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On Serving as President and Provost ... at the Same Time

Having both positions gives Susan Herbst new ideas about their roles and their relationship.
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Another Sign of the Apocalypse

One of the drawbacks of writing with a pen name is the restriction it places on topics. I can’t tell...
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Taxing the Sports Factory

Since at least the early 20th century, it has been fashionable to attack college athletics as distorting the priorities of...
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Ginsberg Again

Brown University student, 2007: '...so as to end up flaccid, immobile , alone on the carpet of a dorm room...
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Looking the Part

There's an eyebrow-raising discussion over at New Kid's, in response to a first person piece in the Chronicle. I didn't...
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I Was a Progression Requirement Pusher

Todd A. Diacon comes clean on a practice that many colleges accept without question, but that he writes is more about convenience than about education.
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Behold, A Black Horse

Yep, just as Revelation predicted, on the heels of war comes famine—the strange self-chosen famine of the overfed society—announced by...
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Ask the Administrator: ABD Seeks JOB

A returning correspondent writes: I am in the midst of completing my dissertation,wrestling with 250 pages of text at the...