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ABC's and PhD's: Damage Control

A flood has forced me to reckon with my past. As floods go it was minor and certainly no major...
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The Not So Usual Suspects

Hiring workers from the corporate world to work in admissions, registrars’ and other offices requires managers and employees alike to think differently, writes Chuck Hurley.
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Every Fury on Earth

John Summers' work has shed light on C. Wright Mills and other anarchists. In an interview, Scott McLemee shines a light on Summers himself ...
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Why I Don't Envy Colleagues at Four-Year Colleges

I'm beginning to think that anytime I'm stuck for an idea, I should just read Tim Burke. This piece on...
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Tibetan Book of the Adjunct

Little-known until now, the Tibetan Book of the Adjunct: Liberation Through Understanding in the Between provides spiritual guidance to those...
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Incentivizing Failure: AIG and the Academy

Academics who tsk-tsk at the perverse rewards that spurred the financial crisis, Christoph Knoess says, shouldn't act smug; the faculty rewards structure itself is flawed and destructive.
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Mothering at Mid-Career: Reading Aloud

I read aloud in my classes a lot. In children’s lit, I explain that I want my students to experience...
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Getting It Right

If I could give a single piece of advice to the new administrators out there, it would be to pay...