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I've never found an elegant way around the add/drop period. This is the time of the semester when late-adding students...
Motherhood After Tenure: the Sabbatical Begins
This is the second week of my sabbatical and already I have a sinking feeling that I’m not accomplishing enough...
ABCs and PhDs: Saving Our Woods
The patch of woods outside my front door is in trouble. After we moved into our neighborhood four years ago...
Prospero's Island?
We reached the island on the morning of Labor Day, as the last of the vacationers were closing up their...
Ask the Administrator: Starting Over
A new correspondent writes: I have a question about college teaching as a second career. Most of the advice I've...
Hang On to Your Hat (Just in Case)
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN will fire up Wednesday morning, though “it might take a month or two to...
Just chill out!
Another campus sustainability competition is underway, and this one has a video feed. Actually, it's not "another" competition -- it's...
It's Not Programmed Into Our Cells
Like many professors, I have a policy about cell phones in my classroom. I struggle with this policy every semester...