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This is an excerpt from the essay, "Motherhood After Tenure: Confessions of a Late Bloomer" published in Mama, PhD: Women...

Our old friend Charlie Hailey, who happens to be young and brilliant, told me I should read the wonderfully-named Lars...

A new correspondent writes: I'm interviewing for an interesting non-faculty position soon, and before I go in to the interview...

I've been away from teaching for four years now, since our relocation to the Vancouver area and the subsequent birth...

Looking around at my fellow adjunct professors, it bothers me how many are mothers holding PhDs. I can’t help but...

A regular reader writes: I'd love to hear people's advice on how to fire student assistants gracefully. Better still, I'd...

I've commented before on the challenges Greenback is facing, accounting for the considerable greenhouse gas emissions resulting from things like...

Periodically, universities and their friends engage in a flurry of conversations about naming things on campus, usually triggered by a...