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‘English Universities in Crisis’
Authors discuss new book on what they see as dangerous trends for higher education in Britain.
‘Commuter Spouses’
Author discusses her new book on couples -- in academe and other fields -- who can't find jobs in the same location.
Opinion
Authentic Problems
Scott McLemee reviews Maria Francesca Piazzoni's The Real Fake: Authenticity and the Production of Space.
One Discipline's Soaring Publishing Expectations
It's not just you: sociology's publishing expectations have doubled in recent decades, by some measures, and that threatens research ingenuity, according to one study.
The Beginning of the End for the 'Big Deal'?
Inspired by University of California’s decision to drop its “big deal” with Elsevier, university librarians are laying the foundation to follow suit.
Opinion
Digital Divides
Scott McLemee reviews two books about our networked society that raise rather dystopian concerns.
‘Alternative Universities’
Author discusses his new book on "speculative" alternatives for higher education.
Opinion
Net Rupture
Scott McLemee reviews Manuel Castells's Rupture: The Crisis of Liberal Democracy.