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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.
Gone With Two Flashes
Risa Gorelick describes her nightmare upon the theft of her intellectual (and other) property.
Counterpoint: What About the Students?
An op-ed this week on transfer of credit worried more about the burdens on registrars than the needs of students or taxpayers, Elise Scanlon and Roger Williams argue.
Surviving the First Year
As she gets ready to start as an assistant professor, Shari Dinkins shares the advice she's received and the lessons she learned.
Score One for the Secretary
Her campaign to measure student learning was ill-conceived, but Spellings deserves credit for changing the conversation about higher education, Bernard Fryshman writes.