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Advising: Less Is More?

Students need practical help, not deep relationships, write David C. Paris and Timothy E. Elgren.
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Regulating the New Consumerism

Colleges can fend off government-mandated homogeneity only by better measuring and publicizing their own performance, John V. Lombardi writes.
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A Liberal Dose of Reason

Is Michael Bérubé a profiteer in the culture wars? Scott McLemee looks at his blog and his new books and the author discusses them in a podcast.
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An Inappropriate Illness

Mark Grimsley on living and working in academe -- with bipolar disorder.
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The Elephant in the Student Aid Office

Higher ed's lobbying groups want to get out in front of Margaret Spellings on need-based aid, but colleges should look inward first, says Donald E. Heller.
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How to Teach a Dirty Book

On the 50th anniverary of Peyton Place, Emily Toth considers what she's taught students and learned from them about the once scandalous novel.
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No God Left Behind -- Why Not?

A federal commission's obsession with accountability measures has William G. Durden thinking about what else might be tested -- or not.
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Liberty, Equality ... Diversity?

A new book by Walter Benn Michaels describes multiculturalism as bolstering economic injustice. Scott McLemee mans the barricades.