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The Great Bookie
Mortimer Adler built a publishing empire around the Great Books of the Western World. Scott McLemee interviews an author who has mapped its terrain.
Policy Denied
Santa Clara U.'s Faculty Senate has deemed the administration's new exclusion of elective abortions from insurance coverage "invalid," and wants the Board of Trustees to take up the matter.
Another Push for Embargoes
Second history organization comes out against requirement that all dissertations be made available online.
Backing the Israel Boycott
American Studies Association members vote by a two-to-one margin to endorse the boycott of Israeli universities.
Caught in the Crossfire
AAUP finds that professor was denied tenure for his role in a conflict between linguistics and TESL faculty, which helped prompt a faculty vote of no confidence in Northeastern Illinois U.'s president and provost.
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Change Is Coming
Current business models and out-of-date curricular and teaching models need to be reformed for higher education to fulfill its crucial roles, writes Dan Greenstein.
Too Risky for Boulder?
Students and alumni rally around tenured professor who says she is being forced out because her lecture about prostitution (in a course on deviance) might make some people uncomfortable.
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Disrupting the Disruptors
A key principle -- that education is a public good -- needs to be central to discussions about how to change higher education, writes James Grossman.