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Last year at this time I was beginning to see the end of my sabbatical. My colleagues had wrapped up...

I defended my dissertation — my last hurdle before graduation — two weeks before my son's due date. After the...

(Readers with pronounced visceral objections to suburbia might want to skip this post.) This weekend we went to the first...

I attended another commencement this weekend. After the ceremony, I was chatting with one of the graduates. The subject of...

In discussions with sustainability folk on other campuses, one question that often comes up is "what are you guys doing...

It’s a fearful age, and this past week a host of new frights descended on us here in the heart...

Yesterday's IHE had an article about faculty and staff morale during budget cuts. It's worth reading, but the comments are...

Tonight is graduation at Ursuline College, and I will be proud to see several of our math majors march across...