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Afterglow From the MLA

Maria Shine Stewart, a first timer at the annual gathering of literature and language instructors, will be paying off the trip for a while. But it was well worth it for the content and camaraderie, she writes.

Love is Not Proud

Mrs. Churm, on the prospect of my being called for campus interviews: "I can’t believe you use that harsh deodorant...

The Times Whiffs Again

Several alert readers sent me links to this article from the New York Times. It's a weirdly chipper "pick up...

Video Projects, not Video Viewing

One good thing that I hope emerges from our whole discussion on curricular video and copyright is an extension of...

Sequestration reality check

The last time I did algebra in these pages, I crashed and burned. But the compulsion, triggered by President Obama's...

Motherhood after tenure: evaluation time

We received our fall semester course evaluations on the first day of the spring semester. The timing seems akin to...

Course Evaluations, Years Later

Professors may get much better feedback by waiting a while -- and then asking students to reflect on what stayed with them, writes Tom Deans.

Are Green Jobs the New Metric System?

A few years ago I mentioned my bewilderment at why the failure of the push to adopt the metric system...