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Scenes From a Vacation

And...we're back. A few vignettes from the last week: The Girl was so happy that she started each morning with...
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Are American Scientists an Endangered Species?

Marc Zimmer offers a new way of looking at a crisis facing American colleges and universities.
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Scathing Online Schoolmarm

A vain man struggles with the threat to his self-importance that student evaluations represent. His writing, in the New York...
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How We Become Men

We’ll be traveling for a few days, and I expect my posts to be intermittent next week, so here’s a...
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Time for a Wartime Higher Ed Tax Policy

Will colleges and universities yield on new buildings for funds to keep low-income students in school and help veterans go to college? Wick Sloane asks.
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'Dude, You're a Fag'

"There's a faggot over there! There's a faggot over there! Come look!" Brian, a senior at "River" High School yelled...
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Sarko and 'Sixty-Eight

The Greek government has once again given up efforts to prod that country'sdead university system to life - violent street...
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Casaubon on Viagra

The cliché of the absent-minded, asexual professor is dead. Scott McLemee looks at "the new academic stereotype."