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3 for the Adjuncts
Happy April Fool’s Day, from registered fool number one. Here are three video clips for your amusement. You don't have...
Professors Should Embrace Wikipedia
Academics can strengthen the online encyclopedia and benefit from doing so, writes Mark A. Wilson.
Signs
At dinner last night with The Wife, The Boy, and The Girl: TW: How was CCD today? TB: Good. TW...
Earth Hour
Sometimes, it's what you don't plan that goes well. Earth Hour, an event which originated only last year on the...
A Challenge to Billion Dollar Endowments
Bruce Simon writes about how the debate looks when your institution's entire budget would be a rounding error for Harvard, and offers suggestions for the wealthiest universities.
Classroom or Bedroom...
...laptops tend to mean you're not getting any. 37 percent of Americans bring laptops (and other disconnect-anxiety stuff) to bed...
Ask the Administrator: What About Teaching High School?
A longtime reader writes: I'll be starting a Ph.D. program in History in the Fall. I know the risks, and...
Beyond the beyond
Paycheck envy aside, I'm glad I'm not a university president. Long hours, too many constituencies bringing too many competing priorities...