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Becoming Susan Sontag
An author's diaries are where the will to write is forged. Scott McLemee sneaks a guilty peek.
Edifice Complex
Enough with the freakin' buildings, already. Apparently, the American Council on Education (along with some other groups) is wasting no...
Gang aft a-gley
When it comes to reducing campus greenhouse gas emissions, some of the best-intentioned changes have poor results. 'Getting sustainable' requires...
Sighing in Cyberspace
Maria Shine Stewart reflects on her experiences -- including a little trauma -- on her personal flight with technology.
"It's Just a Job" vs. "We're All in This Together"
Okay, I'm a little late to this party, but there's been a fascinating exchange in blogland between Tenured Radical and...
Mothering at Mid-Career: The Art of Losing*
I keep a Word document open on my desktop most of the time. It says "IHE blog ideas," and it's...
My Poor, Incurable, Itching Humors
“’Tis most true, [many have an incurable itch to write]…in this scribbling age,” Robert Burton wrote nearly 400 years before...
The Propaganda of International Comparisons
Reports misusing data on other countries’ populations and performance to show the failures of U.S. higher education also miss the ways those countries are really ahead of us, writes Clifford Adelman.