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Last week, IHE had a story about a conference dedicated to addressing the relatively low rate of college attendance by...
A recommendation and a reminder
Although it's only tangentially related to the topic of sustainability (and even that only if your mind runs in the...
Lessons Learned, Now That It's Over
On a personal note: My students this semester knew I was writing about my experience teaching while serving as a...
Learning Not to Answer
I've had variations on this conversation several times recently. Professor: There's option A and option B, and I guess technically...
Dancing With Widow X
In my previous post I used a recalcitrant subject in an ethnography study, Widow X, as a symbol of all...
Not that I'm biased, but ...
Events like commencements tend to connect me to family members I haven't seen in a while. In this case, an...
Fun with Cognitive Dissonance
Both of these stories make sense on their own terms. But taken together, they neatly capture the basic dilemma in...
The Long Look Back
Russell Olwell considers the process and benefits of applying to become a full professor.