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A list on the road to Damascus

Over the three-day weekend, I managed to do a little reading. One of the magazines that I actually pay money...

Mothering at Mid-Career: Academe and Parenthood -- Commenting on the Comments

I've probably spent more time than I should over this Memorial Day weekend at the IHE site, reading and re-reading...

Academe and Parenthood

Over at IHE, there's a story glossing two new studies that suggest that academics are less likely to have kids...

Toward Federal Funding of Guaranteed Student Loans

The U.S. government's new plan for keeping lenders in the loan program -- requested by lenders themselves -- resuscitates an appealing idea that they rejected a decade ago, Donald M. Feuerstein writes.

Shooting a baseline

OK, so I've got the numbers. We've completed Greenback's greenhouse gas inventory for academic years 2001 - 2007. The report...

Certainty

In a conversation with one of my department chairs this week, addressing a move we're considering making to respond to...

Drama Mama: Addicted. To Super Nanny.

Super Nanny was cancelled tonight – replaced by Lost. As if pretty, stranded people battling unknown forces could replace my...

Foul Play

Carolyn F. Segal, an English professor, and Libby Segal, her daughter and a college athlete, reflect on what it means when a team is eliminated.