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What We Learn When Our Writing 'Fails'
How can we incentivize students to take writing risks, and give them an escape when they get in over their heads?
What An Expensive SF Restaurant That Can't Afford Waiters Tells Us About the Future of Higher Ed
Why chronic understaffing is the new normal.
How to Avoid a Federal Investigation
Kate Kennedy highlights five assumptions that universities should question themselves about in the wake of sexual abuse charges at the University of Southern California.
Networking: Just Do It
Even if up until now you haven’t done it, even if you find it insufferable, even if you think you’re awkward, even if you secretly believe that you’re somehow above it, argues Stephen J. Aguilar, do it and open yourself up to the possibilities that follow.
3 Depressing Conclusions from Reading 'Energy and Civilization' and 'Energy: A Human History’
2 indispensable books on the past, present, and future of energy.
Undoing the Can of Worms
Some faculty members do more than their fair share of department service, institutional housekeeping and student mentoring, writes KerryAnn O’Meara, who provides guidance for how to make such demands more equitable.