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Fear of faculty
The various tasks that fall to me as Greenback U's sustainability administrator bring me into contact with an increasingly broad...
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ABCs and PhD's: Balance or merge?
When I started my new part-time research job at the university early this fall, they got me a new computer...
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Edifice Complex
Enough with the freakin' buildings, already. Apparently, the American Council on Education (along with some other groups) is wasting no...
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Gang aft a-gley
When it comes to reducing campus greenhouse gas emissions, some of the best-intentioned changes have poor results. 'Getting sustainable' requires...
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"It's Just a Job" vs. "We're All in This Together"
Okay, I'm a little late to this party, but there's been a fascinating exchange in blogland between Tenured Radical and...
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Mothering at Mid-Career: The Art of Losing*
I keep a Word document open on my desktop most of the time. It says "IHE blog ideas," and it's...
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My Poor, Incurable, Itching Humors
“’Tis most true, [many have an incurable itch to write]…in this scribbling age,” Robert Burton wrote nearly 400 years before...
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The One Way We Still Get to Hire...
is for grant-funded positions. But hiring for grant-funded positions is different than regular hiring. Grant-funded positions exist in a parallel...