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Going South

A humanist's search for research support, in David Galef's latest dispatch from U of All People.
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Oh, Canada

Americans have no monopoly on crises of national identity. Scott McLemee takes off to the Great White North....
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Jane Austen, Yadda, Yadda, Yadda

Devoney Looser considers what to say when your academic specialty is suddenly capturing public attention.
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Gone With Two Flashes

Risa Gorelick describes her nightmare upon the theft of her intellectual (and other) property.
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Counterpoint: What About the Students?

An op-ed this week on transfer of credit worried more about the burdens on registrars than the needs of students or taxpayers, Elise Scanlon and Roger Williams argue.
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Surviving the First Year

As she gets ready to start as an assistant professor, Shari Dinkins shares the advice she's received and the lessons she learned.
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Time to Step Back

Higher education accreditation is badly flawed. But expanding the federal role, as Margaret Spellings proposes, is the wrong way to fix it, Jane S. Shaw writes.
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Score One for the Secretary

Her campaign to measure student learning was ill-conceived, but Spellings deserves credit for changing the conversation about higher education, Bernard Fryshman writes.