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Mothering at Mid-Career: First Day of School

A week ago on Monday afternoon — the time when I usually write this blog post — I was in...

Nieces

The nieces came to visit this weekend. The older niece is three, and the younger one is five months. The...

The Challenge of Value-Added

Quick: name your five best school teachers or college professors, the individuals from primary school through graduate school who made...

Define "In the Discipline"

Who’s qualified to teach college level math? This isn’t limited to math, but I’ll start there because it’s concrete. Similar...

#ASA2010, Multi-tasking the Academic Conference

Atlanta in August – hot, humid, and sticky. It had been seven years since I had attended the American Sociological...

Choosing 'The Art of Choosing'

I decided to read Sheena Iyengar's new book, The Art of Choosing, after watching her TED Talk. The opportunity to...

Transparent

I have been spending the last few days reviewing my tenure and promotion recommendations to the President. Each tenure and...

The Pressure to Please

Aeron Haynie’s excellent post on girls and weight/eating issues made me rethink Ms. Mentor’s most recent column, “Being Nice or...