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Who Gets Bumped?

A steady stream of reports from faculty groups warns of the consequences of having too large a share of sections...

Making Adjuncts Temps -- Literally

Last year, a small community college in Michigan considered a plan to stop employing adjuncts and to have a temporary...

A Major Push on Advising

In an effort to improve its disappointing retention rates, Portland State University will increase its team of academic advisers from...

Control of a Beloved Book

Some in academic publishing think the latest twist in the story of Black Elk Speaks amounts to poetic justice. Others...

Sex, Journalism and Censorship

Student sex journalism is one of those topics that tend to arise in the context of controversy -- the sort...

Putting It to Provosts

CHICAGO -- Like many advocacy groups, higher education associations are notoriously self-referential (if not self-reverential). They're quick to promote the...
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Letting Go

Diana Chapman Walsh writes about the decision to retire from a college presidency and the transition to a different kind of life.

Languages Plus

Timothy A. Bennett strives toward a new vision for the foreign language department. “You can think of a university as...