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The Tempest, Act 3
Two weeks ago we went to see The Tempest at the University of Illinois’ Krannert Center f or the Performing...
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Ask My Readers: Grad School Admissions
An assiduous undergraduate correspondent writes: Is it actually encouraged to email prospective advisors at the schools to which you will...
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Cheap Thrill
It's always a cheap thrill when psychiatrists - especially academic psychiatrists - turn out to be infantile, ridiculous people. An...
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Faking It, With 2 Books and More
Terry Caesar considers the assumptions academics make about fellow academics -- many times based on a less than complete reality.
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Bad Job, but Not Malpractice
Sherman Dorn has a thoughtful post up about the difficulties institutions have in dealing with faculty instructional practices that aren't...
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Charity and Sustainability
I don't usually do followup posts, but this topic seems to need one. In higher ed, there's no such thing...
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To the Things Themselves
Sometimes bric-a-brac has meaning. Scott McLemee interviews an interpreter.
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Scathing Online Schoolmarm
This post's subtitle rewrites something Hamlet said: How all occasions do inform against me... Prose discloses. However much you think...