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Unexpected Conversations

Pamela Bedore, Tom Deans and Thomas Lawrence Long reflect on a faculty committee that was a success without pushing for change.
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The Public Service Obligation

A stint in public higher education left Paula M. Krebs wondering how private liberal arts colleges think about their obligations to their local communities.
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Get Out While You Can

Tenured professors should make alternate career contingency plans before the higher ed system collapses, writes James D. Miller.
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Closing the Gap

The experience of a women's college may point to steps all institutions can take to diversify science and technology fields, writes Jane McAuliffe.
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Ecumenical vs. Evangelical

A historian's thoughts on recent American religious history resonate with the campaign season. Scott McLemee looks around the paywall.
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Drop the Ball

If universities want to end athletic scandals, they need to kill Division I football and basketball, writes Lewis Margolis.
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Beauty Pays

Daniel S. Hamermesh studied why more attractive people are more successful -- and found evidence that the trend applies in academe.
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Reconsidering Journalism's Tenure Cocktail

Discouraging professors of journalism from doing journalism themselves is like telling a music professor to give away his piano and...