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A devoted reader writes to ask, “What should I be reading this summer?” I too like reading lists. They’re the...

The Girl's birthday is coming up, and we're at a loss for ideas for presents, so the whole group piled...

Douglas King lives 120 miles from where he teaches -- and he couldn't be happier.

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I'm not usually one for memes, but having been tagged by both Dr. Pion and Lesboprof, here goes. I have...

Colleges and Congress should respond to the student loan controversy -- but they should do so expansively, not with patchwork solutions, Frederick M. Hess and Juliet Squire argue.

I'm wondering if you or your readers can shed any light on the issue of women being pregnant while on the job market. Every academic woman planning to become a mother has to weigh the timing of a pregnancy very carefully, and the general assumption is that you never want to be pregnant while you're on the job market. When you think about it from the perspective of the woman, however, we're often weighing many issues that can conflict with each-other: for example, whether a pregnancy is more feasible during graduate school--even with dissertation writing and teaching--than it is when you've gotten a tenure-track job, the question of when we can count on having health insurance, and the possibilities for any maternity leave. Most of the time, I think women try to time pregnancies so they can deliver a baby at the beginning of the summer and extend their time at home, but the timing of the (lengthy) academic job market process kills this possibility since anyone getting pregnant in the late summer would be very visibly pregnant during job interviews.

A new correspondent writes: ------ I'm wondering if you or your readers can shed any light on the issue of...