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An American College President in Egypt -- With 32 Students

As a professor, Rob Oden led many study trips. He considers why he is doing so now, from a different vantage point.
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In Need of a Persuasive Story

College leaders are paying the price for having done a poor job crafting coherent and compelling explanations about college prices, writes Paul Marthers.
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Ballad of the Borderland

Before globalization hit the headlines, Américo Paredes was living it. Scott McLemee interviews the leading Paredes scholar for an IHE podcast.
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Composition and Cookies

Terry Caesar considers the relationship between the traditional role of faculty wife and the role of today's adjunct.
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All That Money -- What Next?

Wick Sloane offers three suggestions for changing the federal tax code to help more low-income and first-generation Americans afford college.
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Admissions Dysfunction

Mitchell Lipton, a dean, recalls three scenes that illustrate how something terribly wrong has happened to the system.
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Learning From Cats

Rob Weir nominates eight academic fights to give up in '08
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Hillary-ious

A new book looks at media bias in coverage of women running for president. Scott McLemee considers the talking points.