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Add-Junk or Instructor?

A long-time adjunct evaluates non-tenure-track jobs based in part on how much control you have over the curriculum -- and explains why the issue is crucial.

Occupational Hazard

If professors want to be good teachers, they need to stop making fun of their students, writes Larry D. Spence.

Career Coach: Rules of the Wronged

In her June 30 column, Maureen Dowd offers a series of sardonic “pointers” for women whose politician husbands have been...

Connotation update

This just came across my desktop. Thought it was worth sharing.

Sorry, Mark.

I woke up this morning to hear the end of a seemingly pleasant tete-a-tete between Mark Zandi (of Moody's Economy)...

Dear Plagiarist

G. Thomas Couser explains to a student why excuses for academic dishonesty won't fly with him.

The Problems of Scholarship, Solved

Because I’m on such a tight deadline I pretty much read, write, or think about my topic all the time...

Staff Teaching

My college is grappling with this issue now, and I’m wondering how others have handled it. We have some twelve-month...