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3 for the Adjuncts
Happy April Fool’s Day, from registered fool number one. Here are three video clips for your amusement. You don't have...
Signs
At dinner last night with The Wife, The Boy, and The Girl: TW: How was CCD today? TB: Good. TW...
Earth Hour
Sometimes, it's what you don't plan that goes well. Earth Hour, an event which originated only last year on the...
Classroom or Bedroom...
...laptops tend to mean you're not getting any. 37 percent of Americans bring laptops (and other disconnect-anxiety stuff) to bed...
Ask the Administrator: What About Teaching High School?
A longtime reader writes: I'll be starting a Ph.D. program in History in the Fall. I know the risks, and...
Beyond the beyond
Paycheck envy aside, I'm glad I'm not a university president. Long hours, too many constituencies bringing too many competing priorities...
Elementary Ed in a University Town
Champaign-Urbana is not a small town, though it’s often thought of as one. It’s actually two cities, of course, with...
Transparency and Reciprocity
Tim Burke and Chad Orzel have recently posted some helpful thoughts on tenure and its assumptions. This paragraph of Chad's...