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Recruiting Without Paying
A returning correspondent writes: I'm just starting to think of the hiring season and, while I'm at a urban high...
Deconstructing Faculty Work
Over the past decade much discussion has focused on the growing percentage of college teaching done by contingent faculty. Variously...
College Break-Creep
No, not the guy standing in front of the toilet door on the charter bus from Michigan State to Daytona...
Fun with Boards
Although some on campus like to talk about The Administration as a monolith, like The Borg, it's actually composed of...
Scenes from Thanksgiving Break
A few vignettes from the holiday weekend: *** The Boy at lunch: "I'm thinking of a word that rhymes with...
UD Gives Thanks to Thomas Doherty
Professor Thomas Doherty of Brandeis University will be in UD's Thanksgiving prayers today. Most Americans can't stand professors -- they've...
Happy Thanksgiving
A couple of weeks ago I called my old friend Frenchy and asked if he’d come for Thanksgiving. It wasn’t...
Access and Limits
Aspazia, characteristically, has a thought-provoking post about applied ethics. This time it's about some partial scholarships that her husband's college...