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Northern Illinois University
Every parent's nightmare happened again, this time at NIU. My condolences to the students, faculty, and families there. It's scary...
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Valentine's Day Truths About Shakespeare
Valentine's Day. Time to pull out your Shakespeare's Sonnets, choose one to type up in a fancy font for that...
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Ask the Administrator: You've Got to be Kidding...
A regular reader writes: A probationary faculty member in my college plagiarized his entire statement of teaching philosophy in his...
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Sixties Leavings
Evidence of UD's still-throbbing 'sixties sensibility. A list that will be added to as UD thinks of more stuff. 1.]...
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Fields for study
A column by a British (sometime-) academic may point the way toward research opportunities for American universities. George Monbiot has...
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Objection!
There is more to Richard Posner's book on public intellectuals than the Top 100 list. Scott McLemee revisits it....
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Thoughts on the Fifth Estate
Oso Raro has a thought-provoking, if maddening, piece up - check it out - on the changing role of the...
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Learning to Raise Money -- as an Academic Administrator
Michael Bugeja recalls how he learned development and offers tips for those who didn't expect that to be part of their careers.