Opinion

A new correspondent writes: I'm currently a sixth year graduate student in the Molecular Biology department at [Major Research University]...

By Dean Dad

Recent steps to help low-income students afford summer positions are nice, says Anthony Paletta, but colleges should go further: by minimizing the value they place on internships.

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According to this blurb in IHE, Career Education Corp is shutting down nine of its campuses, all in the Northeast...

By Dean Dad

Let's consider two recent, related pieces in the University of Miami newspaper. The first announces the appearance, in selected classrooms...

By UD

Psst. Hey! Lean in a second. Come closer. Closer still. Please tune in Wednesday, when there'll be a simultaneous ChurmFest...

By Oronte

It’s funny, how sometimes the best way to understand big issues in big, complex, institutional contexts is to solve little...

By G. Rendell

Barbara Fister sees common issues -- and reasons for scholars to pay closer attention -- in the debates over Facebook privacy, Google's library project, and the relationship between academics, libraries and journals.

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A befuddled correspondent writes: I'm an adjunct with a Ph.D. and plenty of upper level experience via a former full-time...

By Dean Dad