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When I entered graduate school, I once proudly proclaimed to someone I had just met that “I don’t want to...

Most colleges set aside at least some 'professional development' money for faculty and staff. The idea behind it is that...

Is it the road map to a brave new world? The end of Western civilization as we know it? Both...

Via Cold Spring Shops, I ran across this quote from conservative commentator David Frum: Why are the wages of the...

They’re killing doctors. That’s what I thought in October, 1998 when I heard that Dr. Barnett Slepian had been gunned...

A lot of my memory of college is a blur now, but a few things I stand out in my...

No, I don’t mean this. Or this. Or this. I’m not even referring to the governor of Illinois at the...

A regular correspondent writes: What do you do when the combination of a dean with a tentative style and an...