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Mothering at Mid-Career: On Rubrics and Spreadsheets (sort of)
I spent the day with rubrics and spreadsheets. This is not exactly the life I envisioned when I began my...
Ask the Administrator: Interviewing Your Next Boss
A bufuddled correspondent writes: We are in the process of interviewing for a new program director. I am a staff...
What's wrong with this picture??
Earth Day 40 came and went. I was at an event on campus, which was being held in a tent...
Ask the Administrator: The Paradox of Good Citizenship
A thoughtful correspondent writes: I'm in a humanities dept. at a very good SLAC. One of our faculty members is...
Every department should be a history department
Recently I was asked to sit for an oral history interview covering my years at Hofstra. Since my years at...
BARBIE, PhD?
Ann Zimmerman reports in The Wall Street Journal that, thanks in large part to a viral campaign by female computer...
Epic Fail
What should a college do when a professor fails 90 percent of the students in an intro class? Apparently, at...
Favorite Literary Films
There’s an academic family around these parts, it’s said, who watch all the Jane Austen films together every Thanksgiving break...