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Mothering at Mid-Career: Wardrobe, Redux
I’ve been thinking about my wardrobe ever since I read Susan O’Doherty’s piece today in Mama, PhD. While I’m grateful...
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'At Home' with Bill Bryson
While looking for the future at EDUCAUSE 2010 I ended up, thanks to Bill Bryson, being captivated by the past...
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The Girl, Social Observer
Last night The Wife and I were working on The Girl’s Halloween costume. She had planned to dress as Medusa...
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If not a world class research university, then perhaps world class liberal arts?
Doesn’t everyone want to be world class? It projects such a nice aura! Recent publications -- first by Altbach &...
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Mid-Semester Sinking Feeling
Kerry Ann Rockquemore shares a technique for getting organized.
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Perils of Presidential Parallels
Robert Schmuhl writes about how he tries to engage the public with nonpartisan analysis based on scholarship -- and manages to offend all sides.
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Conversations that Count
Today I received the first royalty check for my first book, Women, Civil Society and the Geopolitics of Democratization. It...
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Tossing Bottles
As a teenager in the 1980’s, I saw most of the important teen movies of the era. One of the...