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Lessons of a Summer Teaching Online

Amy Overman found rewards, but not those she expected, in her first experience offering a class through distance education.
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Turning a Page

What should the president-elect study between now and the inauguration? Scott McLemee presents a reading list.
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Application, U.S. Secretary of Education

Wick Sloane offers the presidential candidates his one-year plan for a federal role in education when most attention will be elsewhere.
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The Incredible Vanishing Book

Christopher Conway knows why traditional publishing models aren't working, but he writes that scholars should still resist a bit -- and mourn what is being lost.
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I'm Leaving

I distinctly recall the first day of graduate school. Some of my classmates knew the field’s top-tier journals, the term...
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Advise and Consent

David Galef describes U of All People's humble effort to streamline its advice on advising for students and faculty members.
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Market Failure

Why, after 30 years of deregulation, is the state bigger than ever? Scott McLemee checks out a new book on the paradox.
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Fear and Humiliation as Legitimate Teaching Methods

His anthropology research leaves Alex Golub with an uncomfortable conclusion: Sometimes a "sink or swim" pedagogy makes sense.