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Waking The Boy
Although he gets a solid twelve hours a night (!), on some school mornings, TB really, really doesn't want to...
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All About Greed
"[T]he NCAA, through all of their summits, hasn't accomplished anything to benefit the student athlete. People who say that one...
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No, Not Really
In order to halt growing criticism (covered by Inside Higher Ed and the New York Times) of their ranking of...
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Mrs. McSweeney
I was plucked by McSweeney’s Internet Tendency from gray anonymity and propelled onto the glamorous stage of Internet pseudonymity...
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Ask the Administrator: Those Pesky Spouses Again...
A newly-chosen department chair writes (obfuscated for anonymity): ------ We have a looming problem -- a beloved colleague of (several)...
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La Vie UD
The things I'll do for a post! I've dragged myself through hellish evening heat (summer's up and running in DC)...
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What Is Higher Education?
Many of us find it challenging to explain the American higher education system to non-academic audiences (and sometimes to academic...
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There's Distance Ed, and Then There's Distance Ed
Our distance ed coordinator stopped me in the cafeteria last week to report that she's trying to enroll a student...