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Ask the Administrator: The Paradox of Good Citizenship
A thoughtful correspondent writes: I'm in a humanities dept. at a very good SLAC. One of our faculty members is...
Every department should be a history department
Recently I was asked to sit for an oral history interview covering my years at Hofstra. Since my years at...
BARBIE, PhD?
Ann Zimmerman reports in The Wall Street Journal that, thanks in large part to a viral campaign by female computer...
Epic Fail
What should a college do when a professor fails 90 percent of the students in an intro class? Apparently, at...
Perfectionism -- II
Peg Boyle Single identifies symptoms and treatments for a problem that can block writing.
Hiding in Plain Sight
Campus leaders need to acknowledge, and talk about, the fact that men are more likely than women to commit violence, Jason Laker argues.
Favorite Literary Films
There’s an academic family around these parts, it’s said, who watch all the Jane Austen films together every Thanksgiving break...
How many angels?
So, drawing on the putative thoughts in the last two posts, one of the problems universities face in trying to...