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Drama Mama: Everything's Under Control
I’ve just had two weeks of faculty orientation activities and I am so tired I can’t see straight. Between the...
Expanding Student Choices in Study Abroad
In a global academic market, colleges should shed their protectionist policies on transfer of credit, writes Richard C. Sutton.
For Enervated Scholars
Our friend Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin says there are three kinds of exhaustion: “Exhaustion caused by muscular fatigue, exhaustion caused by...
MOTHERHOOD AFTER TENURE: Parenting a department
Yesterday I met with the new chair of my department to tie up loose ends, hand over some paperwork, and...
The Safety School Shuffle
With classes starting any minute now – I can see the dorsal fin in the water – the folks in...
On 'Real Education' - II
Bell Curve author Charles Murray takes direct aim at higher education in his new book Real Education by asserting that...
On 'Real Education' - I
With the enactment of a new GI Bill, the time has come to once again recall former University of Chicago...
Inside information #3 - A detour about dark
When I think about information, I usually think about it at rest. Kind of like, when I think about water...