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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...

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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...

Nine Common Errors When Building a New World-Class University

“The opportunity to start from a blank page and create an entire institution from concept to reality is a rare...

Write Your Heaven, Win a Prize

Katherine Mansfield wrote, “Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can’t I talk to you in a big darkish room...