Evan Matthew Cobb
EVAN MATTHEW COBB
Casualization trend is bad for higher ed

I’ve arrived at the end of the sixth year, and I know the Dean’s Office hopes it is my last. In the Graduate School of […]

April 26, 2007

EVAN MATTHEW COBB
Grad schools face greater troubles than time

Graduate School Dean Jon Butler has called on all departments to conduct reviews of their Ph.D. programs as part of the “2-4 Project.” The review […]

October 18, 2006

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We’re back from the holiday season, students have shopped until they dropped and my class has sufficient enrollment to continue, so I’m a happy camper. […]

January 27, 2006

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Year 6: Yale and the half-loved grad student

The literary event of the summer was without question the release of “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.” For my part, I dodged the late-night […]

September 14, 2005

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On two ways of serving the nation

Leafing through my copy of the most recent Yale Alumni Magazine, I arrived at an interview with President Levin about the role of university presidents […]

April 1, 2005

EVAN MATTHEW COBB
Yale’s books don’t add up for teachers

Yale’s recently released 2003-2004 Financial Report proclaims that “no other major university is taking a more sweeping look at how administration can contribute to the […]

January 14, 2005

EVAN MATTHEW COBB
Grad students work in class

Imagine my surprise Friday morning as I was preparing to teach my class when I came across Jessamyn Blau’s column (“Now hiring: Koffee Too? but […]

September 7, 2004