The content industry has come out barreling after the failure of their pet bills, SOPA and Protect IP. Carey Sherman writes with real feeling in his NYT Op-Ed Column last week, and the movie industry, with its representative Alfred P. Perry, has reached out in a softer mode to legal scholars, many of whom have criticized either, or both, these industries and current U.S. Copyright law.
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February 10, 2012 - 3:00am
The federal government could create small savings accounts for every newborn child, and change the equation on paying for college, write Reid Cramer and William Elliott III.
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February 9, 2012 - 3:00am
W. Joseph King and Michael Nanfito look to 18th-century Japan for a possible model for the future, non-institutional role of the professor.
February 8, 2012 - 3:00am
A new book series offers polemics against prominent figures -- including an influential academic turned politician. Scott McLemee casts his vote.
February 7, 2012 - 3:00am
Given the corrupting influence of rankings, there is no cause for surprise by what happened at Claremont McKenna, writes William D. Adams. What the incident should inspire is a collective stand.
February 6, 2012 - 3:00am
The gaming of citation index measures has Gaye Tuchman wondering about how professors value themselves and their work.
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Wick Sloane, who writes the Devil's Workshop column for Inside Higher Ed, has embedded himself at Bunker Hill Community College.
Essayist, critic, and digital feuilletonist. He writes the Intellectual Affairs column for Inside Higher Ed.
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Technology and Learning
February 12, 2012 - 7:30pm
Thank you Barbara Fister for your excellent review of David Weinberger's Too Big To Know, and to William Badke, Matthew Loving, Steven Paschold, Carl Hess, and Theron Snell for continuing the conversation about this terrific book.
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February 12, 2012 - 3:52pm
On Friday, February 3rd, I was waiting for the economic update. The jobs picture is a key indicator (even though it is considered a lagging indicator) of economic recovery, and I was looking to see if there were tangible signs that a real and perhaps more robust recovery was underway. But even though I was tuned into the economy, my greatest attention was focused on the decision by the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation decision to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood.
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February 03, 2012
For all the hubbub about massive online classes offered by elite universities, the real potential game-changer in higher education is competency-based learning, writes Ryan Craig.
A techno-phobe professor at U of All People experiments with the iPhone's voice-activated assistant -- and the results aren't pretty. David Galef surveys the damage.
February 02, 2012
Historians look back at the 2008 election in a new book. Scott McLemee registers his impressions.
February 01, 2012
Michael Bérubé reflects on the first national meeting of an organization fighting for academics off the tenure track.
January 31, 2012
William Bradley considers how students treat professors these days, and how he treated the professors he revered in college.
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