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What's Wrong With Boasting About CLA Scores?
Like all good Ohio State University alumni (M.P.A. '95), I've been preparing to obsessively follow the highly-ranked Buckeyes football team...
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Moving Beyond the 'Big 3'
It’s a brave new world for tenure-track faculty members, graduate students, and postdocs these days. New and aspiring professors enter...
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Why Assistant Professors Should Earn More Than the Tenured
Doing so might bruise the egos of senior professors. But a college could increase the quality of its faculty by giving relatively higher salaries to junior professors, James D. Miller writes.
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'Molto, Signora': Or, How I Read Winckelmann Under the Tuscan Sun
I hadn’t seen the movie and I hadn’t read the book, but I’d seen the preview and the poster: “The...
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Rankings Are Useful -- But Go Beyond 'U.S. News'
Many in the academic community despise college rankings and the implicit associated “grading” of universities. This is terribly ironic since...
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RateMyRankings: Ridiculous!
Forbes portrays its new college rankings as an outcomes-oriented alternative to U.S. News. But the outcomes it chooses -- including Ratemyprofessors.com -- make it seem like a parody, Patricia McGuire writes.
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The End of the End of the End of History?
The conflict between Russia and Georgia was a turning point of some kind. Scott McLemee wonders what's the big idea....
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Why Doesn't Plagiarism Matter?
As David Horowitz would be quick to remind you, academics tend to skew to the left in their political outlook...