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Ask the Administrator: Charging Search Committees
A left coast correspondent writes: What constraints do people serving on hiring committees work under? In an attempt to make...
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Beyond modernity
I'm about two-thirds of the way through Beyond the Modern University, by Marcus Peter Ford. It's a slim volume, but...
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ABCs and PhDs: Non-Traditional Academics - "NTAs", not "SAHMs"
We do not want to enter the typical stay-at-home mom vs. working mom battle – rather we believe that there...
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A Minor-League Baseball Game, Through the Eyes of Three Seven Year Olds
When do we get snacks? Now? Now? Stand up? Aw, man... I can do an armpit fart. Watch! Oh, yeah...
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One possible future
Vance Fried's proposal for a "$7,376 Ivy" isn't intended to be about sustainability, unless we're talking about the sustainability of...
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Towards Helhaven
Was the new Pixar film "WALL-E" inspired by an American cultural theorist? Scott McLemee goes over the moon to find out.
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Planning to plan to plan
Greenback U. is, in the terminology of those who think and write analytically about such things, a "multiversity." It's a...
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Better-Than-Ivy Education: $7,376 a Year
Many American students and parents thirst for colleges focused on “value.” Vance Fried offers a new model.