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Guidance from Above
Colleges that shift to performance-based education usually need a big push from their presidents, Joseph A. Olzacki and Donn Weinholtz argue.
Write On
Half of writing -- and most of life -- comes down to having plausible excuse for what you already plan to do.
Seven Ways of Reading a Poem
David Galef on "What I Learned at the Associated Writing Programs Conference."
Fuzzy Numbers
John V. Lombardi on why the student/faculty ratio owns a special place among the most spurious of higher education statistics.
Who's Undermining Free Speech on Campus Now?
Freedom of speech is crucial both to a healthy democracy and the life of the mind. The First Amendment to...
The Writer's Writer
Ask almost any American writer today for a list of his or her literary idols, and Frank Conroy’s name usually...
Read This!
An academic blogger talks about a new campaign to interest readers in fiction that they might otherwise miss.