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The Racial Politics of Citation
The lack of citations of scholars of color furthers racial dominance and forecloses potentially valuable avenues of intellectual inquiry, argues Victor Ray.
The Distraction Attraction
A lesson in Ethan Tussey’s The Procrastination Economy: The Big Business of Downtime is that a large, voracious and profitable cultural apparatus is absorbing and monetizing every second of your attention, writes Scott McLemee.
Subverting That End-of-Semester Exhaustion
Some experiments for creating schedules that may lessen the physical and emotional exhaustion so common at the end of the spring semester.
Friday Fragments
Free faculty labor; the disappearing middle class; Captain Kirk; more.
Learning Innovation Is Evolving Into an Academic Discipline
An unconference elevator pitch.
This Elevator Called Life
Marking the floors between what you should do and what you want to in graduate schoo.
Walking Around a Problem
In their haste to deal with a problem quickly, deans shouldn't forget the importance of examining it from many different angles, write Carolyn R. Hodges and Olga M. Welch.
Inadvertently Touched by Scandal
Masha Fedzechkina speaks out on behalf of those scholars who have happened to work with those accused of sexual harassment.