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Bitches, Good Soldiers and Golden Boys

Ruth Haberle writes that junior faculty members all get placed in one of three categories, and she's happy about where she ended up.

Class Dismissed

Pennsylvania attorney general shutters "diploma mill" and launches litigation offensive against the owner.

Semiotics 101

Robert Weir offers a guide for first-year students on how their excuses will be understood by their professors.

Things Done in Secret

A new book recounts Harvard's purge of gay students in 1920.

Is It Time to Shut Down Engineering Colleges?

Domenico Grasso writes that they need a radical overhaul -- and a lot more liberal arts.

The President and the World

Terry Caesar explains why we need the leaders who run campuses -- and why they are mysteries to those they lead.

Inquiring Minds Want to Know

Is Bush drinking? Scott McLemee ventures into the world of tabloid scholarship.

To Debate or Not to Debate Intelligent Design?

Gerald Graff, who coined the phrase "teach the controversy," applies it to the issue of the moment.