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Korporate Kollege Athletics
How stupid are American university students, professors, and sports boosters willing to be? Very, Selena Roberts points out in today's...
I Need Your Help
No, not with childcare; I have that under control. When Mrs. Churm left Sunday for the NAFSA conference in the...
"I've already lost quite a lot of career opportunities."
When a high-profile, well-compensated professor who’s also his university’s assistant vice president of government relations is convicted of a serious...
The Long View
Near the end of each semester a student inevitably asks, “Why is literature always about bad stuff?” Even if we’re...
Intro UD
It’s the end of the academic year, and so far the Associated Press and The Washington Post have featured articles...
Of Ideal Teachers, Part 2
But another kind of teacher, the artist, shows us how to see, and some of the most interesting are those...
Of Ideal Teachers, Part 1
My acquaintance Chaz and I were imagining an ideal teacher. Actually, we’d been talking about the future, when I intend...
Where Do They All Come From?
I succumbed this week and created my own MySpace page , largely on the advice of a New York Times...