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Rhetoric of a Global Epidemic
How we communicate about disease can have consequences for prevention and treatment. Scott McLemee consults a new book on a recent epidemic.
Evaluating Evaluations
Research is playing a bigger role in faculty evaluations, while collegiality is declining in importance, study suggests. Student evaluations remain important in assessing faculty, but could be given less weight going forward.
For the Birds
As Princeton University Press transitions from print to digital products, will it soar in its foray into the app market?
Web of Justice?
Controversial Internet campaign "outing" an unnamed philosophy professor for alleged sexual assault and harassment attracts praise and criticism.
Must Deans Be Silent?
Firing of a dean sets off debate over whether academic leaders must always publicly back the positions of their presidents.
The Substitutes Speak Out
Stepping into the breach for college commencement speakers sidelined by protests, retired university leaders defend importance of debate -- and one calls protesters "immature" and "arrogant."
The Plight of the Nonrenewed
An adjunct not on the schedule for fall struggles to make sense of the news -- and appeals to campus administrators to deal with larger issues surrounding contingent employment.