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Hacking the Academic Press: or Herding Pushmi-Pullyus
The Association of American University Presses has just released a report, Sustaining Scholarly Publishing: New Business Models for University Presses...
Lessons on Health and Well-Being for Academics
My university has one of the worst health records around. In the past five years, four colleagues and two staff...
Math Geek Mom: Labor Economics
I am commonly struck with a mixture of pride, relief and fear when I hand in my column each week...
Postmodern practice
David Roberts has an interesting post on Grist, asking whether climate change denialism has roots in postmodern theory. In general...
The Wrong Approach on NCAA Rules
Toughening the association's eligibility standards for freshmen by reinstating a test score cutoff would discriminate against athletes ill-served by their high schools, writes Bradley Bethel.
Motherhood After Tenure: Dear Danya, Lisa, and Melissa, and Trina,
Dear Danya, Lisa, and Melissa, and Trina, As I reel from tonight’s events in the Wisconsin capitol, as well as...
The AV Learning Curve
A career in educational technology means days spent working with people who (hopefully) know more than you do about almost...
Strategic Naivete
In grad school, postmodernists were thick on the ground. I learned quickly that the greatest sin one could commit, in...