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What Jasper’s Not
I just ran across our list of names that Jasper ended up not being. We might still draw on these at some point (future children, dogs, projects, robots, servers, etc.). But for now, here were some that made the short list: Malachi, Duncan, Quinlan, Alaric, Hudson, Alistair, Declan, Xavier, Huxley, Lucien. And ones that got […]
Hello, world
Jasper Lyle Campbell Halavais, welcome to the world. (Lesson one, your dad sucks with a camera.)
A farewell to academia
There is a scathing elegiac on modern higher ed written by a departing mid-career professor that appears in Inside HigherEd. After too many years at this job (I am in my mid-40s), I have grown to question higher education in ways that cannot be rectified by a new syllabus, or a sabbatical, or, heaven forbid, […]
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