Filter & Sort
An announcement and an accounting
First the announcement: the RSS feed is fixed. Those of you who aren't into RSS don't care, but some of...
Louisville Sluggards
An alert reader sent me a link to this article in the Louisville Courier-Journal. Apparently, Kentucky passed some 'reforms' about...
Who's Your Audience?
As an academic on a national job search, I read Richard Florida's latest, Who's Your City?, with mixed emotions. Florida...
AOL
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by access, craving hysterical naked dragging themselves through wired rooms at...
The Rest of Spring Break
We’re finishing our spring break with a couple of days at the Hyatt on the Chicago River, and this view...
Little boxes on the campus-side
More emails go by, some asking whether schools have disallowed first-year students from bringing cars, and what the results have...
Ask the Administrator: Faculty or Staff?
A young correspondent writes: I'm writing to ask your opinion about attending graduate school. I recently graduated from a [public]...
On messages and bottles and such
According to emails that have come across my screen, students from Seattle, WA to Cambridge, MA are organizing to ban...