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Faking It, With 2 Books and More
Terry Caesar considers the assumptions academics make about fellow academics -- many times based on a less than complete reality.
Bad Job, but Not Malpractice
Sherman Dorn has a thoughtful post up about the difficulties institutions have in dealing with faculty instructional practices that aren't...
Charity and Sustainability
I don't usually do followup posts, but this topic seems to need one. In higher ed, there's no such thing...
To the Things Themselves
Sometimes bric-a-brac has meaning. Scott McLemee interviews an interpreter.
Scathing Online Schoolmarm
This post's subtitle rewrites something Hamlet said: How all occasions do inform against me... Prose discloses. However much you think...
The Charity Shakedown
A long-suffering correspondent writes: My SLAC employer conducts an annual United Way fundraising drive. Earlier this fall, a letter was...
Talkin 'bout Their Generation
Everyone knows that rock and roll is all about kicking out the jams: ditching uptight squares, taking long rides in...
Women, Science and Interdisciplinary Ways of Working
Discussions of how to diversify the research world and of how to work beyond the boundaries of traditional fields should be combined, write Diana Rhoten and Stephanie Pfirman.