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Birthing Pains and the Emergence of a New Social Narrative
Beverly Daniel Tatum considers why, as so many students rejoice in the election of Barack Obama, some campuses are experiencing racial incidents linked to the election.
Responses to the Gates Foundation
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced that community colleges will be the next beneficiaries of their largesse. A...
ABCs and Ph.D.s: Frills, lace, and dressing for success
I know that my mother and mother-in-law laugh at me behind my back. After all, I’ve taken some pretty ridiculous...
Saying Farewell to a Man of Letters
The late John Leonard was a one-man cultural-studies symposium. Scott McLemee reminisces...
A Promising First Novel
TB, who is in second grade, wrote his first novel yesterday. With names changed, and sans the distinctive illustrations, an...
Stuck on Student Learning
As Measuring Up 2008 prepares to grade higher education progress on a variety of fronts, most states' efforts to gauge academic outcomes have stalled, writes Peter Ewell.
Votes of No Confidence
(Happily, this isn't a concrete issue for me now. This just falls under "I've always wondered…") What are the rules...
AASHE2008 - Monday, November 10
It doesn't make sense. Fourteen hours of mostly sitting around shouldn't leave me more tired (and certainly more stiff) than...