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Some Meetings Are Actually Useful...
As the year has become progressively more surreal, I've been finding much more value in the occasional meetings I have...
AWP: Final
Look, I’m not a conference guy. I’m a walk in the woods guy, an afternoon tea guy, a thicken-the-stew-with-flour, homebody-underwater-Emily-Dickinson-multipledraft-Boston-Fern-natural-light-kids-on-the-lap...
Math Geek Mom: Finding a Voice
When I was in high school in the late 1970s, I was very good at doing well in my classes...
Process and Word Problems
Academic administrators aren't the only administrators on a campus. We routinely interact with the folks who run the business side...
Error and Failure
Yesterday's IHE has a worthwhile story about 'reverse transfers' – students starting at four-year colleges and then transferring to cc's...
Long Distance Mom: Lincoln and Darwin Turn 200
Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were both born on Feb. 12th, 1809. Why is celebrating their birthdays important? Why should...
Eat less carbon
I was speaking recently with a representative of Greenback U's dining services. My intent (predictably) was to move them towards...
ABCs and PhDs: Personal experiments
In my last semester as a graduate student, I TA’ed a human behavioral biology course. As it turned out, I...