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AMY BISHOP
Amy Bishop, a Harvard PhD, a wife and mother, a successful biology researcher, a University of Alabama professor whose students...
Survival of the Disciplines
Why are some departments being eliminated while others are secure? Where will all this pruning leave academe? Meg Worley wonders about the future.
Search Committee Etiquette
Mikita Brottman offers six tips for those interviewing faculty members in this challenging year.
Ask the Administrator: No Exit?
An off-the-beaten-path correspondent writes: I graduated from Public U. back in 2008 and since then I have been a yellowpages...
Learning Styles and Tuition Dollars
In 2019 both of my girls will be in college. Our tuition dollars will go to the schools that figure...
Dissing equilibrium
I was talking to an economist this week. (She's not an environmental economist -- I don't know whether that would...
Long Distance Mom: Avatars and Earth Mothers
The reviews of Avatar are in — the CGI effects are incredible, the motion captured acting is solid, but the...
Lessons from a Super Loss
The seeds of the Colts’ defeat were written several weeks earlier -- with implications for higher education, Karen Gross writes.