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A New Channel for OER
OER provider Lumen Learning joins with Follett to bring open course content to faculty members through the campus bookstore.
The Wrong Reviewer
Leading history journal apologizes for assigning review of book on inequality and urban education issues to a professor viewed by many as a white supremacist.
‘Doodling for Academics’
A coloring book from the University of Chicago Press? Yes, and it pokes fun at academe.
‘A Mean Amount of Money’
Administrators at CUNY and SUNY look to seize an $8 million opportunity to drastically expand the use of open educational resources at their campuses.
Opinion
Tax Injustice
In Dirty Secrets: How Tax Havens Destroy the Economy, Richard Murphy describes how the available means of concealing assets are so highly developed that they amount to an alternative global economy, writes Scott McLemee.
Manifold Uses
Manifold, a hybrid publishing platform created by the U of Minnesota Press and CUNY’s Graduate Center, launches in beta form with features supporting experimental scholarly work.
Opinion
Democracy Is in the Streets
A scholarly framework and documentary format coincide in The Activists, writes Scott McLemee, which depicts the antiwar movement in this century’s first decade as an assemblage of collaborating but distinct groups.
The Plight of the (Fictional) Liberal College President
The Devil and Webster depicts feminist campus leader struggling to deal with escalating student protest over tenure denial she knows (but can’t explain in public) was justified.