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Ask the Administrator: You've Got to be Kidding...
A regular reader writes: A probationary faculty member in my college plagiarized his entire statement of teaching philosophy in his...
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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.]...
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Fields for study
A column by a British (sometime-) academic may point the way toward research opportunities for American universities. George Monbiot has...
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Thoughts on the Fifth Estate
Oso Raro has a thought-provoking, if maddening, piece up - check it out - on the changing role of the...
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"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...
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Sub-critical mass
Erin O’Connor, an English prof at Penn, blogs about higher ed, sometimes from a position politically to the right of...
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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—...
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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...