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Why do the scientists ask all the good, important questions? Wick Sloane wonders.

Admit it: You sometimes consult Wikipedia. Scott McLemee wonders if you should write for it, too.

A recent Supreme Court decision, theoretically neutral about professors, could be quite dangerous, writes Dennis Baron.

Dealing with "unacceptable" student behavior is difficult, Terry Caesar writes, because the concept is so hard to define.

Roger W. Bowen writes that the AAUP's new survey of public attitudes on professors conveys a different reality from what people have been hearing.

Duke lacrosse scandal points to need for academics to better understand histories of their ties to their localities, writes Eric Moyen.

The hurried patron spying Why Truth Matters (Continuum) on the new arrivals shelf of a library may assume that it...

Amy L. Wink writes that when professors learn new things in the summer, they become better teachers in the fall.