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Mission Not to Accomplish

President Obama's call for more Americans to earn college degrees may not be the best way to improve the economy, writes Michael Rizzo.

Mothering at Mid-Career: Do professors matter?

Somewhere in my blog reading over the last few weeks I ran across a link to a brief piece in...

Editing and Intimacy

This post of Aunt B's, over at Tiny Cat Pants, struck a chord. Close editing, as distinguished from scanning-for-typos, is...

Hosts, beneficial parasites, ratios and the like

Susan Rogers at SCUP shared with me some data on the membership of that organization, and it turns out that...

Piles, Stacks, Folders

Peg Boyle Single suggests ways to turn all of those articles, books and PDFs into chapters.

Planning Trumps Rankings

The overblown controversy over Clemson's approach to U.S. News shows not only the folly of rating colleges, but also the wisdom of good campus planning, Garrison Walters argues.

Ask the Administrator: Tracking the Elusive Full-Time Business/Management Gig

A new correspondent writes: I just read your post on full-time English gigs. Is the picture any brighter for those...

Career Coach: The WSJ Flapdoodle

I came late to this party — I was away when Naomi Schaeffer Riley’s article came out, and when I...