Opinion

When a professor supervises student work at an outside business, how does a department provide oversight? C.K. Gunsalus helps with the issues and the politics.

By C. K. Gunsalus

The movement's rise shows the widespread ignorance of history in the United States, and the need for historians to assure their discipline can reach more students, write Erik Christiansen and Jeremy Sullivan.

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I suspect that variations on this will become more common in the next several years. A new correspondent writes: I...

By Dean Dad

A colleague in the Biology department recently told me about a book that applies game theory to altruism in the...

By Rosemarie Emanuele

Today it really is Earth Day 40, even though we at Greenback celebrated last weekend. The celebration was somewhat muted...

By G. Rendell

Recent tragedies show that even institutions with the best policies and programs are vulnerable, write Victor Schwartz and Jerald Kay.

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The official commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain's death took place today in Hannibal, Missouri. I'll write something...

By Oronte

From much of the discussion of 'data-driven' reforms that take place at the national level, you'd think that all that...

By Dean Dad