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Ask the Administrator: Thinking About Crossing Over
A returning correspondent writes: After five years, I am resigning from my tenure-track position in a humanities field. My book...
Who Are We?
I was perusing my Chronicle of Higher Ed. Almanac this afternoon. I learned that: --About 2.6 million folks work in...
The rubber meets the road, or the face meets the snow
September 15 is fast approaching. On that date, over 200 charter signatories of the American College and University Presidents Climate...
ABC's and PhD's: "New Year's" Resolutions
Every year at this time I re-evaluate my daily schedule and get ready for the start of the new year...
If Stephen Colbert Did the Annual Kickoff Meeting...
(in the style of "The Word") Faculty and distinguished colleagues, (Slide: "And the undistinguished among you, too...") welcome back from...
Demand and Supply
One of the challenges of catalyzing a transformation of higher education towards an active learning model is that students are...
Whack-A-Mole
Keeping with the amusement park theme from yesterday (variations on a theme park?), most of yesterday was devoted to a...
Mothering at Mid-Career:A Sort of Homecoming
There's a crispness to the air today, a snap that makes me think fall is on the way. New England...