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An Idea Too Dangerous to Ignore

An open letter from Brian Thill to those offering to pay students to report on their UCLA professors.
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No Professor Left Behind

Colleges should resist the movement to quantify everything they do, writes Edward F. Palm, but that doesn't mean all assessment is bad.
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Martin Luther King vs. Role Model Nonsense

Roger Clegg says that there is no better time than this week to question the assumptions behind affirmative action.
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Notes from the Underground

Scott McLemee notices that scholars are creating a new sort of academic community. Or is that just the dream of a ridiculous man?
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Hasty Professionalization

The rush by students to make themselves appear employable may end up hurting their educations and their careers, writes one professor.
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Can We Learn the Hard Languages?

After attending a U.S. summit for college presidents, John V. Lombardi writes to Condoleezza Rice and Margaret Spellings.
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Two Takes on Teaching

Paula M. Krebs and Mary Krebs Flaherty -- sisters who work at very different institutions -- trade stories and questions.
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Doing Hard Time, Full Time

A look across the hall -- at the life of full-time professors who are not on tenure-track positions.