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Mum's Not the Word
In first statement on confidentiality and academic governance, AAUP recommends against blanket bans on faculty members sharing information.
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Students and Video Game Addiction
A college administrator – witness to his son’s gaming-driven academic meltdown – issues a warning to student affairs officers everywhere.
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Interpreting Turmoil
A prominent social theorist gathers his thoughts on the past few years of upheaval. Scott McLemee risks an opinion.
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What Humanities Job Crisis?
The data suggest that things are improving, and that the worst shifts reflect larger societal changes, not academe, writes Chase F. Robinson.
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Bieberians at the Gate?
Could philosophy (or other disciplines) be improved by letting those outside the discipline play a role in judging its work? Robert Frodeman, J. Britt Holbrook and Adam Briggle consider the possibilities.
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Fixing Humanities Grad Programs
Michael Bérubé tells graduate school deans that the issues are complicated and interconnected.
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Bankruptcy, Not Forgiveness, for Student Loans
The current headlong rush to make student debt forgivable does nothing to encourage prudent borrowing and discourage tuition increases, writes Jenna Ashley Robinson. Making some loans dischargeable in bankruptcy would send better signals.