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College Memoir Excerpt From Debra Monroe

Writer and teacher Debra Monroe, author of five previous books, shares a chapter from her new memoir-in-progress, about being the first in her family to go to college.

Math Geek Mom: I Mourn with a Fellow Mother

I learned last week that the baby Panda born in the National Zoo only recently has died, when it was...

Chemical Reactions

When the chemistry faculty of SUNY Potsdam aligned themselves with their library director, Jenica Rogers, to say “no” publicly to the American Chemical Society (ACS) - because the price of their journal package was too high for schools like theirs and would have consumed a disproportionate percentage of the library’s total budget - it was newsworthy. Why in an era when “no” is being said so often is this news?

Grad Student's Guide to Good Tea

Look, coffee is great and all, but it just doesn’t hold a candle to the variety and flexibility of tea. I am a dyed in the wool tea drinker, and I can't write a word without a cuppa. But tea can be tricky; just choosing the generic bagged tea off the shelf rarely results in a triumphant tea experience. Recently, we at GradHacker have posted guides for wine and coffee, and it is high time that delicious teas were given their due.

Ag ec as a lens on economic sustainability

OK, I'm prejudiced. I don't much care for factory-raised meat (or produce, for that matter). That's one of the reasons why I have a big freezer in the garage. (Chest type. Energy efficient. In the unheated garage so that five months out of the year it uses almost no electricity at all.)

Motherhood After Tenure: What I Wish I'd Known When I Began

Graduate programs rarely prepare you for the myriad skills required for being a successful (let alone happy) professor. Most of...

The Power of Systemness

Leaders like SUNY's Nancy Zimpher want to rethink public higher education in ways that emphasize state and student needs and strengthen the colleges that do the heavy lifting, writes Sara Goldrick-Rab.

Introducing 'Sounding Board'

A new forum for conversation about ethics and integrity in higher education.