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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.
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Current business models and out-of-date curricular and teaching models need to be reformed for higher education to fulfill its crucial roles, writes Dan Greenstein.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.
Accreditation Agita (Update: Accreditor Extended)
As federal panel weighs fate of agency that withdrew support from City College of San Francisco, lawmakers on Capitol Hill ponder future role for the government in accreditation.
Aggie Journalism Revival
Ten years ago, Texas A&M cut its journalism program. The job market imploded in the meantime, but the university hopes its interdisciplinary, liberal arts education approach will make reviving the degree a smart move.