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... be very afraid!

Like everybody else, I'm following what's happening in Washington with regard to the possible bailout of financial markets. What strikes...

WHO KILLED DAVID FOSTER WALLACE?

Suicides, especially the suicides of sensitive writers we love (Virginia Woolf, Randall Jarrell, Sylvia Plath, David Foster Wallace), are a...

Bumper Stickers? Really?

Some issues are difficult. They feature the conflict of valid goods, a shortage of critical resources, or clashes of identity...

Well, Duh...

A new report from the American Council on Education (see it here) entitled "Too Many Rungs on the Ladder? Faculty...

ABCs and PhDs: Kindergarten

These last few weeks starting kindergarten have been hard! I remember this from my older daughter too; the adjustment is...

Sneaking in after hours

An article by Elizabeth Redden in yesterday's IHE noted that more than half of the charter signatories to the ACUPCC...

Mothering at Mid-Career #21: Dual Career?

There's almost too much important news these days to choose something to blog about. The economy, the election, the weather...

Polarizing Professors

This week's New York Times supplement on teaching once again skipped community colleges completely, even though it found several pages...