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No Academic Bill of Rights?

A recent Supreme Court decision, theoretically neutral about professors, could be quite dangerous, writes Dennis Baron.
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Leopards in the Temple

Dealing with "unacceptable" student behavior is difficult, Terry Caesar writes, because the concept is so hard to define.
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Ward Churchill, ACTA and Public Opinion

Roger W. Bowen writes that the AAUP's new survey of public attitudes on professors conveys a different reality from what people have been hearing.
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Town-Gown Relations on Trial

Duke lacrosse scandal points to need for academics to better understand histories of their ties to their localities, writes Eric Moyen.
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The Truth? You Can't Handle the Truth!

The hurried patron spying Why Truth Matters (Continuum) on the new arrivals shelf of a library may assume that it...
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Balancing Acts

Amy L. Wink writes that when professors learn new things in the summer, they become better teachers in the fall.
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Getting Compensation Under Control

Velma Montoya, a former U. of California regent, writes about how top administrators came to be overpaid and what can be done about it.
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From Ideology to Inquiry

Anne Colby and Thomas Ehrlich offer advice on how professors can promote political engagement by students -- without drowning in hot water.