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A memory now thirty years in the making
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How do you know if your Eureka moments are real?
Reading Lucy Gayheart through neuroscience
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Younger Faculty Are Leaning Out. Is That a Bad Thing?
The debate over work boundaries rolls through higher ed
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Academe is suffering from foreign occupiers
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Open Friday thread: The vocational awe trap
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The real reason Americans are angry about college debt forgiveness
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Literature is a cord that draws us together
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The cult of positive thinking comes for academe
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Can a work self be a whole self?
Searching for a "why" after academe
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Open thread: Penalized for a Ph.D.
At the companion site, Michael Mohr grapples with Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men.
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The Road to Billings, Montana
A college road trip gone wrong
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Don't go to school just to be poor
Listen now (48 min) | Gertrude Nonterah on life after academe
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Private thread: double voicing or truth to power?
I’ll be traveling this weekend for a wedding, so I’ll have limited time to contribute to the discussion until early next week. But here are a few…
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Anne Bradstreet: An American Rorschach Test
And why I believe she should be a household name
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Open Friday Thread: Sustainability through affection
Check out Ian Widdop’s moving essay on childhood and memory at Inner Life.
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Professional athletes are the new robber barons
And land grant universities are helping them along
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Feedback Friday and a private thread
Please check out today’s post at Inner Life, where Jan Peppler, PhD shares her search for a vocational home. Last year, at about the halfway mark, I…
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