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Reality Show?

Several commenters have recently suggested a Dean Dad reality show. It's not gonna happen – the pseudonym would be pretty...

Town

Exceptional, at least, in the sense that it goes against the grain of most of what I've been thinking on...

ABC's and PhD's: summer transition

With the end of the semester, we packed up our household and headed out to the other side of the...

Teaching = Consciousness?

My acquaintance Crazy Larry, an actor, has been supplementing his income by serving as a fake patient for doctors-to-be. You’d...

Fast Tracking a Ph.D.

It can be done: Judy Beth Morris describes how she finished her doctorate in three years, and how you can, too (if the stars align).

How Tweet It Is

Is microblogging the shortcut to generating buzz for university press books? Scott McLemee works up the attention span to find out....

The Holding Tank

Our summer enrollments are breaking records, and anecdotally, that seems to be a function mostly of two variables: a lack...

The New 'A

Here’s a ray of hope to restore prestige and morale to our beleaguered flagship state universities: let’s have “A&M” stand...