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'Lesson Plan'
Two former college presidents, both longtime scholars of higher education, discuss their new book on the problems -- real and imagined -- facing academe.
Professor Cleared to Teach After Furor Over Race
U of Kansas lifts suspension of faculty member whose comments angered black students and others, who demanded she be fired.
'The Bell Curve,' Still Incendiary
The book and a planned appearance at Virginia Tech by one of its authors set off a debate over race, academic freedom and the role of a university president.
Opinion
Learning From a Typewriter?
An old-fashioned physical object can create a surprisingly meaningful pedagogical moment in a classroom, writes Jared Berezin.
Accreditation Outside the Academy
As boot camps, online courses and other nontraditional academic offerings expand, several organizations angle to play an accreditor-like role in the growing space.
The Cost of Being Decent to Adjuncts
New paper argues that colleges can't afford to improve the pay and working conditions of those off the tenure track. Activists slam the analysis.
Defining Intolerance
U of California, which has seen divisive debates on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on its campuses, abandoned draft policy last year amid First Amendment concerns. The university is trying again.
Pirating Papers
Study looks at the reasons why people pirate scholarly articles from peer-to-peer research sharing communities -- it's more convenience than ideology.