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Motherhood After Tenure: the value of collaboration
As I plan the upcoming semester’s courses, I contemplate the oft-emailed articles about the “millennial generation” students. I’m skeptical of...
Delete, Delete, Delete
Over the past few years, I’ve received job announcements from headhunters on a fairly regular basis. They aren’t personalized, so...
ABC's and PhD's: Balancing husband and computer along with family and work
Weekend evenings in July a professional team of actors perform a Shakespeare play on a stage plunked in the middle...
Ask the Administrator: Hurry Up and Wait
A flustered correspondent writes: I have a math PhD from a good midwestern university, good teaching experience in the past...
In the final analysis ...
... it may not matter if we (humans) kill our fool selves off. According to research conducted at Arizona State...
Mothering at Mid-Career: Do professors matter?
Somewhere in my blog reading over the last few weeks I ran across a link to a brief piece in...
Editing and Intimacy
This post of Aunt B's, over at Tiny Cat Pants, struck a chord. Close editing, as distinguished from scanning-for-typos, is...
Hosts, beneficial parasites, ratios and the like
Susan Rogers at SCUP shared with me some data on the membership of that organization, and it turns out that...