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Time Management and Teaching
As we support Youngest in her transition to university, I’m reminded of how vitally important are all those skills that aren’t only academic, especially the skills of time management. In my own...
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Too Many Books?
Do any of you have advice on how to manage an out-of-control book collection? I’m afraid that I have too many books! When I moved into my current office several years ago, I regarded three walls of...
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Women’s History Week 2015!
If you want to know what’s been consuming my life for much of the past month (besides mountains of marking, a conference presentations and many other responsibilities) it’s Women’s HIstory Week....
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Virtual with a Vengeance
Back in the 1990s, I used to joke that I lived much of my life virtually. When I wasn’t caring for kids or working at the U, I could be found in online forums like those at iVillage and other, even...
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Summertime Re-set
So much has happened in the last two years. . . let me sum up. The good news? I still have a full-time faculty job. The bad news? Too many others don’t. Yes, my university has gone through the...
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My father – himself a long-time academic administrator – had a cartoon he had posted on a bulletin board, featuring several business-suit wearing men, looking more than a bit terrified and bedraggled,...
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