A weekly compilation of interesting, useful, and just plain amusing things I find around the web. Got one I missed! Add it to the comments!
XKCD does a Venn diagram of what college websites have on their home pages and what people go looking for. I’m not sure why I find it so funny, but I really do.
The stereotype of the cushy academic life is fading, but that’s partially because fewer and fewer people get to experience it that way. (subscription required)
The New York Times asked, what if tenure dies? This, unsurprisingly, created a rousing debate. Gabriella Montel rounds up some of the responses. Dean Dad weighs in on the side of abolishing tenure (the comments get quite heated, and he responds in a following post). Timothy Burke argues that tenure has, to all practical purposes, already been abolished.
An academic librarian asks us to answer the “so what” question for research.
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