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The Committee Is Now in Session
Carolyn Foster Segal considers -- with some fear -- the number of meetings professors must attend.
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Stop Using Rhetoric to Teach Writing
It's time to question an increasingly popular way to organize a key part of undergraduate education, writes Joseph Kugelmass.
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A Call for a Higher Education Summit
Arthur Levine writes that colleges could easily miss an opportunity offered by the presidential transition, but that the right kind of conclave could make this a constructive moment for tackling key issues.
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Hey, RIAA and MPAA, Time to Shift Gears
Entertainment companies should stop policing illegal downloading by college students, Joseph Storch argues, and head to the new frontier: the mobile device as all-purpose media-access machine.
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International Study Shouldn't Be Elective
Every American decade has its archetypes. If you were heading off to business school in the 1980s, you might have...
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The Economic Collapse and Educational Values
Ralph Hexter sees similarities between the reward structures of the business world and the college world -- and thinks academics should offer a different model.
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Becoming Susan Sontag
An author's diaries are where the will to write is forged. Scott McLemee sneaks a guilty peek.
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Sighing in Cyberspace
Maria Shine Stewart reflects on her experiences -- including a little trauma -- on her personal flight with technology.