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A critical decision
It’s funny, how sometimes the best way to understand big issues in big, complex, institutional contexts is to solve little...
Ask the Administrator: Upper Level Pay for Upper Level Course?
A befuddled correspondent writes: I'm an adjunct with a Ph.D. and plenty of upper level experience via a former full-time...
First things first
Sustainability’s a huge topic. And higher education is an industrial sector not renowned for the agility of its participants. So...
NIU
I was watching the BBC yesterday afternoon when they cut in with breaking news of the shootings at Northern Illinois...
Northern Illinois University
Every parent's nightmare happened again, this time at NIU. My condolences to the students, faculty, and families there. It's scary...
Ask the Administrator: You've Got to be Kidding...
A regular reader writes: A probationary faculty member in my college plagiarized his entire statement of teaching philosophy in his...
Sixties Leavings
Evidence of UD's still-throbbing 'sixties sensibility. A list that will be added to as UD thinks of more stuff. 1.]...
Fields for study
A column by a British (sometime-) academic may point the way toward research opportunities for American universities. George Monbiot has...