{"id":3325,"date":"2011-10-24T17:10:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T23:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3325"},"modified":"2011-10-24T17:11:35","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T23:11:35","slug":"the-50-best-professor-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3325","title":{"rendered":"The 50 Best Professor Blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachingtraining.org\/best-professor-blogs\">found this<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.margaretsoltan.com\/\"><em>University Diaries<\/em><\/a>, which rightly heads the list.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a sample:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/crankyprofessor.com\/\">The Cranky Professor<\/a>: <\/strong> This history professor enjoys using the past to get a rise out of his pupils. That rise takes place more in their aptitude than in their angst.<\/li>\n<li><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefacultylounge.org\/\">The Faculty Lounge<\/a>: <\/strong> When nearly a dozen bright minds collaborate in lively blog writing, the results are always worth the read. The blog focuses on the place of law in current culture.<\/li>\n<li><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irascibleprofessor.com\/\">The Irascible Professor<\/a>: <\/strong> The smiling photo that opens the Irascible Professor&#8217;s page shows him as anything but. All smiles are aside, though, when he focuses on the serious issue of American education.<\/li>\n<li><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/gerardharbison\/blog\/RWP_blog.html\">The Right Wing Professor<\/a>: <\/strong> There&#8217;s nothing wrong in taking a look at a brand new point of view, realized fully. For those unfamiliar with the right, this is an excellent primer.<\/li>\n<li><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/theblogprof.blogspot.com\/\">theblogprof<\/a>: <\/strong> This professor has a special appreciation for religion&#8217;s place in scholarship. Learn more on how spirituality and academics aren&#8217;t so dissimilar.<\/li>\n<li><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toddkashdan.com\/blog.php\">Todd Kashdan<\/a>: <\/strong> A quirky professor brings a bit of needed quirk to his readers&#8217; understanding of world workings here. Posts about serial killers eating lobster have won many fans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this on University Diaries, which rightly heads the list. Here is a sample: The Cranky Professor: This history professor enjoys using the past to get a rise out of his pupils. That rise takes place more in their aptitude than in their angst. 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Here is a typical cover blurb: Two years after a horrible incident made them run away, vampire princess Lissa and her guardian-in-training Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"publishing\"","block_context":{"text":"publishing","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=publishing"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2726,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2726","url_meta":{"origin":3325,"position":2},"title":"Do You Call Your Professor &#8220;Professor&#8221;?","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"June 4, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"How to address your professor, explained at Inside Higher Ed. (This is the American version.) For those who prefer diagrams to prose, go here: \"The Semiotics of Professor E-mail Signatures.\" It goes both ways. Advice to new doctorate-degree holders: Once you have successfully defended your dissertation, after that initial round\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"academia\"","block_context":{"text":"academia","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=academia"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12103,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12103","url_meta":{"origin":3325,"position":3},"title":"We Pagans Are the &#8220;Useful Idiots&#8221;","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"March 19, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Reading Religion, which is a book-review site run by the American Academy of Religion, recently assigned me a book to review: Our Non-Christian Nation: How Atheists, Satanists, Pagans, and Others Are Demanding Their Rightful Place in Public Life. 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