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The Veterans Are Coming! The Veterans Are Coming!
Edward F. Palm, as a Vietnam vet and community college dean, offers some advice on what to say and do -- and what not to say and do.
Perversely Enough, We're Upscaling
In conversation this week with someone who works in the 'student life' side of the college, I heard something I...
Thinking Outside the Quad
Finding too little time to research and write, Paul Youngquist concocts a timely solution for what to do with those pesky undergraduates.
Motherhood After Tenure: Anxiety
When I was a girl, I took a trip to visit my grandparents in Florida. Leaving Buffalo, NY in November...
Foot-Dragging and Network Externalities
My college, like most, is struggling with ways to communicate. In this context, I don't mean that in the substantive...
... or what's a meta phor?
Sometimes, life hands you a metaphor which is just absolutely perfect. I think that's the case with the current meltdown...
Brevity Is A Virtue
I have something in the new issue of Brevity, the premiere online journal of concise literary nonfiction, if you're interested...
D.F.W., R.I.P.
The late David Foster Wallace didn't settle for satire. Scott McLemee says farewell to a wild talent.