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Release Time and Double Dipping
If you're a full-time faculty member, and you get a courseload reduction in exchange for taking on some extra non-classroom...
Local medium
Yesterday evening, I was listening to NPR while I was driving, and they did a bit about a local bartering...
What the Army Taught Me About Teaching
Martha Kinney writes that she learned more about reaching poorly prepared students when she was in the military than in grad school.
Ask the Administrator: Salary Haggling
A new correspondent writes: With a little luck and a lot of hard work (and a long, drawn out application...
MOTHERHOOD AFTER TENURE
This is an excerpt from the essay, "Motherhood After Tenure: Confessions of a Late Bloomer" published in Mama, PhD: Women...
Megacity, Many Questions
Our old friend Charlie Hailey, who happens to be young and brilliant, told me I should read the wonderfully-named Lars...
Ask the Administrator: Selling Assessment
A new correspondent writes: I'm interviewing for an interesting non-faculty position soon, and before I go in to the interview...
It's All Geek to Me
We have, by contemporary standards, a mixed marriage, for I am a nerd, while my wife is a geek. A...