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Engaging Students as Volunteers and Voters

Colleges need to take specific steps to help students -- and society -- benefit from the interest in this year's elections, write Paul Loeb, Maureen F. Curley and Sherry Morreale.

Motherhood After Tenure: Taking Mama, PhD on the Road

This week I was invited by the University of Central Arkansas to read my essay from Mama, PhD and lead...

Sustainability

'Sustainability' usually refers to the environment, but I think it makes sense in referring to organizations, too. Some structures, cultures...

Sustainability work #3 - Counting, accounting and auditing

Probably the most commonly recognized task that campus sustainability staff perform is the undertaking of a Greenhouse Gas Inventory. (BTW...

Ig-Nobel Thoughts

Is U.S. literature too insular and media-crazed to merit notice by the Swedish Academy? Scott McLemee asks around.

Governance Without Tears

Yesterday's IHE features a thought-provoking piece on the structural contradictions within shared governance. It isn't entirely successful, but it gets...

ABC's and PhD's: Charitable Volunteering

“Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” John F...

The Governance We Deserve

Kristin Esterberg and John Wooding, two professors who became administrators and then returned to the faculty ranks, consider how reward structures divide these groups.