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Cary Nelson, Provocateur

Well, that post title was a little redundant, don’t you think? For my readers not in academe, Cary Nelson is...

Mothering at Mid-Career: Trying to stay positive

Last Monday I wrote my blog post during a snow day; today it’s 80F and sunny, and I’m on spring...

The Litany

For some reason, there's a persistent subset of people – both faculty and staff – who can't raise one issue...

The best article on sustainability that I've read recently ...

... isn't technically about sustainability. It's about food. Or, more technically, our agricultural system. It's here. You should go read...

Grow Your Own

This article from the Chronicle, about spousal hiring, and this one from IHE, about administrative searches in a recession, are...

The Disturbing Room

There must be a newly-minted Ph.D. out there, diss unpublishable, who’d like to write a book for a general audience...

Pre-Emptive Layoffs

An alert reader sent me the link to this article from the Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Apparently, the University of Massachusetts...

Math Geek Mom: Is More Always Better?

We live in a great neighborhood where many people decorate their homes for Christmas with fancy lights that draw people...