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Mothering at Mid-Career: The Art of Losing*
I keep a Word document open on my desktop most of the time. It says "IHE blog ideas," and it's...
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My Poor, Incurable, Itching Humors
“’Tis most true, [many have an incurable itch to write]…in this scribbling age,” Robert Burton wrote nearly 400 years before...
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The Propaganda of International Comparisons
Reports misusing data on other countries’ populations and performance to show the failures of U.S. higher education also miss the ways those countries are really ahead of us, writes Clifford Adelman.
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The One Way We Still Get to Hire...
is for grant-funded positions. But hiring for grant-funded positions is different than regular hiring. Grant-funded positions exist in a parallel...
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One finger on Arrakis
When I was a lad, I read a piece in a magazine, a book, I don't remember where. It talked...
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These items just in
Three recent events of which to take note. Each of them signals a step in the right direction, so be...
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Myles Brand's Code of Silence
Myles Brand, president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, has been embarking lately on a peculiar public relations campaign. With...
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Math Geek Mom: Another Option
Last week was the anniversary of the legal hearing that made our daughter’s adoption official. And so, as much of...