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Motherhood after tenure: evaluation time
We received our fall semester course evaluations on the first day of the spring semester. The timing seems akin to...
Course Evaluations, Years Later
Professors may get much better feedback by waiting a while -- and then asking students to reflect on what stayed with them, writes Tom Deans.
Are Green Jobs the New Metric System?
A few years ago I mentioned my bewilderment at why the failure of the push to adopt the metric system...
In praise of Gordon Gekko
Today, I got lucky. It's usually better to be lucky than good (a poker player told me that one). It's...
Mashing not Viewing
Is the debate we are having about copyright and online streaming of course video (behind a password through the LMS)...
ABCs and PhD's: The five-year plan
When I was pregnant with my daughter and unsure what was going to happen to my academic career, a woman...
In the American Grain
Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, died last week. Scott McLemee salutes a voice of dissent.
A Road Less Traveled
Michael Benson considers lessons of path that led him from a doctorate in Middle Eastern history to a job roofing houses to fund raising and to college presidencies.