Opinion

A returning correspondent writes: I teach history in the major university in my area. Every year I get 3-4 emails from high school students who want help with their papers. They often describe their topic with a phrase that sounds suspiciously like a high school essay question. High school instructors seem to feel that students are showing "initiative" by asking somebody else to do their work for them. With time, my initial sense of outrage over the laziness of students has given way to resignation.

By Dean Dad

Last weekend, I had the opportunity to be part of a panel on “performing motherhood” with other mama PhDs at the OCSLG Conference at Loyola University Chicago. Elizabeth Coffman and I discussed our writing for this blog, while Shannon LC Cate and CL Cole discussed Shannon’s writing about their family in her own blog and at BlogHer.com and Babble.com. Although all four of us are mothers with doctorates, these twin threads of our identities as mothers, writers, and academics pull at us in different ways.

By Aeron Haynie

The approaches taken by the two technology giants offer differing lessons for how colleges might re-imagine themselves going forward, writes Mark Weedman.

By Doug Lederman

I recently participated in an event on Greenback's campus where food was served to students. Food wasn't the main focus...

By G. Rendell

I had a chance to participate in a recent meeting of the Association of Research Libraries, the famous ARL. Before...

By John V. Lombardi

A regular reader writes: I teach at an open admission, 4 year college. Unlike community colleges, we actually pull our...

By Dean Dad

Last August, while selling cookies and lemonade at a stand she set up with a friend, my 12-year-old daughter met...

By Dana Campbell

Rob Weir offers advice on how professors should handle calls from reporters.

By Rob Weir