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Motherhood After Tenure: the Sabbatical Begins
This is the second week of my sabbatical and already I have a sinking feeling that I’m not accomplishing enough...
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ABCs and PhDs: Saving Our Woods
The patch of woods outside my front door is in trouble. After we moved into our neighborhood four years ago...
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Prospero's Island?
We reached the island on the morning of Labor Day, as the last of the vacationers were closing up their...
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Ask the Administrator: Starting Over
A new correspondent writes: I have a question about college teaching as a second career. Most of the advice I've...
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Hang On to Your Hat (Just in Case)
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN will fire up Wednesday morning, though “it might take a month or two to...
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Just chill out!
Another campus sustainability competition is underway, and this one has a video feed. Actually, it's not "another" competition -- it's...
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It's Not Programmed Into Our Cells
Like many professors, I have a policy about cell phones in my classroom. I struggle with this policy every semester...
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Administrivia
I've seen two major personality types fail at deaning, each for the same reason: administrivia. Administrivia is the barrage of...