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The Roving Reporter Strikes Again
This weekend I'm firing up the hatchback and heading to scenic Philadelphia to check out (and blog) the American Association...
Pseudonymity and Authenticity
Dr. Crazy has a terrific post about the differences between pseudonymity and anonymity. To oversimplify, pseudonymity attaches a persona to...
Ask the Administrator: They're Spying on Us!
A frustrated correspondent writes: I work in a service department. Another department, which is a large client of ours, has...
Signs
At dinner last night with The Wife, The Boy, and The Girl: TW: How was CCD today? TB: Good. TW...
Ask the Administrator: What About Teaching High School?
A longtime reader writes: I'll be starting a Ph.D. program in History in the Fall. I know the risks, and...
Transparency and Reciprocity
Tim Burke and Chad Orzel have recently posted some helpful thoughts on tenure and its assumptions. This paragraph of Chad's...
How Not to Conduct a Presidential Search
An alert reader sent me a link to these articles in the Rochester (NY) Democrat and Chronicle, detailing the goings-on...
National Service
Every election year, we start to get proposals for various national service programs as ways to pay for college. The...