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Yesterday evening, I was listening to NPR while I was driving, and they did a bit about a local bartering...
Ask the Administrator: Salary Haggling
A new correspondent writes: With a little luck and a lot of hard work (and a long, drawn out application...
MOTHERHOOD AFTER TENURE
This is an excerpt from the essay, "Motherhood After Tenure: Confessions of a Late Bloomer" published in Mama, PhD: Women...
Megacity, Many Questions
Our old friend Charlie Hailey, who happens to be young and brilliant, told me I should read the wonderfully-named Lars...
Ask the Administrator: Selling Assessment
A new correspondent writes: I'm interviewing for an interesting non-faculty position soon, and before I go in to the interview...
ABCs and PhDs: What next?
I've been away from teaching for four years now, since our relocation to the Vancouver area and the subsequent birth...
On the Fringe
Looking around at my fellow adjunct professors, it bothers me how many are mothers holding PhDs. I can’t help but...
Ask the Administrator: Firing Student Assistants
A regular reader writes: I'd love to hear people's advice on how to fire student assistants gracefully. Better still, I'd...