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The Girl at Three
The Girl turned three last week. She's very different from her brother. With The Boy, you can see the man...
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A Really Bizarre Thing
Is this altogether a bad idea? Wisconsin's State Assembly has voted to end all funding for the law school at...
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Summer Idyll
It was blessedly cool and bright today, and I walked over to campus, where I haven’t been in weeks. I...
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Ask the Administrator: Sports at Community Colleges
A new correspondent writes: Here at Way Up North CC, our little gym just died, and we're renovating it from...
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Ask the Administrator: The Trial Run
A new correspondent writes: I'm currently ABD in an English Department at an R1 school, working on my dissertation and...
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Shake Your Moneymaker
Murray Sperber writes in Declining by Degrees that an “Academic Arms Race” began in the post-Sputnik boom-era for higher ed...
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Ask the Administrator: Letters and Writing Samples
A grad school aspirant writes (edited for length): Applying for grad school is pretty different than applying for undergrad, and...
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The Press Continues to Press
Not to get all sentimental about it, but one of the highest purposes of a free press is to expose...