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Long Distance Mom: Avatars and Earth Mothers

The reviews of Avatar are in — the CGI effects are incredible, the motion captured acting is solid, but the...
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Lessons from a Super Loss

The seeds of the Colts’ defeat were written several weeks earlier -- with implications for higher education, Karen Gross writes.
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Book Review: Imagining Paris

I have the sixth largest library in the United States of America. Technically it’s not mine of course, but I...
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Popular Nonfiction, Academic Libraries, and Audiobooks

Should academic libraries purchase popular nonfiction? Should academic libraries supply borrowers with the book format that matches their preferences and...
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Attack of the Blob?

The Chronicle of Higher Ed has a few pieces this week on for-profit higher education. They're revealing and thought-provoking, though...
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Don't Drink the Kool-Aid

In December, Inside Higher Ed graciously brought me down to the Modern Language Association conference in Philadelphia to meet with...
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Critique of Impure Reason

All hail the scholarship of Jean-Baptiste Botul! Scott McLemee looks into a case of philosophical fact-checking.
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Charging for Quality

There's a thoughtful discussion over at Dr. Crazy's about full-time faculty workload. (The post was a response to Tenured Radical's...