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Mothering at Mid-Career: Why travel?
I often wonder if the academic conference is going the way of the dinosaurs. They are expensive, after all, and...
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Ask the Administrator: ERP!
A new correspondent writes: I am currently on the administrative market. I've had one interview, and this topic did not...
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When You Don't Want to Teach That Course
Dear Survival Guide: My chair just asked me to teach a course I've never taught, and which I think is...
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We Need a New Kind of Institutional Aid
Congress needs to create a program that rewards colleges and universities that educate disadvantaged students, write Charles B. Reed and F. King Alexander.
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A Sonnet for Nicholas Hughes
Each suicide writes a new life storyWith obvious portents like something out of Dreiser Or like the junior high school...
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Ask the Administrator: Internships
A new correspondent writes: Recently I've noticed an increase of reports in the popular press proclaiming an "internship arms race"...
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On crashing and burning in public
My previous post was perhaps not worse than a crime, but it was definitely a blunder. To go 0-for-2 in...
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The Stimulus Package -- News From the Front
Hundreds of billions of dollars are flowing. Wick Sloane wonders: Can't the country spare $100 in textbook loaners for each of the nation's community college students?