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In Praise of Prickly Women
Despite the negative connotations they incite, they have exactly the kind of insight and persistence that higher ed needs today, argue M. Soledad Caballero and Aimee Knupsky.
I am the Very Model of a Pundit Academical
Miriam Elizabeth Burstein offers a Gilbert and Sullivan take on academe.
Posterity Applies a Disinfectant
Scott McLemee on a surprising aspect of Amy Werbel's Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock.
Recruiting Rural Students by Building Relationships
A personal approach is needed, writes Kandi Turley-Ames.
Social Media as a Weapon to Harass Women Academics
It persistently threatens and impacts women’s well-being in a multitude of ways, argue George Veletsianos and Jaigris Hodson.
Let’s Focus Innovation on Social Mobility
We must do better at moving low-income students into and through college, in part by adopting new learning models and taking student success strategies to scale, Brian Fleming and Allison Dulin Salisbury write.
FIRE, Aim, Ready!
A recent report from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni defends free expression on campuses for weak reasons, argues Steven Bahls.
Theory in Revolt Now Thunders
Reading "Theses on Theory and History" -- a manifesto decrying the state of history as a discipline -- left Scott McLemee feeling, in Yogi Berra's haunting words, "déjà vu all over again."