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Ask the Administrator: Selling the New Dean on an Idea

A new correspondent writes: I'm a postdoc at a big research university. We have a confluence of events at our...

The Catharctic Half-Light -- Norman Maclean, Part Two

Norman Maclean, an Aristotelian, learned deeply what Aristotle taught: tragic art is cathartic. Toward the end of his life, he...

Breaking hab - its hard to do

Over the last year or so I've gone to 1 or 2 conferences, taken 1 or 2 training classes, visited...

Desperately Seeking Dubuffet

It’s interesting and strange to me how easy it is to sink into a willful belief that the Internet has...

The Economy and College Student Health

The burgeoning financial pressures on institutions increase the need for them to look for creative ways to make health insurance more affordable, not less, for their students, writes Jon Englund.

Friday Quotables

Charles Manning, chancellor of the Tennessee Board of Regents, acknowledged that adjuncts teach a large share of the classes at...

Math Geek Mom: Invest in Yourself

This is the time of the school year when many of us are running around looking for people to teach...

A BLOGGER RUNS THROUGH IT - Part One

UD has stepped in the same river twice, and reread, after twenty years, Norman Maclean's story, A River Runs Through...