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Earning Your Trophies (or Not)
The culture of youth soccer is hurting higher education, writes James Ricky Cox.
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Portrait of the Scholar as a Young Novelist
Jenny White finds that a not-yet-published piece of fiction threatens to overwhelm two decades of scholarship.
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Professional Correctness
Scott McLemee interviews a sociologist about "identity dissonance" in professional schools.
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Education in Two Cultures
A team-taught course leaves Linda Brigham considering the inadequate interactions between the humanities and the sciences.
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Reading, Writing and Representing
The graduate students and young professors who teach writing have a unique role to play in fighting attacks on academe in general and English in particular, write Frank Gaughan and Peter Khost.
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Wanting and Not Wanting to Hit Each Other
Terry Caesar explores the ever looming threat of violence -- physical, emotional or legal -- on campus today.
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Our Recent Recruitment Efforts
One university seeks to turn a big gift into an admissions advantage. The latest from David Galef's fevered imagination.
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Dysfunction Junction, What's Your Function?
About 10 minutes into last week's now legendary episode of Oprah (the show that made it to the front page...