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Politics of Hiring: Riffing on Profgrrrrl

First, if you've ever wanted a sense of academic hiring, read Profgrrrrl's post. Now. Slowly. It's all true. Worse, it...

Challenges and Opportunities of the Small Screen

How will academic libraries make sure that their content is available on a 3.5-inch mobile device? Should this even be...

Math Geek Mom: Altruism and Aging

My first week of graduate school found me in a microeconomics class with a teacher reviewing the assumptions behind what...

Reviving the Academic Library

Instead of trying to turn themselves into something they're not -- a center of fundamental learning -- campus libraries should focus on their traditional core mission of supporting education and research, writes Johann Neem.

Motherhood After Tenure: taking students personally

At this point in the semester, my students – who once seemed an amorphous blob of Kaylas, Kyras, and Karas...

Ask the Administrator: Let's Go to the Videotape!

An occasional correspondent writes: At one of my adjunct gigs (where I teach just once a week) the HR department...

Support Faculty Choice for Open Learning

Brad Stone has an interesting piece "The Argument for Free Classes via iTunes" in today NYTimes. He reports that iTunesU...

Selling sustainability

Let me start by saying that I'm tremendously conflicted on this subject. Probably the first lessons I taught my children...