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Curt Rice considers the incongruities of being a professor on a picket line -- but is also glad to have had the experience.

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Zygmunt Bauman's new book discusses education in an age of unrelenting instability. Scott McLemee consults a modern master.

By Scott McLemee

At Virginia and elsewhere, would-be reformers cite technology as forcing higher education to change. But that's often an excuse for politically motivated decisions, writes Johann Neem.

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The disciplines are needed more than ever and besieged more than ever, writes Peter Burian, who considers the ways scholars can respond.

By Peter Burian

Kieran Healy imagines the documents the UVa Board of Visitors intended to issue.

By Kieran Healy

The Obama administration’s push to standardize financial aid packets will do little to address college affordability, writes R. Barbara Gitenstein.

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Many universities' IP policies at one time respected faculty rights, and need to return to that approach, writes Cary Nelson.

By Cary Nelson