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40 Years of 'The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual'
Polemics seldom age well. But when Harold Cruse published The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual during the fall of 1967...
The Professor's Ten Commandments, Thanks to Notorious B.I.G.
We're staring down the barrel of another academic year. Time for a refresher course in professional deportment -- by which...
Rankings Help Community Colleges and Their Students
Kevin Carey, who created a rating system, writes that the data are instructive and comparisons are valuable.
Happy New (Academic) Year
The Rev. Scott R. Pilarz considers what he most likes about August in the cycle of academic life.
Teaching Moments
The big breakthroughs come one by one, writes Melissa Ballard, not in the massive group breakthroughs you see in the movies.
Going South
A humanist's search for research support, in David Galef's latest dispatch from U of All People.
Oh, Canada
Americans have no monopoly on crises of national identity. Scott McLemee takes off to the Great White North....
Jane Austen, Yadda, Yadda, Yadda
Devoney Looser considers what to say when your academic specialty is suddenly capturing public attention.