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It's always a cheap thrill when psychiatrists - especially academic psychiatrists - turn out to be infantile, ridiculous people. An...

Sherman Dorn has a thoughtful post up about the difficulties institutions have in dealing with faculty instructional practices that aren't...

I don't usually do followup posts, but this topic seems to need one. In higher ed, there's no such thing...

This post's subtitle rewrites something Hamlet said: How all occasions do inform against me... Prose discloses. However much you think...

A long-suffering correspondent writes: My SLAC employer conducts an annual United Way fundraising drive. Earlier this fall, a letter was...

What are the odds? There was actually a staggeringly brilliant piece in the New York Times yesterday! (The piece is...

I’m in Chicago, since Crazy Larry finally got me a comp ticket to the play he’s in. It’s a good...

A former cc administrator -- who is not me -- did a piece in the Chronicle about deans and chairs...