Columns

A returning correspondent writes: Well, here I am having just completed my first year as a tenure track faculty member...

By Dean Dad

I don't usually do back-to-back posts on the New York Times, but this Sunday's issue provided atypically fine fodder. According...

By Dean Dad

Poet Rory commented on my previous posting’s line about “newcomer Chicago with her wild-onion breath,” only deepening what is probably...

By Oronte

According to this article in the New York Times, the question of nerd-dom is finally starting to receive a tiny...

By Dean Dad

The New York Times noticed in its edition of July 29, 2007 the introduction of differential tuition by field into...

By John V. Lombardi

"The idea that you almost forgot about the world you came from, and the job market you're about to enter...that...

By UD

A tenured, Canadian correspondent writes: I never used to have ambition to reach "full" level as it seemed beyond the...

By Dean Dad

A grad student in psychology writes: I am an ABD grad student and am teaching my first class at a...

By Dean Dad