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Long Distance Mom: School for Mutants

Since my semester in Chicago has ended, I’ve been in Florida while my teenagers finish their last week of school...
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ABC's and PhD's: diverse balances

When the anthology Mama, PhD, was published in 2008, another anthology came at almost exactly the same time, called Motherhood...
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Journal 6

Walking down the block, a nice day. A bird’s entire wing lying on the sidewalk, not a feather missing from...
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Advice for Grad Students -- II

Stephen C. Stearns outlines writing issues facing those in doctoral programs.
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Full Bore

A new book looks at the history of boredom. Scott McLemee is fascinated.
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Consolidating Boards

Several alert readers sent along info that Connecticut and Rhode Island are considering streamlining their internal education governance systems, presumably...
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Amazon's Cloud Outage and 7 Emerging Campus Tech Skills

Amazon's post-mortem of its late April cloud services (AWS) outage makes for fascinating reading. As higher ed accelerates our transition...
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On Mothers and Tigers

Usually, I avoid reading and writing about star books as much as possible. As in the case of various pop...