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A convenient falsehood (?)
This morning's newspaper features an Associated Press article about a Brookings Institution ranking of the 100 largest US cities, based...
Let's Do the Time Warp Again
Reason #456 we need to hire the next generation of administrators, from an actual conversation I had this week with...
Math Mom: Fitting In
Let me clear up any misconception. I am a tenured faculty member at a celebrated liberal arts institution who will...
ABCs and PhDs: Simplicity
I have a friend who’s coming up for tenure at a major research university this summer. He calls it his...
Well, That Was Quick...
It's easy to underestimate the impact of sex scandals. According to this article from the Albany (NY) Times-Union, Governor Paterson...
Suicide
Hank Payne, Denice Denton, Jorge Liderman, Jerry Wolff -- these are some of the more high-profile professors who've killed themselves...
Managing the Elite
A recent Inside HigherEd (May 27, 2008), and elsewhere in the media, reflects much excitement about the decision by various...
A list on the road to Damascus
Over the three-day weekend, I managed to do a little reading. One of the magazines that I actually pay money...