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Mothering at Mid-Career: A Narrative Compass
In graduate school my friends and I occasionally amused ourselves by imagining what our dissertation topics said about us. Female...
Appeals and Do-Overs
For reasons too sensitive to blog about, I've recently had occasion to revisit the idea of grade appeals. From this...
What You'll Be Asked
In my first essay, I discussed general guidelines for preparing for interviews for faculty jobs at community colleges. Now I...
Will Financial Crisis Starve Academic Innovation?
The recession and resulting budget cuts endanger key university and state efforts that promote economic growth, writes Roger L. Geiger.
Zombie Hunting
The popular press has been filled lately with references to zombie banks or zombie corporations, undead entities kept on life...
Career Coach: Getting Unstuck
Hello, I found you online when you responded to a student's concerns about leaving her academic schoolwork (you posed 8...
Quick
In tangential response to an earlier post, a correspondent -- keep those e-cards and e-letters coming to g (dot) rendell...
The Cycles of Biography
The more biographies I read, the more I sense the difficulties of the form. Many are patchy, uneven; the herky-jerk...