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Professing While Female
Where does professors’ authority in the classroom come from? On one level the answer is simple: it comes from our...
Mapping the Terrain of Online Education
Two surveys released earlier this month add detail to the map of online education in the United States. The 2010...
Undermatching
The phrase was new to me but the concept and the consequences are very familiar. William G. Bowen, in giving...
The Sick Kid Shuffle
This weekend The Girl got hit by a nasty stomach bug, so nobody got much sleep and our Sunday plans...
Thank you, Grandma and Grandpa O'Doherty
Earlier this week, a friend and I visited the Lower East Side Tenement Museum to take the “Moore Family Tour,”...
Campus and Community Violence
The university held a Town Hall Meeting on Campus Safety here last weekend, which, for better or worse, coincided with...
The potential of QR Codes
When I received a catalog from REI recently (yes, I'm in Oregon and I love REI!), the back cover had...
Advanced Study Institutes: The Top of the Top
A few of the world’s research universities have established Institutes of Advanced Study—small, usually interdisciplinary, centers that bring together scholars...