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First Thoughts on "Frontline"
Last night "Frontline" did a show on for-profit higher education. It was a disappointing episode in many ways. First, and...
With Curriculum, the Medium is the Message
Three predictions about how changes in the curricular mediums will alter the learning process. Prediction 1: Curricular content will be...
Ask the Administrator: Hiring Without Searching
A cagey correspondent writes: A former colleague of my husband (at another college) tells my husband that she was just...
Mothering at Mid-Career: Juggling
It feels like it's been a while since I wrote anything about being a parent in this space. It's been...
Technology and Grading Experiments
I don't want to push my opinion too much about Cathy Davidson's grading experiments at Duke. Not that I don't...
Not Babylon 5
I don't want to think about the crude oil currently spewing into the Gulf of Mexico. I'd much rather think...
Dress like a dean/provost
After about a year of serving as Assistant Provost, the Provost called me in and indicated that he was more...
'It's a catastrophe. Relax!'
So Nobel laureate Michael Beard assures us all of the the inevitability and consequences of global warming, in Ian McEwan's...