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Motherhood After Tenure: the Teacher as Student
This week’s Chronicle of Higher Education contains an essay by Roger H. Martin, a former college president who spent a...
Craven courage
So ... "climate disruption", you say? I think I like it! Meanwhile ... Right after my clock radio switched itself...
ABCs and PhDs: Small Bites
My baby started kindergarten last week. Well, she’s actually five, and very ready for kindergarten, but she’s my youngest. I’ve...
Moving Beyond the 'Big 3'
It’s a brave new world for tenure-track faculty members, graduate students, and postdocs these days. New and aspiring professors enter...
Ask the Administrator: Gifts from Students
A longtime reader writes: One of my students from last year came in today and gave me a t-shirt that...
Charles Murray on Elites
As we wait for the next water to break on the Palin story, it's worth recalling that one of the...
Why Assistant Professors Should Earn More Than the Tenured
Doing so might bruise the egos of senior professors. But a college could increase the quality of its faculty by giving relatively higher salaries to junior professors, James D. Miller writes.
The Dropoff
Although community colleges have a more age-diverse student population than most of the rest of higher ed, the average age...