Mama PhD

I learned a few days ago that one of my high school teachers, Otis Benson Davis, died last week. O.B...

I was moved by a number of the responses to last week’s column. I find it really helpful when people...

If you try to divide 365 by 7, it does not come out evenly. 364, however, does divide evenly, meaning...

Halloween has never been my favorite holiday, despite my love of chocolate. As a reserved introvert I’ve always dreaded costume...

Last week, for Inside Higher Ed, Scott McLemee reviewed a three-day event held at the University of Iowa called “Platforms...

-- Joann Lipman notes in the New York Times that women's advances in the work force seem to have stalled...

In this week’s Chronicle, Mary Ann Mason discusses reasons why relatively few students, especially women, opt to have children during...

When my daughter was barely five years old, I told her the phone number of someone we knew, a number...