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The Limits of Transparency
Search Committee Chair: The job starts next semester. Can you do that? Candidate: No problem! Rarin' to go! Woo-hoo! (skip...
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Guest Post: On Seeing Clearly
[ Recently I asked writer, editor and teacher Dinty W. Moore to join the conversation on teaching creative writing, and...
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Just a Job
Picking up on the premodern vs. modern theme of yesterday's post, Grad School Friend (who is on the tenure track...
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Scathing Online Schoolmarm
Norman Mailer has won England's annual Bad Sex Award, posthumously, for a passage in one of his last novels. Here's...
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Plate of Shrimp
"It's like when someone says plate. And then someone says shrimp. And then someone says plate of shrimp .... It's...
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What John Warner Knows
My guest today is John Warner, editor of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, a man who once took a chance on a...
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Recruiting Without Paying
A returning correspondent writes: I'm just starting to think of the hiring season and, while I'm at a urban high...
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Deconstructing Faculty Work
Over the past decade much discussion has focused on the growing percentage of college teaching done by contingent faculty. Variously...