Not of General Interest

Figure 1. Orson Welles, wunderkind. At a conference recently, I talked to a few people about their careers and about the wall of writing...

Oh, Chronicle, Chronicle, Chronicle. You brought up this "no faculty offices" idea in 2010. I guess you figured it was time to rev...

All across the country, academics are saying "there, that's done!," turning in grades, looking up, stretching their arms, an...

What familiar person or character has the following traits? lies constantly and often, saying impulsively whatever makes him look better a...

1. So, Undine, what are you going to tell anyone who asks about your summer plans? There's a million things I haven't done, but ...

Can you stand another post about grading? I was struck by something making the Twitter rounds a few weeks ago. Someone (can't find the...

What do you mean it's only Tuesday? Academic Lesson 1. Will work for food, or less. Did you hear the one about the university that i...

Oft I have travelled in the realms of gold. Or maybe just traveled. And then traveled some more. But recently everything feels out of cont...

1. Call for papers comes out.  "That looks so interesting, and the conference is in a cool place!  I have to submit something. Do I h...

 Well, let's see what we've learned in the past few weeks. 1. At InsideHigherEd.com, we get our annual confirmation that "fem...

The things that you learn about writing and about yourself accrue over time, don't they? Figure 1. The Abbey he's actually not a...

Figure 1. If you're not watching The Good Place, you should be. I've mentioned before that I'm part of a collaborative proje...

 Xykademiqz's interesting post on her MBTI type has me thinking about how personality or certain traits or however you want to define i...

We're getting good at keeping track of time, my little black notebook and I.  Yes, it took me 7 hours to do that administrative task. ...

A while back, before the endless year of 2017, we were talking about keeping track of time (me and these happy few, this band of sisters on...

What was memorable?  New York City! How can you not love going to NY? Maybe it's different if you already live there or near there, bu...

Random resolutions, updated for what I hope will be a focused year. If I can't sit still in the morning but have laser-like focus to w...

A popular meme on Twitter these days is to state three things that you accomplished this year. Everyone is posting about prizes won, book co...

Update 3/11/18: Jesse Stommel (below), in a thoughtful post, explains what he means by "ungrading": written evaluation and reflect...

At The Atlantic, Bryan Caplan says "The World Might Be Better Off Without College for Everyone." ( https://www.theatlantic.com/mag...