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Requiem for a Heavyweight
The late Richard Rorty was a pragmatist philosopher and a generous soul. Scott McLemee looks back....
Best. Readers. Ever.
A while back I posted a question from someone going for a department chair position. Check out the message she...
Counting Backwards
There's a thought-provoking post over at Lesboprof's about career goals, timing, and the importance (and shock!) of counting backwards. It's...
The Perpetuation of Privilege
When enormously wealthy individuals give millions to enormously wealthy universities, it's time to stop calling it philanthropy, writes Walter M. Kimbrough.
What Jim Knows
We finished reading for the AP exam in Louisville on Saturday, and I’m home now. But before I left, I...
Ask the Administrator: Interview Etiquette
Weirdly for this time of year, I've been getting a lot of questions about job interview etiquette. Excerpts from two...
Saving 30 Years
Terry Caesar considers networks, knowing the "right people," and prestige real and imagined.
How Greek Universities Stay That Way
Europe's worst university system -- and that's saying a lot -- has done it again. Ten senior academics at Panteion...