Category: academic mice

How to handle the tour question about cheating? This academic mouse tour guide gives it a try.

Every research university has them: administrators who are supposed to facilitate grant applications, but mostly just slow them down. These administrators are in a tough position. The grant process can be abused, and they have the look out for irregularities. But to honest researchers, the administrators are obstructionists who end up hogging the credit when grants come in.

One of our academic mice puts up a yard sign in three languages, but what does it say?

“academic mice” is a light-hearted strip about academic life that I draw. New contributions are sporadic at best, but I hope you enjoy what’s here (simultaneously posted to Facebook)!

If you’re a good academic mouse, you never look at your student ratings on ratemyprofessors.com — or at least you don’t let on.

One of our academic mice condescends to write columns for the local newspaper, to educate the ignorant townies. They mystery is why they don’t appreciate it.

The academic mice who run Mice U. nurture a wide range of political speech, but not too wide.

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So this is history now, but: On September 2, 2010 “academic mice” debuted in print in The Breeze, the student newspaper of James Madison University. It had a weekly one-year run and then became a (sporadically updated) web comic. At debut time there was a nice feature article about the cartoon and cartoonist. All the coverage is copyright (c) 2010 by The Breeze.

No, we don’t discriminate in admissions, for some definitions of “discriminate.”

Discrimination is allowable only to remedy past injustice, as the academic mice explore in this strip.