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Polemics seldom age well. But when Harold Cruse published The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual during the fall of 1967...

By Scott McLemee

We're staring down the barrel of another academic year. Time for a refresher course in professional deportment -- by which...

By Phil Ford

The Rev. Scott R. Pilarz considers what he most likes about August in the cycle of academic life.

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Kevin Carey, who created a rating system, writes that the data are instructive and comparisons are valuable.

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The big breakthroughs come one by one, writes Melissa Ballard, not in the massive group breakthroughs you see in the movies.

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A humanist's search for research support, in David Galef's latest dispatch from U of All People.

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Americans have no monopoly on crises of national identity. Scott McLemee takes off to the Great White North....

By Scott McLemee

Devoney Looser considers what to say when your academic specialty is suddenly capturing public attention.

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