Opinion

William Major writes that he can't imagine punishing or rewarding a student for political reasons. But he wonders how much grades may be determined by whether professors like or dislike students.

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A new correspondent writes: I'm a postdoc at a big research university. We have a confluence of events at our...

By Dean Dad

Norman Maclean, an Aristotelian, learned deeply what Aristotle taught: tragic art is cathartic. Toward the end of his life, he...

By UD

Over the last year or so I've gone to 1 or 2 conferences, taken 1 or 2 training classes, visited...

By G. Rendell

It’s interesting and strange to me how easy it is to sink into a willful belief that the Internet has...

By Oronte

The burgeoning financial pressures on institutions increase the need for them to look for creative ways to make health insurance more affordable, not less, for their students, writes Jon Englund.

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Charles Manning, chancellor of the Tennessee Board of Regents, acknowledged that adjuncts teach a large share of the classes at...

By Dean Dad

This is the time of the school year when many of us are running around looking for people to teach...

By Rosemarie Emanuele