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Math Geek Mom: One Final Review Day?
Grades from last semester are only a distant memory for most of us, but, as a new semester stretches out...
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Some real good news
Two items of good news for the environment, one of them potentially very significant. First, it appears that Italy has...
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Parental Reality Check
What happens when you teach the arts, the job market is terrible, and your son wants to be an arts major? Robin Gerchman considers the challenge.
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Long Distance Mom: Criticism
I ended last semester with 58 student research papers to read and grade in 10 days. 700 (digital) pages to...
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Ask the Administrator: HR as Black Hole
A new correspondent writes: What happens when a community college Human Resources department receives application materials for a job (in...
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The Transition from Solo-to-Team Course Design
One of the most important, but least remarked upon, higher ed trends over the past 10 years has been the...
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Good news, bad news, mortality and sex
A family member likes to say, referring to a single fact within a situation, "that's the good news -- it's...
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The Three Solipsisms of Tony Judt
In his short memoir, The Memory Chalet, dictated at the end of his life as he lay immobilized from motor...