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Piss Christ
Readers may recall a column UD wrote about bigtime university sports for Inside Higher Ed last year, in which she...
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Reflections on Finding the Holy Grail
Today I welcome guest blogger Glen, a chum of the Churms from way back. He has done what I have...
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Tenure and Spinach
New Kid has a great post, taking to task a particularly annoying “First Person” column in the Chronicle. The column...
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Notes from the First Week Back
The Wife's birthday was this past weekend. She continues to look dramatically younger than her age, which I'll admit taking...
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Fees
The New York Times ran a front-page article yesterday with the shocking – shocking, I say – news that colleges...
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Background on the New Academy, and Questions for Bill Galston
The proposed Public Service Academy would be America's "first national civilian university" dedicated to producing "leaders of character" who would...
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Ask My Readers: One-Year Gigs and Undergraduate Research
A returning correspondent writes: I have been skimming the latest crop of advertisements for physicsfaculty, and every so often I...