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Don't be idle
My local paper recently printed a column by Click and Clack which included a query about whether buying a used...
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An Adjunct World
Today’s news brought word of adjunct teachers in higher education being “hidden” by their employers in order to improve U.S...
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Swine Flu and Attendance Policies
My friend Lesboprof is fighting the swine flu, which I imagine is no fun at all. Apparently, her Uni has...
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Math Geek Mom: Probabilities and Possibilities
Last week, as classes started, I performed an experiment that I always use on the first day of each of...
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Active Learning and the Scarcity Model of Grading
" I've been mentally toying with a scheme that looks like this: separate teaching from grading, then reward teaching that...
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Motherhood After Tenure: Back to work, but with a difference
This week I head back to classes after a year-long sabbatical, my daughter begins kindergarten, and my husband reduces his...
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Ask the Administrator: Thinking About Crossing Over
A returning correspondent writes: After five years, I am resigning from my tenure-track position in a humanities field. My book...
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Who Are We?
I was perusing my Chronicle of Higher Ed. Almanac this afternoon. I learned that: --About 2.6 million folks work in...