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Business or Town?
Tenured Radical’s thoughtful post on elite presidential salaries got me thinking about the “run the college like a business” canard...
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Mothering at Mid-Career: Counting Down toward the end of the semester
Four. Sixteen. Eight. Thirty-two. Five. Nineteen. Six. Lately everything I do seems to have a number on it. I have...
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LinkedIn and Conference Readers
Today was the first time I used LinkedIn to develop a list of potential readers for a conference submission process...
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Ask the Administrator: Falling Behind on Grading
A new correspondent writes: What constitutes “falling behind” on grading in a college classroom and what are the consequences? It...
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My Love Affair With Academia
I bookmarked dictionary.com before noon my first day of work at the University. This wasn’t merely because of the impressive...
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'The Master Switch' is the Best Book of 2010
Ours is a vision of a transformed educational economy, one made possible by the invention of the web and the...
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Athletics on a smaller scale
I was at the last soccer match of the season and the tension level was very high. Team “Blue” had...
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Parent-Teacher Night
Parent-teacher night at my son’s school was par for the course: everyone loves him. He’s a great student in class...