Opinion

For all the frustrations students sometimes give their professors, Christopher Phelps writes of the way some of them inspire.

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This is really an exercise in idea-stealing, rather than a developed thought. Have you seen (or do you work at)...

By Dean Dad

I can explain later (or not), but I'm quite serious. Please answer the following: John or Paul, and why?

By Oronte

Leonard V. Kaplan, a faculty member who was ensnared in a controversy over remarks he says were misreported, reflects on the larger issues for academe raised by the fracas.

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Paul has said, famously, that the song “Yesterday” came to him in a dream. It was so complete that he...

By Oronte

The colleges considering leaving the NCAA’s nonscholarship competitive level risk hurting their institutions and turning off students, W. Kent Barnds writes.

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This week I ran into another of those "the policies make sense, but the application is silly" scenarios. A wonderful...

By Dean Dad

This is a dirty little industry secret. In some necks of the woods -- moneyed ones, especially -- this is...

By Dean Dad