Welcome to this week's Week in Review! If you have your own link or suggestion, please add it to the comments, or email it to Tom or Mike. From Tom Historic Bible pages put online (BBC News, July 6, 2009): Check out "virtual re-unification" about 800 pages of the 1,600-year-old Codex Sinaiticus manuscript, i.e., the earliest surviving Christian Bible, at www.codexsinaiticus.org. Is it a The rival to the Bible (BBC News, Roger Bolton, October 6, 2008)? Is Having More Than 2 Children an Unspoken Taboo? (Robin … [Read more...] about Week in Review
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Children, universities, and hard decisions
Tomorrow, I'm leaving for our Midwest Faculty Conference, featuring John Sommerville as our plenary speaker. (Check out my quick review of his book, The Decline of the Secular University, as well as his latest essay in the Chronicle, "Universities Are Corporatized Because They Are Secularized".) Since starting these summer faculty conferences a few years ago, we've tried to make them times of refreshment - for both faculty and their entire family. Our planning team even coined a new word for these events - … [Read more...] about Children, universities, and hard decisions
Location and Academia
There is a good blog post at Inside Higher Ed today about the struggle between commitment to a particular place and the realities of the academic job climate. Dana Campbell writes that she and her husband (both from the West Coast) assumed that their time on the East Coast would be temporary, and that even their faculty appointments in Maryland would be short. She continues: … [Read more...] about Location and Academia