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Vietnam, Part 2
I’ve always been interested in how we know where to go before we know why. It felt accidental some years...
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Richard J. Gelles considers the rude way most college committees treat those asked to write external review letters, and offers some suggestions.
Shakespeare's 7 Ages of the College Teacher
1. Cluelessness2. Terror3. Hope4. Competence5. Hubris6. Comeuppance7. Sabbatical Note: Adjuncts should omit Age 7 and carry on with Age 6...
The Duke Case in Perspective
A scholar of gang rape on campuses writes that even if no assault took place, the lacrosse party is part of a disturbing pattern and the athletes aren't heroes.
Reject the 'Finish in 4' Fad
"Finish in four, I promise!" That is what Northern Arizona University is telling its incoming students. With a little better...
Vietnam, Part 1
It was a fair start, for an ironical life, to be born American in Saigon, Vietnam, on Ho Chi Minh’s...
Motivation and Its Discontents
Will bringing in an inspirational speaker cure the faculty blues? Scott McLemee describes a skirmish in the culture wars.
Out of State Checks and Academic Credits
As the nation’s registrars gather this week in Boston, Wick Sloane applies a dash of Open Source thinking to the costly, intractable data, articulation, credit-transfer muddle in higher education.