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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...
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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.
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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.
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The Good Reader
Unlike many other, less famous writers, Howard Zinn treated a young editorial assistant like a person. Rachel Toor remembers him fondly.
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Countercyclical Hiring and Flight Risk
Too many of the arguments I've read and heard for hiring more full-time faculty rely on moralistic appeals. The idea...
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Having Fun in Learning Tech
Even my worst days as a learning technologist beat the crap out of my best days in most of the...
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Watching trees grow
One of the questions that Greenback students often pose about carbon dioxide emissions runs along the lines of, "well, if...
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A Dish Best Served Cold
An alumnus with a grudge wreaks havoc by requiring a college to tenure its food service workers. Lee Williams surveys the carnage.
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