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Helpful Hints for Hidden Hoops

Over the past week, I've heard three separate discussions of invisible hoops in the job market that disfavor folks who...

Adhocracy and the Transformation of Libraries

I’ve been mulling over a couple of documents that have generated a lot of chatter in my online circles in...

Being Curious

The day I am writing this, I am sick. I was supposed to go to the Polish Consulate to do...

Academic Freedom's Best Days

I'll sketch out a claim that academic freedom flourished in the late 1960s and early 1970s, then consider why, then...

Mothering at Mid-Career: The Cruellest Month?

Dean Dad seems to agree with T.S. Eliot that “April is the cruellest month.” He’s got a point: just as...

Diversity Begins At Home

The Wife is Catholic, and I’m not. She’s raising the kids Catholic, though we’ve negotiated some boundaries on that. The...

Creating community when you don't have a "quad"

What happens when your students are not physically at your campus? How do they find and create community when they...

Academic employment - stability (1)

I don't hear it much from the faculty, but for a fair number of staff, one great thing about working...