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Baby Got (Hatch)Back: An Automotive Snark

Last week, car shopping went abruptly from "I should think about that" to "I need to do this right now,"...

Print 'Em and Ship 'Em

A new correspondent writes: >Why do community colleges mail catalogs to everyone? It seems like a lot>of expense for something...

Imagine the Chancellor

Doesn’t have to be the Chancellor. Could be. Drives a Beemer. Big smile, pants are too tight at the waist...

The Tempest, Act 3

Two weeks ago we went to see The Tempest at the University of Illinois’ Krannert Center f or the Performing...

Ask My Readers: Grad School Admissions

An assiduous undergraduate correspondent writes: Is it actually encouraged to email prospective advisors at the schools to which you will...

Cheap Thrill

It's always a cheap thrill when psychiatrists - especially academic psychiatrists - turn out to be infantile, ridiculous people. An...

Bad Job, but Not Malpractice

Sherman Dorn has a thoughtful post up about the difficulties institutions have in dealing with faculty instructional practices that aren't...

Charity and Sustainability

I don't usually do followup posts, but this topic seems to need one. In higher ed, there's no such thing...