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Ensuring That States Support Higher Ed

For the sake of students, Congress should require legislatures to maintain their funding of higher education, F. King Alexander writes.

A Test for Readers

If you’re like me, you never go anywhere without a book, since there’s too great a chance you might be...

Release Time and Double Dipping

If you're a full-time faculty member, and you get a courseload reduction in exchange for taking on some extra non-classroom...

Local medium

Yesterday evening, I was listening to NPR while I was driving, and they did a bit about a local bartering...

What the Army Taught Me About Teaching

Martha Kinney writes that she learned more about reaching poorly prepared students when she was in the military than in grad school.

Ask the Administrator: Salary Haggling

A new correspondent writes: With a little luck and a lot of hard work (and a long, drawn out application...

MOTHERHOOD AFTER TENURE

This is an excerpt from the essay, "Motherhood After Tenure: Confessions of a Late Bloomer" published in Mama, PhD: Women...

Megacity, Many Questions

Our old friend Charlie Hailey, who happens to be young and brilliant, told me I should read the wonderfully-named Lars...