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New Thinking on Wikipedia: Not Evil

Have you had the experience recently of your physician turning her computer screen toward you and googling something she needs...

In Which I Realize That We're Doing It Wrong

I've been slapping myself on the forehead all week, so I figured it would be safer to stop slapping and...

Motherhood After Tenure: the Teacher as Student

This week’s Chronicle of Higher Education contains an essay by Roger H. Martin, a former college president who spent a...

Craven courage

So ... "climate disruption", you say? I think I like it! Meanwhile ... Right after my clock radio switched itself...

ABCs and PhDs: Small Bites

My baby started kindergarten last week. Well, she’s actually five, and very ready for kindergarten, but she’s my youngest. I’ve...

Moving Beyond the 'Big 3'

It’s a brave new world for tenure-track faculty members, graduate students, and postdocs these days. New and aspiring professors enter...

Ask the Administrator: Gifts from Students

A longtime reader writes: One of my students from last year came in today and gave me a t-shirt that...

Charles Murray on Elites

As we wait for the next water to break on the Palin story, it's worth recalling that one of the...