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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.
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Beyond Consolation

Scott McLemee interviews Sandra Gilbert about her new book, "Death's Door."
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Questions from a Provocateur

Wick Sloane, a former state university CFO, asks: Why are we abandoning public higher education and strangling access?
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Bring Back the Handshake

If you are serious about the advancement of academic women, stop hugging them, writes Coral Hughes.
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Open Letter to My College Professors

Weeks into her first faculty job, Danna L. Walker thanks (and apologies to) those she learned from (and underappreciated) as a student.
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The Great Mismatch

The National Research Council's ratings claim to measure research quality, but they ignore some of the most important and cutting-edge fields, write Kermit L. Hall and Susan Herbst.
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Literature to Infinity

Franco Moretti is a theorist with a reputation for counting literary works, rather than reading them. Scott McLemee asks if it all adds up.
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Finding the Courage to Begin Again

As the year starts, Amy L. Wink reflects on how we inspire ourselves to creativity.