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One of the mantras of the sustainability movement is "reduce, reuse, recycle." The three options are stated in order of...

There's a provocative piece in yesterday's IHE about a study on per-student spending at various levels of higher ed, and...

Only yesterday did I hear of the death, last September, of Professor Emeritus James J. McNiece, Jr., of Northern Illinois...

Let's say you live some distance from campus, not near any other employees who work a schedule similar to yours...

A new correspondent writes: I've been a faithful reader for a while now ... an issue has been brought to...

My brother -- who sometimes comments as "brother of dean dad" -- sent me an email yesterday about rhetorical moves...

I'm currently putting the final numbers together for Greenback's greenhouse gas inventory. As on a lot of campuses, the last...

One of the more interesting features of the current enthusiasm for discussing college costs and the elaborate mechanisms to discount...