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This week the senate elections committee issued its annual call for nominations for the myriad university committees that are either elected by the faculty as a whole or by the senate. Immediately afterward, that sound you heard was the cry … Continue reading →

The Hartford Courant‘s article from the weekend about how excessive CCSU-related partying is mildly annoying destroying the Belvedere neighborhood in New Britain does not–I repeat, does not!–refer to our house. The confusion’s understandable: . . . a surge in party-related … Continue reading →

Be sure to check out the article on Twitter in the Chronicle this week (permalink | free short-term link) , which features a cameo appearance by your humble blogger.  (Personal interest aside, Jeff does a good job explaining Twitter for … Continue reading →

You *may* not be done with your paper on King Solomon’s Mines if the first sentence includes this parenthetical: (INSERT NAMES OF WHITE MEN) Apparently using all caps isn’t always a sufficient reminder-to-self . . .  

A is on the board of directors of the preschool our son attends, which has been . . . interesting.  Apparently, the last time the inspectors (I think attached to this program, which gave the preschool a nice grant this … Continue reading →

A very long time ago, I wrote a column for InsideHigherEd.com arguing that assessment isn’t just makework; done right, it can provide useful information to departments and other interested parties about what students actually learn.  By coincidence, Horace wrote a … Continue reading →

This probably only funny because I saw it after walking to campus through 11 degree weather on a particularly gusty morning, but I did enjoy this typo: A screening of this video is what was meant, though it is amusing … Continue reading →

Remember Sandy, the nifty e-mail personal assistant from Values of N? (Not just e-mail, of course: You can also send commands to Sandy via Twitter.) If you’ve been holding off on giving the service a try because you already have … Continue reading →

Look at this: The 1937 version of King Solomon’s Mines, with Paul Robeson as Umbopa! Streaming right to your desktop . . .

My column at Bookslut this month has a slightly misleading title: I’m not really against dream interpretation in psychoanalysis, but I do think it is widely misunderstood.  As far as I can tell, the point of interpreting dreams is not … Continue reading →