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Cap'n Crunch Fried Chicken
I first tasted this chicken at the Fox River Brewing Company in Appleton, Wisconsin in 2003ish. I don't even know why I tried it. It sounds kind of gimmicky, too sweet and gross. But I did....and I...
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proFasks
Thank you for all of your answers - here is a sampling of the responses to our latest proFasks - please keep your comments coming...we love to hear from you!Do you use the campus gym?I do not use the...
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The Cost of “Free” Speech: Dispatch from Charlottesville
“This generation has a rendezvous with destiny.”– Franklin D. Roosevelt, Acceptance Speech for Renomination for the Presidency, 1936 Photo: Bob Mical, FlickrAs a law student at the University of...
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Seeking Human Connection: A Review of Tom Perrotta’s Mrs. Fletcher
With the beginning of the new semester only a few weeks away and my last summer course over, I treated myself to Tom Perrotta's latest book, Mrs. Fletcher. I have read the majority of his works,...
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Flamingo Fashion Makes a Comeback
My sweet little sassy three-year-old niece dressed as a flamingo last year for Halloween. Little did she know, she was making a fashion statement. This season, I have noticed the pink-feathered birds...
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My Superpower has become my Kryptonite
If you are like me, you’ve taken dozens of personality tests, be they for work, general interest or even those “super scientific” ones you find on social media – for some reason, I am kind of curious...
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Returning Emails Too Often During the Day? There Are Consequences.
I’ll begin with a confession. When I’m up at four in the morning suffering from insomnia, the first thing I do is grab my phone and check email – all my email accounts. More often than not, I find...
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Returning to old friends: proFile of Jyotika Saksena
One of the things I have loved most about my academic career is meeting women from around the world. This was particularly the case in graduate school, when many of the women in my classrooms were...
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Signs Your Children Returned to College
The kitchen has been cleaned all day.All of your cars now fit in the driveway.There are enough clothes hangers in the house.The dog has been cuddling by you all day.No one has attempted to change the...
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Return of the Trends
It is interesting what trends return and what trends never come back (thankfully). Sure, you can live with making a bad fashion choice, but some of the fashion trends we are photographed in can make us...
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10 TV Shows to Stream for Back-to-School Vibes
Like it or not, the school year’s coming fast. We’re all ramping up our busy schedules, and whether you’re a student, faculty or staff member, or even a parent of a student, the end of August can get a...
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New Study Shows Impact of Gender Norms on Major Selection
While the numbers of women enrolling in universities continues to grow, and we are increasingly visible in previously male-centric fields such as STEM, higher education is still a hotbed of gender...
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Addressing Student Hunger on Campus
Kimberly Yavorski’s recent post for The Progressive, “Going Hungry on Campus: Students and States Turn to Food Stamps,” raises an important issue as we welcome students back on campus. Yavorski...
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The Male ProFspective
I was born a male chauvinist. It's not something that I'm terribly proud of, and it's way more complicated than it sounds. First of all, I might be giving myself more credit than I deserve. My father...
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College Classrooms as Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Glass Doors
In discussing the importance of children's literature written by and about underrepresented groups, Rudine Sims Bishop uses three metaphors: books as mirrors, books as windows, and books as sliding...
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Campus Can Be a Lonely Place, But You Are Not Alone
I recently read Frank Bruni’s column in The New York Times about The Real Campus Scourge – loneliness. Having lived and worked on college campuses for over thirty years, I agree that despite being...
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Fall for Fall
It’s here. For me, the best season of the year has arrived. The months of September through November bring such nostalgia – the gathering of friends, the sound of drums at football games, the...
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Listen: Emerging Female Voices in Rock Music
Christina Halladay of Sheer Mag Over the past decade or so, I’ve noticed a shift in my music consumption. I’ve always been an avid record-buyer (mostly within that nebulous genre known as “indie...
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proF Female Firsts: Mary Lyon and Sophia Smith, Pioneers of Women’s Education
Sophia Smith, founder of Smith College, once wrote, “It is not my design to render my sex any the less feminine, but to develop as fully as may be the powers of womanhood & furnish women with means...
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Everything Was Great Until I Read the Comments: Emotional Labor in Higher Ed.
Julie Shayne’s recent post for Inside Higher Ed, “Recognizing Emotional Labor in Academe,”calls for institutions and fellow faculty to recognize professors who do emotional labor. She describes this as...
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