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The Unlikelihood of Fathers
I didn’t grow up with a father, so my two sons have exactly as much experience with actual fatherhood as...
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Blog Birthday Bits
Today is the third birthday of the blog. To celebrate (okay, not really, but a segue is a segue), I'll...
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Study Skills Courses?
Apparently, a new study suggests that 'study skills' courses for college freshmen improves eventual academic success rates. This bothers me...
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Antioch and Philanthropy
Antioch's demise has brought forth a great deal of ink, much of it smugly self-congratulatory, or bitter, or both. Colleges...
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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...