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Foot-Dragging and Network Externalities
My college, like most, is struggling with ways to communicate. In this context, I don't mean that in the substantive...
... or what's a meta phor?
Sometimes, life hands you a metaphor which is just absolutely perfect. I think that's the case with the current meltdown...
Brevity Is A Virtue
I have something in the new issue of Brevity, the premiere online journal of concise literary nonfiction, if you're interested...
For Show
I did a double-take when I saw this piece in the Chronicle. Apparently, the University of Georgia is dealing with...
ABC's and PhD's: The Secret Lives of Soccer Moms
My kids have been playing soccer since they were 4 years old, and just this week, I found out that...
Mothering at Mid-Career: Career Suicide and Frankenstein
I'm teaching Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein in one of my classes right now, and somehow it's striking a different chord...
Ask the Administrator: Presidential Spouses
A new correspondent writes: The small, regional university at which I teach in the Midwest has a new president. He...
Efficiency is over-rated
I got an email recently from a PR person, including a link to a report her client is currently pushing...