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Meritocracy, Lottery, Game

Gerry Canavan questions the metaphor commonly used to describe the academic job market.
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Graduation Shouldn't Be Endpoint

Colleges that truly want to help first-generation students need to stay involved as they make their next transitions, write Karen Gross and Ivan Figueroa.
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Conference Talks: A Head-butt or a Headache?

Advice on putting conference talks in perspective
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"The Peripheral"

William Gibson's latest triumph.
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The FCC and the Internet

Competition and net neutrality.
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Hong Kong, Ferrets and the Future of Academic Freedom

It’s impossible to predict what the world will look like in 30 years. China may well have assumed global pre-eminence by some measures, but it’s difficult to see that Hong Kong will retain the academic freedom of the past and be viable as an international education hub.
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My Technological Dream of Carpe Diem

A problematic storyline.