Opinion

Thank goodness national Get Organized Month is half over. Scott McLemee takes a look at a new book on the uses of disorder.

By Scott McLemee

Having just returned from an academic conference, I know the rigors of professional travel. I boarded the plane in Philly...

By Oronte

It's time for both departments and professors to be serious about nurturing faculty careers, write Michael Bugeja and Lee Wilkins.

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John B. Simpson reflects on what's valid and what's oversimplified in a year of reports criticizing higher education.

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When's the last time you listened to the entire "I Have a Dream" speech? Also, here's a site that proposes...

By Oronte

Half-baked thoughts, then, toward an AWP presentation that won’t be: Jokes, the good Dr. Freud said famously, are often “hostile.”...

By Oronte

Shifting from graduate student to professor, Alex Golub thinks about how one answers a common academic question.

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I tried to put a panel session together for the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference in Atlanta this...

By Oronte