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Between the Dog and the Fire Hydrant
Someone I respect asked recently why administrators s/he otherwise likes and respects occasionally make horrible, offensive decisions. Why would an...
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Professor
Professor is an odd thing. Students call out "Professor!" in the hall, and sometimes they mean me. Professor Soltan. Yet...
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Sustainability's Third Circle
Around 1952, the brown treesnake ( Boiga irregularis) arrived on Guam from somewhere in the South Pacific, presumably as an...
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Ask the Administrator: Transferring
A new correspondent writes: I read your blog everyday. I go to a suny cc (I graduate in June) and...
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Becoming American
For society to thrive, universities can -- must -- introduce their students to the perennial questions and issues that define democratic theory and practice, writes Thomas Lindsay.
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Do more, do less
OK, so the blog has been on hiatus for a few days. I haven't. Quite the opposite. Since the weekend...
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Education by Earthquake
When I was very little, my mom took me down to the Mississippi to see a river barge that had...