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I blame cats and dogs

Well, maybe not the pets themselves. Maybe more their owners. Especially when it comes to dogs, because dogs can't help the fact that for millenia they've been bred for subservience. Cats, on the other hand, might have to take the rap themselves.
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Virtual Community and Physical Space

Summer is the time when many faculty members vacate our shared campus space and retreat to home offices (or travel)...
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The 'Faculty Lounge' Problem

Election years bring political attacks on academe, writes Martin Edwards. To defend higher education requires more than just public relations.
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How It Sounds

In a conversation a few days ago, some thoughtful faculty noted in passing that the state’s constant drumbeat about job placement and STEM fields -- two different things, btw -- was becoming a factor in faculty morale in the humanities and social sciences. They heard every invocation of college-as-personnel-office as an attack on what they do, and as a harbinger of even-more-diminished resources to come.
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Good Strategy . . . and Not-So-Good Strategy

These past few months have been a bit of a reading frenzy.
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Celebrating 'The End of Money'

Currency is truly an anachronism. We continue to hold on to our paper money and our coins because - well because why?
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Opening Up the Tenure Process

Bill Wolff explains why he put all of his documents online for all to see, and why other faculty members should too.