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Ask the Administrator: The Etiquette of Postmortems
A regular correspondent whose chief academic officer abruptly stepped down writes: When we start looking for a new academic dean...
Math Geek Mom: More on Maternity Leaves
Several weeks ago, I asked my readers to share their maternity leave stories with me, as I work to propose...
Audiobooks, E-readers and Accessibility
Three cheers for the educators at Syracuse and UW Madison for refusing to purchase new Kindle's until the speech-to-text feature...
Time and space
During the academic year at Greenback, campus buildings alternate between "occupied" and "unoccupied" status. Our energy management system is programmed...
Eating Sustainably in College
It’s good to collect Ph.D.s—people who have them, not the degrees themselves—to make yourself look smarter at cocktail parties. “Oh...
Speed Tenuring
Although speed dating came along late enough that I missed it, I'll admit being fascinated by it as an intellectual...
Can We Talk About Money?
Money has been much on my mind in recent days. We are all thinking about our work in terms of...
ABC's and PhD's: Book club
Last week my daughter and I read the classic Bridge to Terabithia. I wouldn’t have re-read this on my own...