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The Climate Is in Your Head

Susan Herbst reflects on the mixed record of campus efforts to promote diversity.

Grading Student Essays or How to Give Constructive Feedback

The topic of this blog post comes naturally to me, as I sit surrounded by over 40 essays waiting for...

Startups

Last week I heard a story on Marketplace that struck me as helpful in understanding the chronic shortage of tenure-track...

Lapsed Magazine Subscriptions

The most important shift brought about by the Web has been to move more of us from being consumers to...

Snow

We've had a fair amount of snow in Backboro. Not an inordinate amount by any means (it is December, after...

Likealittle

College presidents find themselves with long lists of cares and concerns, and I was prepared for the usual list: tuition...

Threads and Spools - Where do we go from here?

This past July, I wrote a post titled " Technology needs to be more than a 'thread.'" The post generated...

We Need an Adjunct Union

It's time for a national organization, focused exclusively on collective bargaining for those off the tenure track, writes Keith Hoeller.