By Amy Cavender. Email. For many of us, it’s a big part of our daily lives. (Be sure to see Natalie’s post from last week about helpful ways to think about email.) Given that, it’s important to be able to access and process email in ways that work efficiently for us. More...
By Allan Metcalf. Say the magic word, and it’s yours.By Ben Yagoda. In the slim annals of professorial humor, one of the cherished entries concerns an anthropological linguistics conference where the speaker declaims, “In languages all over the globe, one finds examples of the double negative denoting affirmation, but never the double positive denoting negation.” At which point a guy in the back of the room stands up and says, “Yeah, sure.” More...By Lucy Ferriss. Gender neutrality, however loudly announced in official pronouncements or in the news, creeps into our own set of norms on little cat feet. In my case, I realized it had made another inroad when I was settling in at a symphony performance and heard the voice over the loudspeaker: Ladies and Gentlemen, please silence your cellphones and other electronic devices. More...By William Germano. Why have weather when you could have an event?By Geoffrey Pullum. I was browsing an article about tomato production in the Sacramento Bee (as one does) when my eye lighted upon the phrase ongoing plethora. It struck me as an oddly inept locution. More...
By Chronicle Staff. Report: “NASFAA Task Force Report: Servicing Issues”Organization: National Association of Student Financial Aid AdministratorsBy Chronicle Staff. Report: “Quality Assurance in Other Sectors: Lessons for Higher Education Reformers”Author: Kevin J. James, a research fellow in the American Enterprise Institute’s Center on Higher Education ReformBy Peter Schmidt. The National Labor Relations Board on Tuesday ordered its regional officials to reconsider labor disputes involving proposed adjunct-faculty unions at three Roman Catholic colleges in light of its December decision clearing the way for such a union at Pacific Lutheran University. More...By Andy Thomason. A bill making its way through the Kansas Legislature would prohibit professors at public institutions from being identified by their titles in newspaper opinion articles about an elected official, a candidate, or an issue being dealt with by a state public body./https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
