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A left coast correspondent writes: What constraints do people serving on hiring committees work under? In an attempt to make...

I'm about two-thirds of the way through Beyond the Modern University, by Marcus Peter Ford. It's a slim volume, but...

We do not want to enter the typical stay-at-home mom vs. working mom battle – rather we believe that there...

When do we get snacks? Now? Now? Stand up? Aw, man... I can do an armpit fart. Watch! Oh, yeah...

Vance Fried's proposal for a "$7,376 Ivy" isn't intended to be about sustainability, unless we're talking about the sustainability of...

Greenback U. is, in the terminology of those who think and write analytically about such things, a "multiversity." It's a...

I had a conversation this week with a colleague at whose college, as at so many others, the level of...

One of the nice things about blogging is the sense it can provide of participating in an ongoing conversation. After...