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Ask My Readers: Composition and Rhetoric Programs
A new correspondent writes: I graduated from (Elite SLAC) two years ago as an English major with a concentration in...
KNOWHOW2GO
How do we get American students out of the basement of the ivory tower? You remember the recent Atlantic magazine...
Big Jerk-Head
Several of the events at the lit festival I went to last weekend convened in a narrow room above a...
A convenient falsehood (?)
This morning's newspaper features an Associated Press article about a Brookings Institution ranking of the 100 largest US cities, based...
Let's Do the Time Warp Again
Reason #456 we need to hire the next generation of administrators, from an actual conversation I had this week with...
Math Mom: Fitting In
Let me clear up any misconception. I am a tenured faculty member at a celebrated liberal arts institution who will...
ABCs and PhDs: Simplicity
I have a friend who’s coming up for tenure at a major research university this summer. He calls it his...
Well, That Was Quick...
It's easy to underestimate the impact of sex scandals. According to this article from the Albany (NY) Times-Union, Governor Paterson...