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Is There a Grant to Study This?

A student pouted at me in conference today and said she doesn’t care about writing or reading well. She wants...

A Time for Casting Away

As her academic career evolves, Amy L. Wink reconsiders the books she needs to have, and those she can give up.

Changing SEOG to Save It

Killing the student grant program is a bad idea, says Constantine Curris, but some criticisms of it are warranted.

Churm House, Part 2

My wife makes more money as an internationalization coordinator than I have ever made, even as a corporate writer. That’s...

iCranky

Laurence Musgrove is no Luddite, but he's sick of being told he has to learn some new gizmo to reach his students.

Comparatively Speaking

How do you measure the best religion? The best marriage? Hard to say. The same is true in assessing colleges, Bernard Fryshman writes.

The Invisible Woman

Thanks to DNA testing, Sally Hemings is fully part of national history. Scott McLemee considers the work of a scholar who fears the real story will be whitewashed.

The Famous Are Different From You and Me

Multiply 15 minutes of fame by 6 billion people, and you’re bound to run across someone famous sometime. Some encounters...