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I've never found an elegant way around the add/drop period. This is the time of the semester when late-adding students...

This is the second week of my sabbatical and already I have a sinking feeling that I’m not accomplishing enough...

The patch of woods outside my front door is in trouble. After we moved into our neighborhood four years ago...

A new correspondent writes: I have a question about college teaching as a second career. Most of the advice I've...

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN will fire up Wednesday morning, though “it might take a month or two to...

Another campus sustainability competition is underway, and this one has a video feed. Actually, it's not "another" competition -- it's...

I've seen two major personality types fail at deaning, each for the same reason: administrivia. Administrivia is the barrage of...

I've been saving links* to the Sarah Palin coverage for the last week and a half, but I'm still feeling...