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Career Coach: To Stay or to Go
I have been asked to write about a dilemma many academics face now: whether to stay or go. What do...
A Novel of a Writer-Teacher
Do you know the writer Thomas E. Kennedy? I’m embarrassed to say I only learned of his work a couple...
Leveraging Crisis for Competitive Advantage
The unusually large reductions in state appropriations to higher education in many states and the impact of the current record...
Dust Bunnies of the Mind
--Blackboard is buying Angel. As soon as we got the news, we made an appointment to meet with some counterparts...
Math Geek Mom: The Peaceful Pottery Professor
If, God forbid, your sister was violently murdered, to what ends would you go to make sure no one else...
The green rubber snake
A week ago, Paul Krugman published an op-ed piece which pretty much sums up the relationship between sustainability and the...
Long Distance Mom: Interns and Parenting
For the last three months a German film student has been living in the basement of my Chicago home. David...
Breakfast with The Boy
TB: Yesterday I was scared when I was in my room. I thought I saw an alien go by outside...