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Student Affairs Associations, LinkedIn, and The Power of Professional Groups
I'm a big fan of LinkedIn. It's often my go-to social media site for professional networking, recommendations, and group discussions...
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Mothering at Mid-Career: Weekend Update, Election Edition
This weekend I paid for last weekend’s pleasures by working more than I usually do. I had papers to grade...
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Modeling the Life of the Mind
Teaching is at the heart of what I do in the humanities, both in my self-conception as “teacher-scholar” and in...
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Culture of Poverty
(Note to my readers: sorry about last week. Life intervened much more than I expected it to. Now, back to...
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Potemkin Campuses
Do you know the story of the Potemkin Villages? Russian Minister Gregory Potyomkin allegedly ordered the building of fake villages...
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Utility Poles
We don't notice infrastructure until it fails. In my case, I never noticed utility poles until I moved to a...
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Parking Revelation
In coming back to my office from a University Lecture, I cut through a main administrative parking lot. The lot...
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Cyberbullying or Institutional Overreaction?
A reader alerted me to this article in the New Haven Register because of its pertinence to the continuing discussion...