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Academic Freedom's Best Days

I'll sketch out a claim that academic freedom flourished in the late 1960s and early 1970s, then consider why, then...

Mothering at Mid-Career: The Cruellest Month?

Dean Dad seems to agree with T.S. Eliot that “April is the cruellest month.” He’s got a point: just as...

Diversity Begins At Home

The Wife is Catholic, and I’m not. She’s raising the kids Catholic, though we’ve negotiated some boundaries on that. The...

Creating community when you don't have a "quad"

What happens when your students are not physically at your campus? How do they find and create community when they...

Academic employment - stability (1)

I don't hear it much from the faculty, but for a fair number of staff, one great thing about working...

Five Things to Do or Change in Higher Education

No amount of analysis then or now can alter much the march of history. Had Ancient Rome, for example, not...

Our Knowing by Bits and Pieces

In “ The Fact Behind the Facts, or, How You Can Get It All Right and Still Get It All...

A Professional Development Day

For his students, Wick Sloane runs the Boston Marathon today. With endorsements from Doonesbury, Mint Milanos, and the Andover Shop.