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Whom Can You Trust on Climate Change?
The furor over the stolen e-mail messages makes this a perfect time to focus on the value of peer review, writes Kevin B. Johnson.
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Lost Trust
The budget crisis at the University of California illustrates why faculty members can't rely on administrators to guard the real interests of higher education, writes Bob Samuels.
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Engineering Flexibility
If becoming a major means writing off most electives, activities and study abroad, students will find other majors, writes Pamela A. Eibeck.
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Define 'Frill' and Use it in a Sentence
Your “frill” is not my “frill. “ My frill, in fact, is an essential component of the work I do...
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Decline of the West
Cornel West's latest book is a memoir. Scott McLemee thinks it marks the end of the line.
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Overlapping Crises
Jamshed Bharucha considers the differing challenges facing higher education in India and the United States.
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'The Cusp of Every Bibliomaniac's Dream'
It is possible that I have too many books. There, I said it. (That felt weird.) Heading off to visit...