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Fake Citations Kill a Career
Columbia says a historian's acclaimed book on North Korea was plagiarized, and its publisher says it's been taken out of print.
Opinion
Evaluating the Genuine Fake
Scott McLemee reviews Lydia Pyne's Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff.
How Not to Do Public Discourse
A program on civic virtue at UNC-Chapel Hill is raising concerns about secrecy and funding.
Opinion
We Need to Talk About Authorship Abuse
The academic community must move beyond compliance with standards and toward the cultivation of a greater sense of ethical responsibility, argue A. Susan Jurow and Jordan Jurow.
Free Textbooks, but Not for All Students
The University of the Cumberlands will begin a free textbook loan program next year for on-campus students only.
Opinion
Asking the Editors: Part 1
Junior Prof shares advice from two leading university press editors about first-time book authorship.
Speaking Out Against Student Evals
Sociologists and more than a dozen other professional groups take a stand against using student evaluations of teaching as a primary measure of teaching effectiveness.