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Of Teaching Melville on 9/12
The fall semester was only two weeks old, and we’d already worked through Irving, Hawthorne, and Poe. But my students...
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Thoughts on San Antonio
This story in IHE is somehow both shocking and unsurprising. Apparently, San Antonio College has a policy stating that anybody...
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Comparing apples to air compressors
Much of my life, this week, is focused on finalizing Greenback U's greenhouse gas inventory as it's going to be...
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Class Shopping
I've never found an elegant way around the add/drop period. This is the time of the semester when late-adding students...
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Motherhood After Tenure: the Sabbatical Begins
This is the second week of my sabbatical and already I have a sinking feeling that I’m not accomplishing enough...
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ABCs and PhDs: Saving Our Woods
The patch of woods outside my front door is in trouble. After we moved into our neighborhood four years ago...
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Ask the Administrator: Starting Over
A new correspondent writes: I have a question about college teaching as a second career. Most of the advice I've...
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Hang On to Your Hat (Just in Case)
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN will fire up Wednesday morning, though “it might take a month or two to...