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Growing Up in Academia
I have friends who are well advanced in their (non-academic) careers—they are senior managers, higher-ups in government bureaucracies, established account...
Communication, not Edutainment
How do we, as tutorial leaders or professors, deal with the revelation that students find classes or entire subject areas...
Tiger Mothers and Superficial Scholars
In my role as a fellowships adviser, I have a motto: think laterally - not literally. “ Tiger mothers” as...
12 Views on Work/Life Balance
How do you balance work and life? This month's question comes from Afshan Jafar. Ana Dinescu (Berlin, Germany): It is...
Faithfulness and Personal Integrity
I remember my first class as an undergraduate: Intro to Psychology. Wide-eyed and ready to vanquish the world from psychological...
Can the Subaltern Tweet?
From the archives - this post was originally published at http://uvenus.org on 2010.06.28. I am not sure I could be...
Messy Lives
A big part of what I like about being a Registrar is bringing order to chaos. Whether it is tackling...
The Professor Has Left the Building. Thank You, and Goodnight.
Ever see this clip from Seinfeld? It captures how we all feel about telemarketers calling us at home. Now if...