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"I Need This Class to Stay on My Parents' Health Insurance"
As a political liberal -- and proud of it, thank you very much -- I believe that it's immoral for...
Sub-critical mass
Erin O’Connor, an English prof at Penn, blogs about higher ed, sometimes from a position politically to the right of...
Valentine's Gifts Even Academics Can Love
You know me. I’m a hardnosed intellectual, critic, and person of science, just like you. But Valentine’s Day is tricky—...
In the Heart of the Heart of the Most Expensive
Three of them come to mind right away, three sensitive, eager, smart literary scholars in the making in my literature...
Ask the Administrator: Time to Jump Ship?
A long-suffering correspondent writes: I have taught for now nearly two decades in a smaller field in liberal arts and...
Choir, please disregard
If we keep doing what we’ve been doing, we’ll keep getting what we’ve been getting. What most of us have...
Bifurcated Budget Begets Bad Buildings
It’s said that the modern university consists of a large number of academic and administrative departments united by a common...
Dignity Optional
The Girl had a Little Gymnast class yesterday at the Y while I was at work. (TW took her, and...