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Research in the eating lab
There's been a thread recently on the Green Schools List about the impacts experienced by colleges and universities which have...
The Illusion of Race-Blind Admissions
Many critiques of affirmative action fail to understand how decisions are actually made, writes Julie Vultaggio.
Mothering at Mid-Career: The Balance Thing, again
A colleague, rushing out the door, popped her head into my office briefly. "You don't happen to have any secret...
Ask the Administrator: If You Could Build a System...
An Australian correspondent writes: I n Australia we're hearing about the benefits to students of being taught by Faculty who...
Think globally, AASHE regionally
OK, just one more post emanating from AASHE 2008, and then I won't mention it again. I promise. Unless I'm...
Another View of Bias
William Major writes that he can't imagine punishing or rewarding a student for political reasons. But he wonders how much grades may be determined by whether professors like or dislike students.
Ask the Administrator: Selling the New Dean on an Idea
A new correspondent writes: I'm a postdoc at a big research university. We have a confluence of events at our...
The Catharctic Half-Light -- Norman Maclean, Part Two
Norman Maclean, an Aristotelian, learned deeply what Aristotle taught: tragic art is cathartic. Toward the end of his life, he...