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Teaching Abroad With Obama
Helen Solterer, with Jean Delabroy, considers how one of the presidential candidate's speeches was used by a French university.
The Beginnings of Self-Awareness
We're trying to raise The Girl to be a strong and independent woman, which, given her lineage, is a bit...
Drama Mama: Everything's Under Control
I’ve just had two weeks of faculty orientation activities and I am so tired I can’t see straight. Between the...
Expanding Student Choices in Study Abroad
In a global academic market, colleges should shed their protectionist policies on transfer of credit, writes Richard C. Sutton.
For Enervated Scholars
Our friend Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin says there are three kinds of exhaustion: “Exhaustion caused by muscular fatigue, exhaustion caused by...
MOTHERHOOD AFTER TENURE: Parenting a department
Yesterday I met with the new chair of my department to tie up loose ends, hand over some paperwork, and...
The Safety School Shuffle
With classes starting any minute now – I can see the dorsal fin in the water – the folks in...
On 'Real Education' - II
Bell Curve author Charles Murray takes direct aim at higher education in his new book Real Education by asserting that...