By Lucy Ferriss. My hunch is that the case of the missing comma began with email. In an earlier post, I talked about a friend’s dilemma over email salutations, wherein the preferred casual “Hi” at the beginning is followed by a person’s name and then a comma, rendering the grammatically standard vocative comma (“Hi, Jane,”) perhaps superfluous and at least funny-looking. More...
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All But Hired: Changing Incentives for Graduate Time-to-Degree
By Travis W. Proctor. If that sounds like a confession you might hear at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, it might as well be. In academic circles, ABD refers to “All But Dissertation,” the stage at which the only thing standing between me and being referred to as “Doctor Proctor” is the daunting task of writing the equivalent of my first research monograph. More...
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Hiring Faculty Members in Groups Can Improve Diversity and Campus Climate
By Chronicle Staff. Report: “Faculty Cluster Hiring for Diversity and Institutional Climate”
Organization: Urban Universities for Health Equity Through Alignment, Leadership, and Transformation of the Health Workforce
Summary: Hiring faculty members in clusters into multiple departments or colleges was originally designed to expand interdisciplinary research. But faculty clusters also have the potential to help diversify a college’s faculty and improve institutional climate. According to the report, the University of Wisconsin at Madison pioneered the practice and has hired nearly 150 faculty members in 48 clusters since 1998. In more recent years, institutions such as North Carolina State University and the University of Illinois at Chicago have followed suit. More...
NSF Freezes Grants to UConn After Professors Bought Equipment From Their Own Company
By Andy Thomason. The National Science Foundation has frozen millions of dollars in grants to the University of Connecticut after auditors found that two professors there used grant money to buy equipment from their own company, The Hartford Courant reports. More...
Duke Student Apologizes for Hanging Noose and Will Be Allowed to Return
By Andy Thomason. A Duke University student has apologized for hanging a noose on the campus last month, and will be allowed to return to the college next semester, The News & Observer reports. The undergraduate, whose identity has not been revealed, wrote in a letter of apology that the noose stemmed from a “lack of cultural awareness and joking personality.” More...