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Math Geek Mom: Iconoclasts in April
Once, when I was in high school, I must have said something that particularly exasperated one of my teachers. She...
Ask the Administrator: Interview for First Administrative Job
A new correspondent writes: I am a faculty member in the humanities at a small comprehensive college, and I may...
Pride in One's Work
Throughout my 31 years in higher education, from assistant to full professor at three universities — Oklahoma State, Ohio and...
Motherhood After Tenure: Talking Balance
Last week a colleague and I gave a talk to new faculty on work-life balance. It is part of series...
Book Publishers' Regrets in 2025
In 2025, when book publishers look back to try to understand why their business became first disintermediated and then displaced...
An inconvenient inventory
Greenback U, like a lot of other schools I'm sure, is in for a rude awakening. Under terms of the...
Recovering Administrator
Terri Givens, back in the faculty ranks, considers what she learned and why (when the time is right) she may go back.
Auto-da-Fé
Seven years ago, Iraq's libraries went up in smoke. Scott McLemee looks at a history of book destruction.