Author: 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 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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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.

Don’t you love it when professors, whatever their own political views, respect the views of others as well?

Only essential spending is allowed when the budget is frozen, but definitions of “essential spending” vary widely.

Greed is a terrible thing. But getting public subsidies so students can be charged more and more . . . well, that’s not so bad.

Let’s see, what are the qualifications for a good college president? These academic mice provide the search committee’s perspective.