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Motherhood After Tenure: our parents' stories
My daughter is at the age where she likes to hear stories about my childhood. “Tell me a story about...
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Salary Compression
In the discussion after the post about counteroffers a couple of days ago, several commenters raised the issue of salary...
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STYLES OF RADICAL WILL
Scott McLemee's recent consideration of the writer Isaac Rosenfeld in his IHE column, Intellectual Affairs, reawakens my own long fascination...
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Confounding climate
According to a paper appearing in the International Journal of Global Warming, the problem isn't greenhouse gases. To be more...
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ABC's and PhD's: Thoughts on time and change and shifting baselines
My husband and I got a babysitter a couple nights ago and we went for a walk around a popular...
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The American Graduation Initiative: First Reactions
I just got the first details on President Obama's American Graduation Initiative, his project intended to almost double the number...
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Counteroffers
I don’t do counteroffers. That’s not just a quirk of mine; my college doesn’t do them. It’s a policy I’m...
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Mothering at Mid-Career: Divided by a single language
It's a commonplace to joke about the linguistic divisions between the English and Americans. We may share a language, American...