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Perils of Presidential Parallels

Robert Schmuhl writes about how he tries to engage the public with nonpartisan analysis based on scholarship -- and manages to offend all sides.
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Re-sorting Responsibilities

The various players in higher ed policy -- governments, accreditors, institutions and families -- should take on roles that suit them and stop overreaching, A. Lee Fritschler and Arthur Hauptman argue.
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The University vs. Liberal Education

Dan Edelstein wonders if elite colleges, by making the undergraduate experience so enticing and expensive, are unintentionally diverting students from the humanities.
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Late-Breaking Developments...

The C.L.R. James Library stands fast -- and Amazon launches the digital pamphlet. Scott McLemee reports.
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Campus Talk: 'What It Is'?

The student worker in our department office had messed up the committee report so that Page One was tucked between...
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Antioch's Choice

Antioch College, emerging from the ashes of its involuntary auto de fé, plans to appoint a new president shortly and...
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The Nutty Professor

In an excerpt from his new book, Robert Klose wonders where eccentric faculty members have gone.
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Substitute Education for Lysol

The Rutgers tragedy is a reminder that cybergossip -- commonly about first-year females -- is widespread and that campus leaders need to take a stand against it, writes Dawn Watkins.