Alternative academic professions — alt-ac — are "less a matter of where you work than how..."

"'... 'with the same intellectual curiosity that fueled the desire to go to graduate school in the first place and applying the same kin…

How the philosophers discriminate against women with dim lights, drinks, and an informal atmosphere.

At the annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association , "where most philosophy job interviews take place, part of the hiring process w…

"I need to make them look perfect for their family."

"There are no stable jobs anymore."

"Entrepreneurship is like creating a safety net."

"The Liver Mush Wager."

"Be it known that the undersigned (Mary Byrnes and Nate Kreuter) have agreed that liver mush is the most disgusting food product imaginable, and…

"I am continually shocked and dismayed by the nearly Victorian notions promulgated by today’s feminists about the fragility of women and their naïve helplessness..."

"... in asserting control over their own dating lives. Female undergraduates incapable of negotiating the oafish pleasures and perils of campus …

If you graduated from college at age 17, would you go to law school?

The story of Kate McLaughlin, who didn't go straight to law school. She waited until she was 19. So why do we worry about McLaughlin’s decision …

Scalia "worr[ies] that we are devoting too many of our very best minds to [law]."

You're a smart kid. Do you really want to be a lawyer? I mean lawyers, after all, don’t produce anything. They enable other people to produce and…

"Our society has let [children] down by not being supportive of mothers, and even fathers, who dedicate their time and often their lives to their children."

Please read the 3-paragraph-long book passage that I've added to the post about whether Rick Santorum is committed to equality for women . He fig…

"The real issue we have with admitting that college is not a path to the work world is then we have to ask ourselves why we send our kids to high school."

"There is plenty of data to show that teens are able to manage their lives without the constraints of school." The book Escaping the Endles…

"Wall Street Mothers, Stay-Home Fathers/As Husbands Do Domestic Duty, These Women Are Free to Achieve."

"Along the way, the couples have come to question just what is male behavior and female behavior, noting how quickly their preconceived notions …

"We are professionals, we have to dress nice, but we are paid less than kids who work at McDonald’s."

Says Tammy Williams, a woman pictured in a highly sympathetic light of the front page of the NYT today. The article is "Low Pay at Weight Watche…

"[T]he more exquisitely gender-sensitive the school environment became, the less resemblance it bore to the real business world."

"'Are we trying to change the world 900 students at a time, or are we preparing students for the world in which they are about to go?' a…

"I bought a 3,600-square-foot house when I was 19."

"My friends who would come over would wonder when my parents were coming home. 'No, they’re never coming home,' I said to them. 'Thi…

"The most relaxing part of most people's day is when they are on the job."

"This is across gender, across education level, across occupation level... So, a pretty strong finding." More here : Mothers who work full …

"Another article about an top-tier MBA-grad that is supposed to represent millennial women?"

"What, you couldn't find a Yale Law School grad to further support your thesis? While it is interesting for approximately one second to cont…

"The best way to eliminate grade inflation is to take professors out of the grading process..."

"... Replace them with professional evaluators who never meet the students, and who don't worry that students will punish harsh grades with …

"Over the past few years, many women’s social media feeds have morphed from photos of kids and pets into endless posts by friends peddling everything under the sun..."

"... makeup, skin care, candles, essential oils, hormone gel patches, leggings, tote bags, juice powders, nontoxic cleaning products, whitening …

"U.S. pushes for more scientists, but the jobs aren’t there."

"Although jobs in some high-tech areas, especially computer and petroleum engineering, seem to be booming, the market is much tighter for lab-bo…

"The Case for $320,000 Kindergarten Teachers."

Great headline. Justified by the text? The crucial problem the study had to solve was the old causation-correlation problem. Are children who do we…