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My two teenagers have developed musical skills that neither their father nor myself ever possessed. They both participate in marching...

This story about the election results got me wondering. (And everybody can put the knives down -- I’m not analyzing...

I was hoping to engage in a dialogue with this community about how departments (or units or divisions etc.) can...

Contemporary Americans, wrote the philosopher Richard Rorty, are "rich fat [and] tired;" they live in an "Alexandrian" culture. Craig Brandon's...

I'm playing in a poker tournament next week for an association's foundation fund. Apparently I will be playing something called...

We spend so much time worrying about what is wrong with our U.S. higher ed system that it is easy...

Anyone in the academy already knows that if a letter of recommendation praises a student as a ‘hard worker,’ the...

The Boy's school recently had Back to School night, so the four of us went to see what there was...