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Long Distance Mom: Twilight, Seventeen and Possibly in Michigan
I have vague memories of reading Seventeen magazine upstairs in my attic bedroom, alone and sequestered from my parents. Even...
It's Official
I’m the best teacher who ever lived. Anyway I think that’s what the Provost said in the letter she sent...
ABCs and PhDs: Meeting expectations?
Recently I received a phone call out of the blue from a long-time family friend, a graduate student my parents...
The Moviegoer
Whatever happened to cinephilia? Scott McLemee loses it at the movies....
Getting Started in a Lab
New graduate students need to ask the right questions to pick the best place to work and launch their careers, writes Tom Daniel.
Happy hypocrisy
Promoting sustainability at Greenback U. brings me into constant contact with both students and faculty. Each group has what I...
Reserves
The story in the Chronicle yesterday about California paying its community colleges in IOU's got me thinking about reserves, and...
Meshing Speechwriting and Budget Making
President Obama's speech last week made good on his campaign promise to elevate higher eduation's domestic priority, writes Art Hauptman. But are his budget proposals adequate to meet the lofty goals he has now established?