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Imagine the Chancellor

Doesn’t have to be the Chancellor. Could be. Drives a Beemer. Big smile, pants are too tight at the waist...

The Tempest, Act 3

Two weeks ago we went to see The Tempest at the University of Illinois’ Krannert Center f or the Performing...

Ask My Readers: Grad School Admissions

An assiduous undergraduate correspondent writes: Is it actually encouraged to email prospective advisors at the schools to which you will...

Cheap Thrill

It's always a cheap thrill when psychiatrists - especially academic psychiatrists - turn out to be infantile, ridiculous people. An...

Bad Job, but Not Malpractice

Sherman Dorn has a thoughtful post up about the difficulties institutions have in dealing with faculty instructional practices that aren't...

Charity and Sustainability

I don't usually do followup posts, but this topic seems to need one. In higher ed, there's no such thing...

Scathing Online Schoolmarm

This post's subtitle rewrites something Hamlet said: How all occasions do inform against me... Prose discloses. However much you think...

The Charity Shakedown

A long-suffering correspondent writes: My SLAC employer conducts an annual United Way fundraising drive. Earlier this fall, a letter was...