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Scott McLemee interviews Barbara Ehrenreich about the professional-managerial class, psychobabble and the desperate hunger of adjunct professors.

Shari Wilson explores the all-too-common ways that some instructors frustrate their students.

Scott McLemee takes a quick look at commentary on Hurricane Katrina ... muttering audibly, the whole time.

When colleges define offensive speech as a "threat," they devalue real threats and freedom of expression, write Greg Lukianoff and Azhar Majeed.

There are lots of reasons to complain about how the press handles books. Scott McLemee wants to do more than complain.

What is the role of academe as the U.S. government tackles foreign dangers without sufficient attention to the values of democracy? And how does this relate to the way colleges pay professors? A view from 1948.

In my work as Oregon’s college evaluator, I am often asked why state approval is not "as good as accreditation"...

Bruce G. Murphy says students and professors need to reclaim time -- and that to do that, we need to rethink the purpose of a college education.