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Ask the Administrator: Ambition and Decorum
A tenured, Canadian correspondent writes: I never used to have ambition to reach "full" level as it seemed beyond the...
Ask My Readers: First Time Teaching at a CC
A grad student in psychology writes: I am an ABD grad student and am teaching my first class at a...
"I've Done Everything You've Asked Me To Do!"
One of the less lovely aspects of my job is talking with faculty whose promotion applications have been denied. There's...
Ask the Administrator: "We Don't Really Like You, But..."
An already-employed correspondent (it's relevant) writes: ---------- I am not sure, but I think that I may have just received...
University Presidential Memoirs
University presidents are a varied lot: some charismatic and charming, some dour and solid, some charlatans and others true believers...
The Parents Out There Will Understand
I work hard at my job, but after this weekend, I'm looking forward to returning to work so I can...
What a Special Operations Chaplain Knows
He was the best of us, as they say, but that’s not claiming much moral high ground. Back in what’s...
What Ngo Trung Viet Knows
My preceding post was about a collection of poems by an 18th-century Vietnamese concubine, Ho Xuan Huong, who wrote in...