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The True Cost of Rubber Chicken
The Fall rubber chicken circuit is in full swing again. Lots of evening events, celebrating all manner of good things...
Stuck In Adjunct Hell
A long-suffering correspondent writes: I'm an adjunct . . . everywhere. Note that I am sending this from the Ringling...
Reading Evaluations
A new correspondent -- and apparently the kind of student we'd all like to have -- writes: As a student...
Attack of the Grinch
A new correspondent writes: I am a new department chair. The staff love to decorate for any and all holidays...
The Limits of Transparency
Search Committee Chair: The job starts next semester. Can you do that? Candidate: No problem! Rarin' to go! Woo-hoo! (skip...
Just a Job
Picking up on the premodern vs. modern theme of yesterday's post, Grad School Friend (who is on the tenure track...
Plate of Shrimp
"It's like when someone says plate. And then someone says shrimp. And then someone says plate of shrimp .... It's...
Recruiting Without Paying
A returning correspondent writes: I'm just starting to think of the hiring season and, while I'm at a urban high...