to share other published...
National Service
Every election year, we start to get proposals for various national service programs as ways to pay for college. The...