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Antioch: Report From Ground Zero
Paula Treichler, who recently resigned from the university's board, offers an inside look at the turmoil of the last year as trustees moved to close a beloved college.
Ask the Administrator: Charging Search Committees
A left coast correspondent writes: What constraints do people serving on hiring committees work under? In an attempt to make...
Beyond modernity
I'm about two-thirds of the way through Beyond the Modern University, by Marcus Peter Ford. It's a slim volume, but...
ABCs and PhDs: Non-Traditional Academics - "NTAs", not "SAHMs"
We do not want to enter the typical stay-at-home mom vs. working mom battle – rather we believe that there...
A Minor-League Baseball Game, Through the Eyes of Three Seven Year Olds
When do we get snacks? Now? Now? Stand up? Aw, man... I can do an armpit fart. Watch! Oh, yeah...
One possible future
Vance Fried's proposal for a "$7,376 Ivy" isn't intended to be about sustainability, unless we're talking about the sustainability of...
Towards Helhaven
Was the new Pixar film "WALL-E" inspired by an American cultural theorist? Scott McLemee goes over the moon to find out.
Planning to plan to plan
Greenback U. is, in the terminology of those who think and write analytically about such things, a "multiversity." It's a...