Opinion

As this goes to press, I'm engaged in ecologically responsible travel to SCUP-43, in Montreal. I'm hoping to get some...

By G. Rendell

For the sake of students, Congress should require legislatures to maintain their funding of higher education, F. King Alexander writes.

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If you’re like me, you never go anywhere without a book, since there’s too great a chance you might be...

By Oronte

If you're a full-time faculty member, and you get a courseload reduction in exchange for taking on some extra non-classroom...

By Dean Dad

Yesterday evening, I was listening to NPR while I was driving, and they did a bit about a local bartering...

By G. Rendell

Martha Kinney writes that she learned more about reaching poorly prepared students when she was in the military than in grad school.

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A new correspondent writes: With a little luck and a lot of hard work (and a long, drawn out application...

By Dean Dad

This is an excerpt from the essay, "Motherhood After Tenure: Confessions of a Late Bloomer" published in Mama, PhD: Women...

By Aeron Haynie