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The University vs. Liberal Education
Dan Edelstein wonders if elite colleges, by making the undergraduate experience so enticing and expensive, are unintentionally diverting students from the humanities.
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Late-Breaking Developments...
The C.L.R. James Library stands fast -- and Amazon launches the digital pamphlet. Scott McLemee reports.
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Campus Talk: 'What It Is'?
The student worker in our department office had messed up the committee report so that Page One was tucked between...
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Antioch's Choice
Antioch College, emerging from the ashes of its involuntary auto de fé, plans to appoint a new president shortly and...
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The Nutty Professor
In an excerpt from his new book, Robert Klose wonders where eccentric faculty members have gone.
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Substitute Education for Lysol
The Rutgers tragedy is a reminder that cybergossip -- commonly about first-year females -- is widespread and that campus leaders need to take a stand against it, writes Dawn Watkins.
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Tenure Isn't the Answer
In a recent essay at Inside Higher Ed, Cary Nelson, president of the American Association of University Professors, underlined the...
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New Metric System?
Measuring scholarly influence by citations made sense... once. Scott McLemee looks at the emerging alternatives.