Opinion

So Nobel laureate Michael Beard assures us all of the the inevitability and consequences of global warming, in Ian McEwan's...

By Joshua Kim

This Saturday The Girl had her first t-ball game. T-ball, for the uninitiated, is a version of baseball in which...

By Dean Dad

“Henry Adams’s” most recent “Academic Bait-and-Switch” column in The Chronicle, in which he discusses all of his misguided reasons for...

By Susan O'Doherty

Peg Boyle Single considers how we put off writing -- and how to change our habits.

By Peg Boyle Single

Moving beyond the tension between policy makers and professors over assessing student learning will require those on each side to approach their respective responsibilities, and each other, as professionals, Victor Borden writes.

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A new correspondent writes: I work in an English Department at a mid-sized community college and currently chair a search...

By Dean Dad

Check out Steve Jobs' open letter on why Apple does not allow Flash on its mobile devices. Jobs gives a...

By Joshua Kim

I remember my comprehensive exams in graduate school as the low point of that experience. Classes were fun, and I...

By Rosemarie Emanuele