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BARBIE, PhD?

Ann Zimmerman reports in The Wall Street Journal that, thanks in large part to a viral campaign by female computer...

Epic Fail

What should a college do when a professor fails 90 percent of the students in an intro class? Apparently, at...

Perfectionism -- II

Peg Boyle Single identifies symptoms and treatments for a problem that can block writing.

Hiding in Plain Sight

Campus leaders need to acknowledge, and talk about, the fact that men are more likely than women to commit violence, Jason Laker argues.

Favorite Literary Films

There’s an academic family around these parts, it’s said, who watch all the Jane Austen films together every Thanksgiving break...

How many angels?

So, drawing on the putative thoughts in the last two posts, one of the problems universities face in trying to...

Math Geek Mom: Iconoclasts in April

Once, when I was in high school, I must have said something that particularly exasperated one of my teachers. She...

Ask the Administrator: Interview for First Administrative Job

A new correspondent writes: I am a faculty member in the humanities at a small comprehensive college, and I may...