Monthly Archives: February 2016

Snow Daze 2: Remote Classes

Posted on February 18, 2016 by smalec

Well, that didn’t take long. In my previous post, I’d written about a big blizzard cancelling my weekly night class, and how my assumption that my students could just read on their own didn’t really work out that well. So … Continue reading →

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Collaboration, Bias, and Tenure

Posted on February 13, 2016 by Beth Malmskog

I was pretty bummed to read this New York Times article about the prospects for women seeking tenure in Economics. In case you don’t have time to read it all right now: in recent study, Economist Heather Sarsons found that … Continue reading →

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Snow Daze

Posted on February 4, 2016 by smalec

Most of the snow is already almost gone; hard to believe that just a week ago some of us were still snowed in. The big blizzard (winter storms don’t deserve first names) dropped three feet of snow in about a … Continue reading →