Opinion

Sustainability’s a huge topic. And higher education is an industrial sector not renowned for the agility of its participants. So...

By G. Rendell

I was watching the BBC yesterday afternoon when they cut in with breaking news of the shootings at Northern Illinois...

By Oronte

Andrew Ross questions the motives and assumptions behind the push by American universities to open campuses abroad.

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Every parent's nightmare happened again, this time at NIU. My condolences to the students, faculty, and families there. It's scary...

By Dean Dad

Valentine's Day. Time to pull out your Shakespeare's Sonnets, choose one to type up in a fancy font for that...

By Robert Matz

A regular reader writes: A probationary faculty member in my college plagiarized his entire statement of teaching philosophy in his...

By Dean Dad

Evidence of UD's still-throbbing 'sixties sensibility. A list that will be added to as UD thinks of more stuff. 1.]...

By UD

A column by a British (sometime-) academic may point the way toward research opportunities for American universities. George Monbiot has...

By G. Rendell