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Oh, Good Lord...
A new book by Garry Wills asks what Jesus meant. Scott McLemee stays for an answer.
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The Folly of Federal Policy
Debate over a new financial aid grant program reveals how irrationally Washington makes decisions about higher education, Neal McCluskey argues.
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We Can't Do It Alone
Colleges and universities have come under relentless pressure from lawmakers and the public about retention and graduation issues, and demands...
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The Isolated Academic
Shari Wilson considers why professors create so many barriers to interacting with others -- and the personal costs of such divides.
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The College Board's Real Mistake
The latest exhibit in an increasingly frustrating pattern of eroding public trust is that of the College Board's misrepresentation of...
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Legal Jams
Once a band gets to the recording studio, lawyers often grab the microphone. Scott McLemee asks a musicologist if that's a good thing.
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The View From the Peanut Gallery
Wick Sloane on what got said (and what didn't) at Monday's public hearing before the higher ed commission.