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Standing under the arch

“The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into...

TRUTHS OF LIFE, AND OF THE CLASSROOM

"You're excited," said my husband to me as I entered the car last night after my second Messiah rehearsal at...

Still Gets to Me

TW has commented, correctly, that part of the reason I'm suited to academic administration is that I'm prone to repressing...

Long Distance Mom: Airports and Non-Places

What does ‘home for the holidays’ mean when you aren’t really sure where your home is located? Marc Auge’s book...

Speculating About Desire2Learn

Warning : This blog post is entirely speculative and quite likely wrong in many (if not all) areas. Unfortunately, I...

ABC's and PhD's: Nobel perspective

Two weeks ago I reported on a proposal about to come up for vote in the University of Maryland senate...

Settling

You know you're grading on a curve when settling to pay out only $78 million causes your stock to go...

Politics, pedagogy, the press and professors (a prickly post)

Thanks to Terry Calhoun for stating briefly what I will now attempt to say with excruciating verbosity. I've been thinking...