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Reference books are the lowest form of scholarship. That makes reading them a guilty pleasure, Scott McLemee confesses.

By Scott McLemee

Judith Halberstam calls for a radical shift in the way her colleagues think about their discipline and its future.

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College slogans range from silly to absurd, writes Mark J. Drozdowski.

By Mark J. Drozdowski

Right after 9/11, the obituaries started to appear: Irony, the reports said, was dead. Either that or in really bad...

By Scott McLemee

Stephen G. Bloom decries the higher education version of the Academy of the Overrated.

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If legislators and the public really want colleges to perform, they've got to put dollars at stake, says John V. Lombardi.

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Every college needs a scapegoat, writes Michael Bracken, and he'd be great at it.

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Terry Caesar analyzes the role of neckwear for the male academic.

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