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Getting wind of it
Not too long ago, I posted about how it's easier to defeat information-based change than to achieve it, particularly if...
Local Food and Fiction
The indomitable Professor Cohen writes in response to my most recent post about creative nonfiction and food: Okay, so I'm...
Ask the Administrator: The Book or the Grant?
A new correspondent in a humanistic discipline writes: I'm now three semesters into a permanent position at a lower-mid-range research...
Math Geek Mom: How to Li[v]e with Statistics
There is a commercial for some over the counter medicine that talks about “Dr. Mom.” Already being “Dr. Mom”, in...
Conservation or efficiency?
I was in the dentist's office, waiting to get my teeth cleaned. The remarkable thing about this situation was that...
Budget Crises, Academic Change: A Fable
Our fable begins with the recognition that everyone is in favor of change, that magic word for all of higher...
Long Distance Mom: Job Hunting? Considering a Commute?
Well, it is interviewing time and, for many of us, it means that we have moved beyond the phone interview...
When Professors Vanish
This is one of the parts of the job for which you're never really trained. Every so often, usually around...