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Motherhood After Tenure: teaching in dark times
Monday our semester begins and I’m struck once again by how fortunate I am to begin again, to start over...
Putting the Ph.D.'s to Work
Even old news can be dismal, and that is the case at hand. For about 40 years, by my calculation...
Guest Book Review: Wall in My Head
The Wall in My Head : Words and Images from the Fall of the Iron Curtain. Eds. Rohan Kamicheril and...
Ask the Administrator: PhD's at CC's
A new correspondent writes: I read your blog posting about the reasons people went/go to graduate school in the humanities...
7 Reasons and 7 Ideas About 7 Things
The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative's (ELI's) 7 Things You Should Know About series is one of my favorite monthly publications. Recent...
States and schools and sustainability
As I drove to campus this morning, my local NPR station was talking about only three subjects -- Haiti, the...
A walk in the woods
On our recent New Year’s trip to Friday Harbor, Washington, my eight-year old had the chance to reconnect with one...
Lessons of an Academic Vagabond
Having worked at five different colleges, Melissa Nicolas writes that there are commonalities every tenure-track faculty member needs to remember.