Academic freedom and Michael Bérubé
Today, Michael Bérubé’s blog has an important essay on academic freedom. At several thousand words, it’s considerably longer than most blog entries (such as this one), even from loquacious professors. And while I have a few minor quibbles, they’re very close to my views, and, more importantly, he wrote them first. Kudos. Go read.
Historical Statistics of the U.S.
Robert Samuelson’s discussion of the new Historical Statistics of the United States says that there is an online version where access can be purchased by libraries (presumably so members of universities can use the materials). I hope so, because otherwise the volumes will be largely underutilized.
The critical mass of information…
A former student of mine has a blog where she occasionally puts things down in free verse (something I needed an explanation of … clueless me when she was an English grad student, right?). This morning, I responded with a sonnet. Awful, of course, but since her entry was vaguely about the problems of learning […]
Shadowing
I have a student from my alma mater shadowing me next week. While I wish my schedule allowed me to attend a candidate’s presentation on Tuesday, I think the rest of the week has enough things to give her a sense of what one professor’s life is like. I have the next Education Policy Analysis […]
On tap this weekend
By Sherman Dorn on January 28, 2006
The tradeoffs of scheduling your own time: my son’s after-care situation has been deteriorating (or maybe at a steady-state mediocre quality), and until a new after-care can open in early March, I’ve decided to pick him up early as many days a week as I can (which is the majority). I’m very relieved to have […]
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