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Cleaner Air, Cooler Planet
Doing a greenhouse gas inventory for a college or university involves crunching a lot of numbers. Activities which generate emissions...
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Motherhood After Tenure: Domestic Duties
Tomorrow is my best friend’s birthday and I’ve decided to give her an unusual present: I’m paying to have her...
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Training Young Voters
Last week, The Wife decided that it was time to teach The Boy and The Girl about voting. She converted...
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ABC's and PhD's: Gender equity in academic science?
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is a law that states: “No person in the United States shall...
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Bad news/good news
First, the bad news. (And I guess the bad news could be good news, if you look at it a...
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Second-Year Scholarships and Subsidized Slacking
Okay, I'll admit to being a sucker for certain kinds of ideas: they're usually 'what ifs' that involve upending a...
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Is This How Historians Feel All the Time?
Teachers, who age while the students in their classes do not, are big on noting time’s passage. Most often this...
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Ask the Administrator: An Interview Curveball
A new correspondent writes: I'm currently an adjunct ESL teacher, and I just interviewed for a full-time position in my...