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Tis the Season
It is typical at the end of both the fall and spring semesters that there are extra meetings as every...
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Incomplete Information
I am enrolled in two singing classes. One I attend religiously; the other sporadically — it’s held at an awkward...
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Who is Teaching in India's Universities?
India faces a severe shortage of teaching staff as it rapidly expands it higher education system. At such top institutions...
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My (Temporarily) Russian Soul
Soulful Russian folk songs would not have been out of place on our drive last week across the unending frozen...
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Grading Student Essays or How to Give Constructive Feedback
The topic of this blog post comes naturally to me, as I sit surrounded by over 40 essays waiting for...
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Startups
Last week I heard a story on Marketplace that struck me as helpful in understanding the chronic shortage of tenure-track...
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Lapsed Magazine Subscriptions
The most important shift brought about by the Web has been to move more of us from being consumers to...
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Snow
We've had a fair amount of snow in Backboro. Not an inordinate amount by any means (it is December, after...