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Ask the Administrator: Waiting for the Official Offer
A returning correspondent writes: First I want to thank you and your readers for responding to a couple of different...
An Introduction
It gives us great pleasure to launch the Mama, PhD blog here on Inside Higher Ed! Mama, PhD is a...
What Josh Birnbaum Knows
Another of the benefits of revealing my real name and location is the ability to profile remarkable people I’ve met...
Freecycle it
One of the mantras of the sustainability movement is "reduce, reuse, recycle." The three options are stated in order of...
Spending Per Student
There's a provocative piece in yesterday's IHE about a study on per-student spending at various levels of higher ed, and...
Death of a Mentor
Only yesterday did I hear of the death, last September, of Professor Emeritus James J. McNiece, Jr., of Northern Illinois...
Modest proposal #11 - Take the day off
Let's say you live some distance from campus, not near any other employees who work a schedule similar to yours...
Vent to the Administrator: College as Playground
A new correspondent writes: I've been a faithful reader for a while now ... an issue has been brought to...