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Moving Beyond the 'Big 3'
It’s a brave new world for tenure-track faculty members, graduate students, and postdocs these days. New and aspiring professors enter...
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Ask the Administrator: Gifts from Students
A longtime reader writes: One of my students from last year came in today and gave me a t-shirt that...
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Charles Murray on Elites
As we wait for the next water to break on the Palin story, it's worth recalling that one of the...
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Why Assistant Professors Should Earn More Than the Tenured
Doing so might bruise the egos of senior professors. But a college could increase the quality of its faculty by giving relatively higher salaries to junior professors, James D. Miller writes.
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The Dropoff
Although community colleges have a more age-diverse student population than most of the rest of higher ed, the average age...
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Mothering at Mid-Career: Training Day
Only two weeks ago I confidently announced that " it's not a race," that I'd be able to keep my...
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ROTC BBQ
Saw a flyer yesterday on a bulletin board in the English Building: CHECK US OUT THIS THURSDAY!!!FREE FOOD!BAGS!M16 SIMULATOR!AND MORE...
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Drama Mama: Hurrah for the IT department!
Hurrah for the IT department! I never thought I would say that about any IT department anywhere. Don’t get me...