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Mothering at Mid-Career: on girl athletes and women professors…
Sunday's New York Times Magazine cover story by Michael Sokolove about girls with ACL injuries has me thinking. The article...
Random Glances of Exam Week
At her request, for Mother's Day I got TW a couple of little figurines that don't have facial features. TG...
The Bachelor's Degree Is Obsolete?
Why don’t we declare the bachelor’s degree obsolete? No, not education, not colleges and universities, not professors or libraries or...
Accentuate, I'm positive
Back over Xmas/New Year's, my daughter introduced me to Dracula's Riddle, which took me about a month's worth of spare...
Barack Obama and Affirmative Action
The Democratic candidate and the country may benefit if he speaks out more on his unconventional views on one of higher education's most contentious issues.
False Economies
A friend who works at a respected public research university just sent me a copy of an all-campus email he...
The Career Coach Is In: Where to Begin Looking Beyond?
This week’s letter addresses a common question of PhD students considering leaving academia – where does one even start exploring...
The Sense of College
"No one is thinking about the larger implications, let alone the morality, of admitting so many students to [university] classes...