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Mothering at Mid-Career: Weekend Update, Election Edition
This weekend I paid for last weekend’s pleasures by working more than I usually do. I had papers to grade...
Pay Yourself First
To get ahead, you need to make your agenda the top priority, writes Kerry Ann Rockquemore.
Not Dodging Health Care Law
Higher education's efforts to assure continuation of student insurance plans reflect a need to clear up ambiguity in the law, write Terry Hartle and Steven Bloom.
Modeling the Life of the Mind
Teaching is at the heart of what I do in the humanities, both in my self-conception as “teacher-scholar” and in...
Culture of Poverty
(Note to my readers: sorry about last week. Life intervened much more than I expected it to. Now, back to...
Potemkin Campuses
Do you know the story of the Potemkin Villages? Russian Minister Gregory Potyomkin allegedly ordered the building of fake villages...
Utility Poles
We don't notice infrastructure until it fails. In my case, I never noticed utility poles until I moved to a...
Parking Revelation
In coming back to my office from a University Lecture, I cut through a main administrative parking lot. The lot...