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Recommendations for Letters
Professors can spend hours each week, or in some cases each day, writing letters of recommendation for graduate students seeking jobs and postdocs. MLA asks if this time could be better spent.
The Pulse: David Small, Mobile Evangelist
This month's edition of The Pulse podcast features an interview with David Small, mobile evangelist at Blackboard Mobile.
Leaner and Meaner
As Education Department begins new round of deliberations over "gainful employment," its draft language is both simpler and stricter.
Opinion
Real Numbers, Real Goals
Ben Miller explains how the White House can lead the way in designing a meaningful college rating system.
What to Do About Congress
Faced with lawmakers' limits on NSF support for their discipline, political scientists consider impact of the measure and debate how to be more politically effective.
Poli Sci Professor Producers
New analysis draws attention to the influence of a relatively small number of programs -- and also points to doctoral programs that punch above their weight.
If Men Do It ...
Political scientists consider whether advances for women in the discipline will come from copying questionable male tactics or from changing the nature of values of the field.
Opinion
Scholarship in Public
John Sides and Lynn Vavreck explain why they rewrote rules of how to publish in political science for their book on the 2012 presidential election.