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The Long Tail of Teaching Talent

The tail of teaching talent in your institution is longer then generally recognized, and it extends to your librarians and...

Career Coach: Still More on Gender Balance

As usual, I was fascinated by the responses to last week’s column. I am still looking for the place where...

PLAGIARISM, HIGH AND LOW

Two recent instances of professorial plagiarism - New Zealand novelist Witi Ihimaera and, allegedly, Ohio State University mathematician Azita Manouchehri...

Guest Book Review: Give My Poor Heart Ease

Give My Poor Heart Ease : Voices of the Mississippi Blues. William Ferris. The University of North Carolina Press, November...

Politics of Hiring: Riffing on Profgrrrrl

First, if you've ever wanted a sense of academic hiring, read Profgrrrrl's post. Now. Slowly. It's all true. Worse, it...

Challenges and Opportunities of the Small Screen

How will academic libraries make sure that their content is available on a 3.5-inch mobile device? Should this even be...

Math Geek Mom: Altruism and Aging

My first week of graduate school found me in a microeconomics class with a teacher reviewing the assumptions behind what...

Motherhood After Tenure: taking students personally

At this point in the semester, my students – who once seemed an amorphous blob of Kaylas, Kyras, and Karas...