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• Post on Substack:  What I tell students about me, my mental health and the evironment I try to create in the classroom (July 14 2025)
• Post on Substack: Teaching is extraordinarily meaningful work (7/13/2025)
• Post on Substack-  An absence appreciated on Lake Jeannette (7/9/2025)
• Post on Substack- University Athletics, the House Settlement, and Student Fees: Should student fees support compensation for student-athletes? (7/07/2025)
• Post is on Substack: Speeding down the slope into the wall of irrevelance: 
  Am I a fool at this late date? (7?04/2025)
• Post on Substack- Why spending your honeymoon in bed is not always a good thing
  a wedding story. (7/04/2025)
• Reflections on the endurance test I love and hate at the same time: Graduation (6/1/2025)
• Be a Tree. Stay Forever Young. My 2025 graduation remarks, that are mostly songs (5/10/2025)
• Getting hit by your own boomerang: reciprocal appreciation (3/13/2025)
• Fatigue and Neurodiversity (3/9/2025)
• It's Official: Phasing out, ushering in (3/3/2025)
• I could be busy saving lives if I weren't panicking over F&A (2/20/2024)
• Carnegie Classifications: The New Lake Wobegon (2/18/2025)
• Responding to Flattery from Artificial Intelligence (2/13/2025)
• Running from the sky: Darkness Visible (12/16/2024)
• If I can find hope in the fading light..(12/14/2024)
• Fiction in the Space Between III: A Reaction to an excellent story in the Chronicle of Higher Education and The Assembly NC (8/28/2024)
• Fiction in the space between II: you use data but it doesn't mean, you're not just telling stories (July 25, 2024)
• July 1 2024- an absence appreciated (7/2/2024)
• They call it paradise, I don't know why. If you call someplace paradise, must you kiss it goodbye? (6/17/2024)
• Fiction in the Space Between (6/12/2024)
• Reflections on the last day of classes and words from the provost and the chancellor (4/25/2024)
• The UNCG Faculty voted no confidence in the Provost: How did the chancellor respond? (3/14/2023)
• Short Response to the UNCG Chancellor's email regarding the budget situation. (3/12/2024)
• Chancellor's Response on March 8th: who put a fence around common ground? (3/8/2024)
• Why I will vote yes on the resolution(s) expressing no confidence in the provost's leadership (2/20/24)
• Warriors for change vs the armies of the status quo: this narrative has to change. (2/12/2024)
• Universities fear for the future. Leadership fears the wisdom of those inside (a song) (2/02/2024)
• A case study in how not to lead change: UNCG's Academic Portfolio Review (rpk style) (2/1/2024)
• Structural Budget Deficits vs. Actual Deficits (1/10/2024)
• “It is time we face reality, my friends, that we are not exactly rocket scientists: the ballad of academic portfolio review”- 11/29/2023

 

• “Moral of the story:  UNCG students leave me in awe! You should try to recruit them for jobs and/or graduate school! (with a forward)” 11/5/2023

 

• “What is a best practice for reviewing academic programs? An empirical study using Google suggests it is not Academic Portfolio Reviews” 10/27/2023

 

• “Narrative: higer ed needs disrupted; resistance to change (mostly faculty) is the problem. Reality: higher ed will be disrupted when an organization figures out how to do so” 9/27/2023

 

• “Another reason why faculty matter: do the math” 9/13/2023

 

• “A note to graduate students regarding some  reflections about the UNC-CH tragedy: using a mirror reflecting back to me an image of my world of mental health challenges.” 8/31/2023

 

• “What you say and what others here: advice for the Fall Semester” 8/5/2023

 

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• Kayaking the waves of technological and academic change, without a paddle. (5/23/2023).

 

• The New UNC budget model- a red herring?-Chancellor Gilliam, we need you. (5/1/2023)

 

• Tobacco, Cottonwood, and student research:  A tale starting at my beginning as an independent scientist boomeranging back in the homestretch of my career. (4/16/2023)

 

• "It's Time for Time" part 2: Why do I feel so guilty and frustrated about protecting time? (4/1/2023)

 

• “My email conversation with a consultant.” (3/20/2023).

 

• “An open letter to the UNCG faculty senate and to faculty colleagues: it's time to pay attention” (1/27/2023)

 

• “A Yin/Yang day: a 50th anniversary and 2nd anniversary of major transitions in my life” (12/22/2022)

 

• “Grades don't define your flight path” (12/10/2023).

 

• A Devil's Marathon and the Academic Rhythm (12/10/2023)

 

• The holidays aren't always fun and restorative (12/10/2022)

 

• Who cares about what is in a University video?  Believe it, or not, I do. (12/05/2022).

 

• “The academic rhythm is beautiful, but it has its melancholy moments.” (11/30/2022).

 

• “Tribalism trumps (no pun intended)” (11/13/2022)

 

• " I voted today-- a lot went through my mind” (10/26/2022)
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• Tales from my journey from faculty to senior administrator and back again: what matters? (10/12/2022).

 

• “Reality vs. Reflection” (10/12/2022)

 

• “Free Will Astrology and Writing Songs of Praise” (9/30/2022)

 

• “Reflections on 1 Tishri 5783” (9/26/2022)

 

• “The connections and feedbacks between anxiety, decisions, Brownian motion, time, opportunity & transactions costs, and maneuvering through a crisis” (9/16/2022).

 

• “Welcome Back! My satirical spoof on a Fall welcome message.” 8/16/2022

 

• “It’s Time for Time!” (8/10/2022)

 

• “The power of friendships across backgrounds: another muse on a David Brooks column” (8/05/2022)

 

• “Why do many public universities obfuscate the costs of doing externally sponsored research?” (8/1/2022)

 

• “Time: a limited or infinite resource?” (7/08/2022)

 

• “My peeve about how my university (and many others) report research success in research funding: Why do we have to mislead people?” (7/20/2022)

 

• “Something I learned from my dog and didn't understand until years later: don't punish a social animal by throwing them out of the pack” (7/13/2022)

 

• “When will we ever learn?” (7/11/2022).

 

• “A short response to Holden Thorp's editorial on inclusive teaching” (7/11/2022)

 

• “The Great Faculty Disengagement: comments on a Chronicle of Higher Education Article” (7/11/2022)

 

• “Thank you, David Brooks: Caring matters” (7/11/2022)

 

• “PODCAST: Discussion of the Land Grant Mission with written thoughts about how I am beginning to think that higher ed has lost its way (a work in progress)” (6/11/2022)

 
“I discuss leadership, an ecosystem model for a University, and an ecosystem test for making resource allocation decisions with Dean Matt Waller of the Walton College of Business at U. Arkansas” (6/11/2022)