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If There'll Be Snow
When classes were finished and Thanksgiving break started last week, my family and I blew out of town so fast...
'The Cusp of Every Bibliomaniac's Dream'
It is possible that I have too many books. There, I said it. (That felt weird.) Heading off to visit...
Looking Like Work
To the surprise of absolutely nobody who knows me, I'm a fan of The Big Bang Theory. In a recent...
Unplugged for Thanksgiving
Do you plan to unplug for Thanksgiving? Will you leave the laptop at home as you travel to spend the...
ABCs and PhDs: Kicks, kata, and kiai - life lessons from my karate kid
We were all up before the sun this past Saturday morning. My eight-year-old son was practically bouncing off the walls...
. . . only more so
I've been troubled for some time by all the media focus on how the economy ostensibly is recovering. Consumer activity...
Assessing NSSE
The survey of student engagement has been widely embraced as an accountability tool. But it's flawed as a measure of campus learning, Mark Schneider writes, and even weaker when used for comparing colleges.
Teaching Governance
There's a thoughtful piece in yesterday's IHE by Terri Givens about how graduate students and new professors are socialized, or...