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Universities celebrate their achievements in an endless series of public pronouncements. Like the imaginary residents of Lake Wobegon, all universities...

When I was just a few years out of graduate school I wrote a “treatment” for a television series to...

Jerome Karabel's book about Ivy League admissions touches a bundle of raw nerves. Scott McLemee twitches in response.

When department members come together, Terry Caesar writes, they reveal much about themselves -- and academic life.

The online version of a print journal must be more than just an electronic version of the original, writes Collin Brooke.

When her nephew abandons a degree program for a short-term certificate, Paula Krebs wonders where she and the country went wrong.

John V. Lombardi on the annual ritual in which board members scrutinize the academic tradition that most baffles them.

A new book offers guidance in reading Mein Kampf. Scott McLemee wonders if the canon wars are quite over.