On December 1, 2022, toward the end of my first semester teaching on the tenure track, my husband Andrew died of brain cancer at the age of 31. His 15-month illness began suddenly with a seizure, ...

T he campus novel, as a postwar genre, was established by Mary McCarthy’s The Groves of Academe. Bilious and blade-witted, the 1952 novel mocks the low, claustrophobic stakes of faculty politics at a ...

Google Calendar: A versatile calendar app for scheduling classes, assignments, and events to keep your academic life organized. Todoist: A powerful to-do list app that helps you prioritize tasks and ...

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College readiness is on the decline among incoming traditional-aged students, creating new challenges for colleges and universities to support student retention and completion. Research from EAB and ...

In American higher education, freedom is often a flag flown high; freedom of inquiry, thought and speech are indispensable to the life of the mind. Yet, as I have seen across decades in the academy, ...

For the first 18 years of my life, my self-worth depended solely on academics. I aimed for straight A’s and let nothing get in my way. Anything less than 90% on assignments sent me into an existential ...

In addition to consultations with our professional staff, our department offers peer academic coaches to guide and support you on your academic journey. Peer academic coaches are trained to assist you ...