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Any review of academe must start with the premise that higher education is a complex market with customers whose needs vary greatly, says John V. Lombardi.

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Shari Wilson shares tips on motivating students (and yourself) while teaching core courses.

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Joseph C. Burke writes that institutions need a better way to resolve the tensions over whether to emphasize prestige or public purpose.

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Terry Caesar considers the real meanings behind clothing with college and university names.

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The academic blogosphere has no home base. Scott McLemee has a vision of the not too distant future.

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Everyone complains that student writing skills have declined, but the evidence doesn't back up that view, writes Laurence Musgrove.

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Scholars who forced society to look for the real meanings in language more than a decade ago need to apply that approach to language used in academe today, writes Mark Bauerlein.

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Marc Zimmer analyzes the performances he must make to teach college students.

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