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Mothering at Mid-Career: What Keeps You Organized?

We leave for a six-week stay in England next Monday. In between now and then I have to finish my...
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Trusting the Amateurs

Job interviewers often avoid asking questions about candidates' areas of expertise out of fear of “discriminating.” What’s wrong with discrimination? asks Mikita Brottman.
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Sotomayor and Our Future

While the Supreme Court nomination is significant for discussions of race and higher education, Sarita E. Brown writes that much of the rhetoric is overstated.
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Novel Release and Giveaways

First, I’d like to offer Mrs. Churm felicitations: Nine years ago today, I knelt on the steel deck of the...
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Passages

Last week was a three-hanky special. The Girl had two graduations: one from her gymnastics class, and one from her...
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Career Coach: Never Getting the Offer

I am a 55-year-old woman with a Ph.D. in economic history, 6 books and quite a few scholarly articles on...
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Ask the Administrator: Picking Winners

A new correspondent writes: With all this talk about green jobs and the more than usual uncertainty about the shape...
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Leaves and Expectations

C.K. Gunsalus considers what to do in a department where some consider time away from teaching duties to be a privilege and others consider it a right.