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Making It Up in Volume

There's a wonderful I Love Lucy episode in which Lucy and Ethel decide to go into the salad dressing business...
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We Need More Teachers

I'm a huge believer that as many people as possible involved in higher education should teach. Administrators should teach. Librarians...
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ABC's and PhD's: Motivation

I’m a great one for To Do lists. For me they work especially well when I’m organized enough to have...
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Long Distance Mom: International Women's Day

March 8th was International Women’s Day (IWD), which seems appropriate after watching Kathryn Bigelow make Oscar history last weekend (rock...
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How We Diversified

Two administrators at Connecticut College describe how they and their faculty colleagues changed the way professors are recruited and hired
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The American Jitters

A recent book on Depression-era culture is both lively and all too timely. Scott McLemee interviews its author.
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The Undertow

(Warning: this one's a little vent-y.) Yesterday started with one of those meetings that left me drained, precisely because it...
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Laptop Bans Are a Terrible Idea

A colleague sent me an article from The Washington Post, "Wide Web of Diversions Gets Laptops Evicted From Lecture Halls."...