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Grade Inflation, Employee Edition
This time of year brings with it the annual flood of program reviews, employee evaluations, and end-of-year wrap-ups. (Between the...
Town
A story on NPR this morning spoke of how, while it's going downhill slower than the financial or manufacturing sectors...
Growing Your Own
The Chronicle and IHE each have articles about succession planning for college administrators. They're both relatively supportive of hiring internal...
Mothering at Mid-Career: A Farewell to Helicopters … Maybe
Did you hear the news? Over-parenting is over. So decree the arbiters of lifestyle trends — or, at least, Lisa...
Town
Sunday evening, I was driving with Mrs. R. in a town near our farm. We were proceeding down what used...
Career Coach: Going Back to Grad School
Dear Susan, Seven years ago I started graduate school, a year after I had gotten married and moved to a...
Monday Musings
In discussing a nearby park, TG asked me “why did they put a hill there when they designed the world?”...
What's the Matter with Rory?
My acquaintance Rory has a Ph.D. in American literature and is an administrator and a poet of sorts himself. At...