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Clearing the Shrapnel
Gender-based discrimination in the academic workplace isn’t always overt, but the “shrapnel” of small indignities stays with you. That’s the premise of a new book on this kind of bias, and how to alleviate it.
Opinion
He Said, She Said
In each of two new novels, Loner and Diary of an Oxygen Thief, it is the narrator's attitude that sticks with the reader more than the events recounted, writes Scott McLemee.
'The Uberfication of the University'
Author discusses new book on the relationship between the "sharing economy" and the erosion of faculty rights.
The Future of Educational Materials
Sept. 19, 2016 -- "The Future of Educational Materials and the Role of the College Bookstore," the new print-on-demand compendium...
Indiana's Grand Textbook Compromise
Better service, lower prices, higher profits. Indiana U may have found a textbook acquisition model that makes everyone happy.
Opinion
On the Offbeat
A legendary American miracle worker claimed to read books without opening them -- a trick researchers have just pulled off in the lab. Scott McLemee looks from inside a lattice of coincidences.
What Students Really Think
A new book by undergraduates at Michigan State offers teaching advice based on thousands of comments from students starting with the prompt, 'To my professor...'
Digital Education, the 'Mainstream Orthodoxy'
New book examines how technology is changing education -- and whether that change is for the better.