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Battles You Don't Want to Fight
A savvy admin will pick battles carefully. I've seen too many cases of "you're right, but you're wrong to bring...
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Age and Innovation
I come from an academic family. My Dad, George Masnick, has had a long career as a demographer at Harvard...
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Mothering at Mid-Career: End of Semester Bullets and Questions
Mothering at Mid-Career: End of Semester Bullets and Questions --What happened to Thanksgiving? We had a houseful — which is...
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Sometimes I scare even myself
When I hollered "The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!", I thought I was joking. Honest. Now, according to...
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Pick Up the Bags and Get in the Limousine
It’s time again in the academic year for reflecting on pressures that have held sway for months and, if you...
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Make it Look Planned
I need a word that falls between 'serendipity' and 'strategy.' (And no, I won't use 'strategery.') A few weeks ago...
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Hulu and Higher Ed
Spent a few hours this week in the San Diego airport waiting for my red-eye flight back East. Had a...
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The Last Laugh
Our family spent the Thanksgiving break in Dublin. I thought about the discussions here while on a tour of Trinity...