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Long Distance Mom: Edupunk

When I first heard the word, I thought, ‘Edupunk sounds like the kind of educational strategy that my son Nick...

Acronym Soup

This confession is really awful for an academic administrator, but it’s true. My brain has run out of space for...

Loyalty or Desperation?

From the archives - this post was originally published at http://uvenus.org on 2010.06.30. I didn’t teach last semester (Winter 10)...

ABC's and Ph.D.'s: Unemployed!

All good grants come to an end… and the one that has supported me half-time at the university for the...

Why We Said No

Timothy Larsen answers the top questions he hears, as a member of a faculty search committee, from those who don't get the job.

Let Us Now Praise KJV

This year marks the four hundredth anniversary of an influential translation of the Bible. Scott McLemee hears echoes of it everywhere.

Sinecures and Sunsets

Too many management books are written from the perspective of the CEO. Most managers aren’t CEO’s; they’re somewhere in the...

Discipline (or Punish?)

Deanna wondered not too long ago at UVenus about where she belongs in the world of academia: student, administrator, researcher...