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Hot Potato

A single college struggling could be a sign of management failure. Entire sectors of colleges struggling suggests something deeper.
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Global Challenges and Op-Ed Militarism, American Style

Jeremi Suri, a former colleague whom I have always respected, came out with an op-ed in the New York Times a few days ago. Suri’s piece, titled ‘Bomb North Korea, Before It’s Too Late,’ has generated a lot of discussion and debate, which was no doubt one of his objectives. But how should we ideally do this?
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How to Get Tenure (if you’re a white male on TV, anyway)

TV both gets it horribly wrong and terrifyingly right.
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Gender Inclusive Policies Required for Advancement of Women in Academia

An academic career is challenging for anyone, yet the gender gap suggests that the current system continues to favour men. There are a number of particular factors that women face and, late last year, I realised that these challenges fall into two main categories.
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Chained

A chained CPI (Consumer Price Index) sounds like a very painful condition. Or it sounds like a price index that couldn’t be controlled and is therefore forcefully restrained. Thankfully, it is neither of these situations and is instead a more realistic way of assessing cost of living increases.
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Improv Lessons

For obvious reasons, it is not possible to rehearse an improv show. However, my class had the equivalent of the dress rehearsal for our 4-show musical improv run last night, racing through three back-to-back 25-minute improvised musical comedies.
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Think Like an Administrator

Monica Jacobe explains the mindset switch that accompanies a move from faculty to administration.
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Appeasement

Professors at U of All People want to respond to Governor Broadside's higher ed bashing, but, as David Galef reports, the PR office reins them in.