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The Pursuit of Efficiency and the Pursuit of Folly

While colleges must avoid waste, they need to be careful that demands for cost-cutting -- especially in a period of tight state budgets -- don't destroy their values and mission, write Eric Gilbertson and Daniel Hurley.
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Sustainability's Third Circle

Around 1952, the brown treesnake ( Boiga irregularis) arrived on Guam from somewhere in the South Pacific, presumably as an...
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Becoming American

For society to thrive, universities can -- must -- introduce their students to the perennial questions and issues that define democratic theory and practice, writes Thomas Lindsay.
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Protect Your Patent Portfolio

Unless it is altered, legislation pending in Congress would negatively affect research universities, administrators and inventors alike, write Sheldon Steinbach and Bruce Wieder.
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Deployed

How do military reservists balance the two sides of being "citizen-soldiers"? Scott McLemee asks the researchers.
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The Answer Fits The Question

John W. Curtis defends the AAUP's approach to looking at changes in faculty salaries from year to year.
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Teaching Beauty

Jennifer Green-Lewis and Margaret Soltan celebrate literature professors unafraid to share their love of authors' artistry with students.
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Day in the Life

Continuing his series on community colleges, Wick Sloane offers a glimpse of the rewards and challenges that two-year-college faculty members find inside and outside the classroom.