Not of General Interest

(Rod Serling voice) Imagine, if you will,  a world in which people must write for a living, but in order to write, they must read, and g...

Dear Ms. Undine, Why do people like to play April Fool's Day pranks? Especially computer pranks, like Google's failed mic drop ...

Dear Ms. Undine, Every day on the interwebs, I see new words that no one defines but that everyone seems to understand all of a sudden. ...

Dear Ms. Undine, Ms. Mentor calls October "exploding head month" because of all the grant applications due then.  A whole lot ...

Dear Ms. Undine, In between admin, prepping classes, meeting, and still trying to keep some time for writing, I take out a few minutes...

Dear Ms. Undine, From Shutterstock Someone just wrote a book that is entirely composed of tweets about writing a book . People post ab...

Dear Ms. Undine, IHE recently reported that colleges in Michigan are outsourcing their hiring of adjuncts to something called EDUStaff....

Dear Ms. Undine, All the academics I know on Facebook are on vacation or hiking in the mountains or traveling in Europe, having a fabulo...

If you don’t have an in-person writing group, your dreams will apparently supply one. I was working for a firm that turned out...

"When will you give us back our papers?" When they are graded. "Will you give them back to us at the next class?" ...

Welcome to Air Literature, Flight 457, departing for nineteenth-century Boston. Our flying time today is estimated at 75 minutes. Flight at...

Scene: The shared office commons now being touted in the Chronicle . Faculty sit at tables, their brightly-colored rolling carts by their si...

Update: The New Office Commons, a Day in the Life First they said, "You don't need good salaries, do you? You don't mind maki...

So, Tom, I've been working along here on this manuscript pretty intensively. When you said my argument was like nothing you had seen bef...

From the New York Times , via University Diaries: In a contentious Feb. 26 deposition between Dr. Biederman and lawyers for the states, he ...

The time: some decades hence. The place: The University of South Jetsonville, a large state university. The Grand Administrator is speaki...

with apologies to Robert Frost White snow driving across a winding road and piled deep on the road unsanded and unplowed. White knuckle...

Like just about everyone else on the blogroll, I am grading and having some Sweeney Todd fantasies about running amok with the red pen. Ap...

"Wow, what a special treat this was for all of us," said Talking Points Memo head blogger Joshua Micah Marshal, who, along with al...

Conferences are the broccoli of travel. Want proof? Although I will dutifully eat broccoli without much enthusiasm for it, some madness c...