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Public Missions, Private Dollars and Ordinary People
It's time to acknowledge and reverse the shameful spiral of disinvestment in public higher education, writes Ed Ray.
Buying Low
Apparently, the proprietary colleges are in the midst of another of their periodic booms, swooping in and grabbing students just...
Motherhood After Tenure: Mama and Papa PhDs
Last week I was a part of a panel in a colleague’s course on family values. The panel, “Mama and...
Healing ourselves
The sustainability crisis, the economic crisis, the fact that the US Chamber of Commerce (among other bad actors) is trying...
ABCs and PhDs: Vintage glass
It’s that time of year again when the boxes of Christmas decorations come out of storage and for a few...
Canadian Universities Are Way Ahead of Us On This
It’s high time to visit our good friends over at The World’s Fair, a Seed Media science blog, who have...
Rediscovering Hubert Harrison
Eighty years ago, a prominent black intellectual disappeared from the historical record. Scott McLemee talks to the man who rescued him from oblivion. With a podcast.
A Mixed Marriage
I'm increasingly convinced that there are two ways of watching television, and that The Wife and I are firmly planted...