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Some academics and critics may sneer at Malcolm Gladwell, but Rachel Toor celebrates the New Yorker writer's love of ideas, his entertaining and inviting writing style -- and, yes, his hair.

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The stimulus package offers an opportunity to provide student aid in a way that would also generate revenue and appeal to our national roots, writes Arthur Levine.

By Arthur Levine

Karen Gross explains her reasons for teaching an undergraduate course beginning this week.

By Karen Gross

As the humanities and social sciences weather the financial crisis, perhaps the moment has arrived to reconsider their public purpose, writes Gabriel Paquette.

By Doug Lederman

How to handle the constant pileup of scholarly publications? Scott McLemee takes a look at two alternatives.

By Scott McLemee

Professors have an obligation to respond to the crisis of global climate change with a new form of engaging their students, writes Eban Goodstein.

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It's time to shift the way contingent faculty members -- and their tenure-track colleagues -- think about their work and how to improve their treatment, writes Steve Street.

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It's here to stay, writes Andrei Codrescu, who offers his poetry course to illustrate.

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