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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.

A Miscellany of Things Related to Previous Things

As you read this, I’m on the road with Crazy Larry, headed for Louisville, Kentucky, and Abbey Road on the...

Math Mom: TMI

On a recent Saturday, right in the middle of our weekly cleaning spree, an acquaintance called to invite my eight-year-old...

Demise of a Good Idea

College lobbyists cited privacy issues to kill off "unit records," writes Kevin Carey, even as they use a similar system for their own purposes.

Compromise and Precedent

Money shortages create all manner of frictions. Say you have a large group that believes, with varying levels of truth...

NEW FORCES IN THE SOUL

Let me combine two university-related subjects I've been promising to write about -- online courses, which I've called the poor...

What David Bowen Knows

As I wrote in a couple of earlier posts ( here and here), I’ve long had an interest in independent...

ABCs and PhDs: It's the Journey not the Destination

Each year some 57,000 newly awarded PhD’s enter the job market – way too many for all to find positions...