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Professor as Personal Trainer
Alex Golub returns to a comparison he made nine years ago as an A.B.D., and considers it from perspective of a tenured professor.
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Dissertation Advisers and Their Motives
Professors need to ask themselves why they seek to supervise the work of Ph.D. students, and whose interests are being served, writes Heather Dubrow.
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Proof via Straw Man
Trotting out students as victims of for-profit institutions is often an attack by false and partial anecdotes, writes Wade Dyke.
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Luxury... and Your Next Book
Mark Edington considers the real crisis in academic publishing.
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Left Off
Karen Head recalls how she has been consistently advised in advancing through her academic career to leave her associate degree off her C.V. She ignores the advice.
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Beauty in Ugly Dorms
Daniel F. Chambliss writes that the best living spaces for new students have crowded hallways, no singles, and group bathrooms -- in other words, everything too many colleges are trying to replace.
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Don’t Capitulate. Advocate.
The MLA's proposed reforms for graduate education need to be challenged, write 10 humanities scholars.
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A Question for Every Answer
David N. DeVries considers what it means to live a life grounded in the liberal arts.