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Cleaner Air, Cooler Planet

Doing a greenhouse gas inventory for a college or university involves crunching a lot of numbers. Activities which generate emissions...

Advise and Consent

David Galef describes U of All People's humble effort to streamline its advice on advising for students and faculty members.

Motherhood After Tenure: Domestic Duties

Tomorrow is my best friend’s birthday and I’ve decided to give her an unusual present: I’m paying to have her...

Training Young Voters

Last week, The Wife decided that it was time to teach The Boy and The Girl about voting. She converted...

ABC's and PhD's: Gender equity in academic science?

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is a law that states: “No person in the United States shall...

Bad news/good news

First, the bad news. (And I guess the bad news could be good news, if you look at it a...

Market Failure

Why, after 30 years of deregulation, is the state bigger than ever? Scott McLemee checks out a new book on the paradox.

Second-Year Scholarships and Subsidized Slacking

Okay, I'll admit to being a sucker for certain kinds of ideas: they're usually 'what ifs' that involve upending a...