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Motherhood after tenure: evaluation time

We received our fall semester course evaluations on the first day of the spring semester. The timing seems akin to...

Are Green Jobs the New Metric System?

A few years ago I mentioned my bewilderment at why the failure of the push to adopt the metric system...

In praise of Gordon Gekko

Today, I got lucky. It's usually better to be lucky than good (a poker player told me that one). It's...

Mashing not Viewing

Is the debate we are having about copyright and online streaming of course video (behind a password through the LMS)...

ABCs and PhD's: The five-year plan

When I was pregnant with my daughter and unsure what was going to happen to my academic career, a woman...

Countercyclical Hiring and Flight Risk

Too many of the arguments I've read and heard for hiring more full-time faculty rely on moralistic appeals. The idea...

Having Fun in Learning Tech

Even my worst days as a learning technologist beat the crap out of my best days in most of the...

Watching trees grow

One of the questions that Greenback students often pose about carbon dioxide emissions runs along the lines of, "well, if...