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What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate?
Reflections on the end of history … and the academic study of the arts, literature and philosophy.
What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate?
Reflections on the end of history … and the academic study of the arts, literature and philosophy.
8 Ways to Improve the Quality and Effectiveness of College Teaching
Yes, we can strengthen teaching without imposing on faculty autonomy.
How to Combat the High Schoolization of the University
Some reflections on UNC professor Molly Worthen’s defense of more traditional approaches to pedagogy and definitions of the faculty role.
Words to Live By
Foreign languages offer windows into ways of thinking that lie outside English’s vocabulary.
Scandals in the Ivory Tower
Corruption, fraud and academic misconduct aren’t isolated occurrences in colleges and universities. They’re products of misdirected academic structures, incentives and cultures.