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Blog Birthday Bits
Today is the third birthday of the blog. To celebrate (okay, not really, but a segue is a segue), I'll...
Study Skills Courses?
Apparently, a new study suggests that 'study skills' courses for college freshmen improves eventual academic success rates. This bothers me...
Antioch and Philanthropy
Antioch's demise has brought forth a great deal of ink, much of it smugly self-congratulatory, or bitter, or both. Colleges...
Waking The Boy
Although he gets a solid twelve hours a night (!), on some school mornings, TB really, really doesn't want to...
All About Greed
"[T]he NCAA, through all of their summits, hasn't accomplished anything to benefit the student athlete. People who say that one...
No, Not Really
In order to halt growing criticism (covered by Inside Higher Ed and the New York Times) of their ranking of...
Mrs. McSweeney
I was plucked by McSweeney’s Internet Tendency from gray anonymity and propelled onto the glamorous stage of Internet pseudonymity...
Ask the Administrator: Those Pesky Spouses Again...
A newly-chosen department chair writes (obfuscated for anonymity): ------ We have a looming problem -- a beloved colleague of (several)...