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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...
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...
Cheap Thrill
It's always a cheap thrill when psychiatrists - especially academic psychiatrists - turn out to be infantile, ridiculous people. An...
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...
Charity and Sustainability
I don't usually do followup posts, but this topic seems to need one. In higher ed, there's no such thing...
Scathing Online Schoolmarm
This post's subtitle rewrites something Hamlet said: How all occasions do inform against me... Prose discloses. However much you think...
The Charity Shakedown
A long-suffering correspondent writes: My SLAC employer conducts an annual United Way fundraising drive. Earlier this fall, a letter was...
Kids
What are the odds? There was actually a staggeringly brilliant piece in the New York Times yesterday! (The piece is...