http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpq1yZOrtYA Update 10/24: An uncut, extended version has been leaked:
Just came across this: The Blogging Scholarship. Funded by College Scholarships, this is an annual award that provides college student bloggers up to “$10,000 to help pay for books, tuition, or other living costs.” Full or part-time students eligible. The 2007 deadline has just passed (see the 20 finalists, which have blogs on a…
When it is a writing space: Office door of Columbia University professor, Madonna G. Constantine: A hangman’s noose was found pinned to the door of an African-American professor’s door at Teacher’s College, administrators wrote in an e-mail today. The noose was discovered this morning and was reported to the New York City Police Department’s…
A rather sobering article (subscription required) in the Chronicle’s The Academic Life provides portraits of the financial realities of the profession. A selection: When Catherine A. Milton moved back to her parents’ home to finish her dissertation, she didn’t imagine that she would stay for seven years. While living at their Connecticut home, she…