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Moneyball for Tenure? Not Until Academia Is a Team Sport
What does "winning" mean for a higher education institution?
Tonya Harding, Rodney King and Me
Is there a way to recognize the racism that produced the Rodney King beatings without ignoring the lives of people like Tonya Harding?
A Dry Story
Almost a century after Prohibition went into effect, we remember it as Puritanism run amok. Scott McLemee looks into a book taking a different view.
Skills Don’t Matter (Outside Their Context)
Colleges and universities shouldn't care about, or recognize, skills that aren't woven into a program of study that gives them meaning, Johann N. Neem argues.
Hitting the Wall
Expecting graduate students to engage in diversity work that benefits the university -- without compensation or accountability -- is inherently exploitative, argues Prabhdeep Kehal.
Chasing the Lit Mag Photo Essay, 1
Working with NYC street photographer Donato DiCamillo, San Antonio, Texas, January 2018.
Exploring Engagement - and My Inner Student
The ironies of pondering how tech platforms polarize while floundering with technology and missed deadlines.
Writing and its Hurdles: Encountering Writing as a Multilingual Graduate Student
How to navigate unclear expectations when writing as an international and/or multilingual graduate student.