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Mothering at Mid-Career: Future Shock
This week I’m planning my summer class, ordering books and sketching out the syllabus. I’ve also just put in a...
First, you have to get to the dilemma
Michael Pollan pretty famously wrote The Omnivore's Dilemma; A Natural History of Four Meals. If you haven't read it, you...
Career Coach: My Advisor Sucks; Advise A Social Scientist
Two questions today, one for me, one for the readers. Any advice if you have a crappy advisor? I am...
Ask the Administrator: Stereotypes of the For-Profit World
A new correspondent writes: After six years of teaching and academic administration at two proprietary schools (neither one being your...
Ask My Readers: Called Out on Retention
A regular correspondent makes an interesting point about "retention" in a different sense of the word: Every time you write...
Math Geek Mom: Learning to Teach
It is ironic that the two jobs by which I define myself; mother and teacher, are the two jobs that...
Reflecting pools and think tanks
As any good student, the more I study this sustainability thing, the less I think I know. There's so much...
Long Distance Mom: Facebooked
Technology is supposed to help long distance commuters bridge many kinds of gaps—personal, intellectual, financial, and physical, to name a...