Month: November 2014

I visited a park with a nineteenth century industrial building on it recently and want to use a picture I took there as a trivia question.  For a long time…

Our friends at the University of Cincinnati College of Law have posted information on their search for a new law dean here:  http://www.uc.edu/provost/about-us/searches/law.html.

The University of North Carolina just posted an announcement for our dean search.  It is as follows: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites nominations and applications for…

A friend on Facebook posted a link to a Clickbait Headline Generator  and I found it irresistible. Unfortunately, you can’t plug in your own topic to get the clickbait treatment,…

Over at The Chronicle Review, Laurie Fendrich (professor emerita of art and art history at Hofstra University) has some harsh words here for aging faculty members:  The inconvenient truth is…

Introduction:  I often discuss my TFL posts and the comments thereto with my father, Arthur Frakt.  Dad was a long-time faculty member and Associate Dean at Rutgers-Camden before becoming Dean ...

I'm posting this a bit outside the expertise of our normal readership.  Please share this job announcement with friends who might be interested and qualified.   Although the position description…

I thought I'd look a little at the differences between Brian Leiter's recent on-line survey of faculty quality and the U.S. News rankings.  First an observation about the changes in…

Last evening I was re-reading Grapes of Wrath and was surprised to see that Grandpa Joad died on the day he left the farm.  For some reason I'd thought he'd…