Not of General Interest

How do you project power--not arrogance, but power--through your speech and body language? We've all seen the advice telling us not to...

Tenured Radical has a post up about a book, Clutter-Busting , that encourages getting rid of things, examining your emotional attachments to...

Historiann and Tenured Radical have a pair of great posts about how to take control of your time: their theme is "say no and set limi...

Profgrrrl , Dr. Crazy , Historiann , and Female Science Professor have some great posts about issues that Dr. Crazy grouped together as ...

I've been reading The Autobiography of William Lyon Phelps (1939), and while it does have some sigh-worthy features (such as having col...

Dispatches from the same routine in a different place. I love watching students walking along campus paths and reading, standing in food li...

Invent your own questions. (Hint: One of these is meant to be delivered in a heavily sarcastic tone.) 1. Not as productive as I'd hoped,...

Because of a situation that came up recently, I've been thinking about the difference between service and servitude in academe. We all ...

To all those who are contacting me this week, when there is not one single administrative thing I am responsible for doing or can do until s...

"Hi," began the cheery email. "Although you're on the large, campus-wide committee, we omitted your name from the initial...

. . . you are answering and sending emails at a rate that resembles those scenes in old movie Westerns, when the bad guys shoot at the feet ...

From "How to Get What You Want in Academe" by Gary Olson at the Chronicle: (Shorter Olson: This isn't the way.) At a recen...

I'm just catching up with Perlmutter's "The Joyless Quest for Tenure" at the Chronicle. To put it mildly, I have a few pr...

After grading on Friday night, spend the weekend working on a book manuscript review. Take copious notes. Spend today writing up the review...

It's a lovely day: the sun is shining, it's about 70 degrees, and there's a light breeze blowing. In short, it's a perfect ...

As I was driving to work the other day, I started thinking about how professors' jobs and campus life generally were depicted in old Hol...

Number of syllabi completed and dropped off for copying: 1. Number of syllabi left to do: 1. Number of people who attended the long depar...