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The New Math
A new book offers guidance to the aspiring mathematician. Scott McLemee has a look.
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The Un-Retiring
What happens when a chair never moves on? A professor explores life in such a department.
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Public and Private: What's the Difference?
American colleges and universities, especially those that define themselves as public institutions because they are owned by states, carry on...
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Plain Talk About Plain Speech
Rob Weir announces the Society for Intellectual Clarity and the rules for its new journal.
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My Friend Al Gonzales
Michael A. Olivas reflects on how faculty colleagues reacted when they learned of his connection to the attorney general whose policies he opposes.
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Doing the Lord's Work
Two images of William Jennings Bryan have settled into the public memory, neither of them flattering. One is the fundamentalist...
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Reforming Selective College Admissions
Deirdre Henderson offers a parent's view on fixing what she says is a broken process.
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The Pretense
James Wallenstein thinks back on his ambivalent relationship with an academic star.