So Many Mothers Sighing
Your infographic of the day: maternity leave and American exceptionalism.
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* Having a monetary value tied to human incarceration and justice creates a deeply perverse incentive that should not exist in the world of commerce. When the for-profit prison industry places the iron...
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* Read the article on professor-mothers that set Twitter aflame. Guaranteed to be the worst thing you read this week! * No one can figure out how Borislav Ivanov is cheating in chess. Via Boing Boing....
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* Merit and the academy. Challenging, thoughtful post from Timothy Burke. * My beloved alma mater found out about MOOCs. Meanwhile, the New York Times kind of buries the lede: “So far, most MOOCs have...
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* Marquette makes Slate’s vaunted “ridiculous phrases universities have trademarked” list. Meanwhile, Danny Pudi’s Marquette-flavored entry in the 30 for 30 series is up at Grantland. Jesuit author...
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* Average Salaries of Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty at 4-Year Colleges, 2013-14. * How Endowment Hoarding Hurts Universities. * On anxieties in the humanities. * The bad old days in academia....
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* The bottom line of the neoliberal assault on the universities is the increasing power of management and the undermining of faculty self-governance. The real story behind MOOCs may be the ways in...
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* Fear of Stigma Lingers About Use of Family-Friendly Policies. Should You Have a Baby in Grad School? * Don’t Drink Starbucks Free College PR Stunt, Full of Bees. Some details. * Sun Ra: jazz’s...
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I’ve been incredibly busy lately, and things are only going to get worse in the next few weeks. But for now, some links! * I made a Twitterbot that I’m pretty pleased with: @LOLbalwarming. It’s the...
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* But at least one line in the tax form gives pause: The college lost roughly $4-million in investment income compared with the previous year, for unknown reasons. That year the college posted a...
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