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Sixties Leavings

Evidence of UD's still-throbbing 'sixties sensibility. A list that will be added to as UD thinks of more stuff. 1.]...

Fields for study

A column by a British (sometime-) academic may point the way toward research opportunities for American universities. George Monbiot has...

Thoughts on the Fifth Estate

Oso Raro has a thought-provoking, if maddening, piece up - check it out - on the changing role of the...

"I Need This Class to Stay on My Parents' Health Insurance"

As a political liberal -- and proud of it, thank you very much -- I believe that it's immoral for...

Sub-critical mass

Erin O’Connor, an English prof at Penn, blogs about higher ed, sometimes from a position politically to the right of...

Valentine's Gifts Even Academics Can Love

You know me. I’m a hardnosed intellectual, critic, and person of science, just like you. But Valentine’s Day is tricky—...

In the Heart of the Heart of the Most Expensive

Three of them come to mind right away, three sensitive, eager, smart literary scholars in the making in my literature...

Ask the Administrator: Time to Jump Ship?

A long-suffering correspondent writes: I have taught for now nearly two decades in a smaller field in liberal arts and...