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For-Profit Lessons for All
Despite all the controversies over the for-profit sector, it uses some approaches that could be embraced by traditional colleges, writes Ben Wildavsky.
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Tea and Sympathy
A law professor argues that the Tea Party movement is the Constitution's bodyguard. Scott McLemee gets schooled on originalism.
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Dear Reviewers, a Word?
Brian C. Rathbun offers some tips to those who decide the fate of journal submissions.
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Grant Panels as Prom Committees
Serving on committees that consider proposals to the National Institutes of Health leaves Felicia B. LeClere feeling confident in a crucial part of the scientific process.
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Real Impact
A chancellor's death reminds Roger Epp of the in-person, community-based connections that are vital to academe.
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An Evangelical Renaissance in Academe?
As a major new center for Christian thought opens, evangelical scholars should seek to exorcise the ghosts of fundamentalism, write Thomas Albert Howard and Karl Giberson.
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Values and Scholarship
Eleven research university provosts explain why they back open access -- in Congressional legislation and on their campuses.
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Taking Exception
American politicians love American exceptionalism -- or at least to talk about it. Scott McLemee wonders if they know the concept's odd history.