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Mothering at Mid-Career: Juggling
It feels like it's been a while since I wrote anything about being a parent in this space. It's been...
Technology and Grading Experiments
I don't want to push my opinion too much about Cathy Davidson's grading experiments at Duke. Not that I don't...
Not Babylon 5
I don't want to think about the crude oil currently spewing into the Gulf of Mexico. I'd much rather think...
Dress like a dean/provost
After about a year of serving as Assistant Provost, the Provost called me in and indicated that he was more...
'It's a catastrophe. Relax!'
So Nobel laureate Michael Beard assures us all of the the inevitability and consequences of global warming, in Ian McEwan's...
The Girl Plays T-Ball
This Saturday The Girl had her first t-ball game. T-ball, for the uninitiated, is a version of baseball in which...
More on the Humanities and the Marketplace
“Henry Adams’s” most recent “Academic Bait-and-Switch” column in The Chronicle, in which he discusses all of his misguided reasons for...
Ask the Administrator: Hiring Earlier in the Cycle
A new correspondent writes: I work in an English Department at a mid-sized community college and currently chair a search...
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