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Course Evaluations, Years Later
Professors may get much better feedback by waiting a while -- and then asking students to reflect on what stayed with them, writes Tom Deans.
In the American Grain
Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, died last week. Scott McLemee salutes a voice of dissent.
The Good Reader
Unlike many other, less famous writers, Howard Zinn treated a young editorial assistant like a person. Rachel Toor remembers him fondly.
A Dish Best Served Cold
An alumnus with a grudge wreaks havoc by requiring a college to tenure its food service workers. Lee Williams surveys the carnage.
Defining Moral Education
Elizabeth Kiss and J. Peter Euben consider why and how colleges engage in a crucial form of instruction.
My Book, My Dreams
What happens when you pour all your effort into a work -- and hardly anyone seems to notice the result?
Make Maintenance of Effort Permanent
Congress should regularly require states to maintain their spending on higher education, F. King Alexander argues.
'Economy of Attention'
It is not only people living on islands who count as insular -- etymology notwithstanding. Consider a recent piece by...