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ABC's and PhD's: Nobel perspective
Two weeks ago I reported on a proposal about to come up for vote in the University of Maryland senate...
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Expert Advice
Peg Boyle Single interviews the authors of What They Didn't Teach You in Graduate School.
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A Gladiator of Letters
The Savage Detectives and 2666 make literature feel like a matter of life and death. Scott McLemee interviews a prominent Bolaño-logist.
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Settling
You know you're grading on a curve when settling to pay out only $78 million causes your stock to go...
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Politics, pedagogy, the press and professors (a prickly post)
Thanks to Terry Calhoun for stating briefly what I will now attempt to say with excruciating verbosity. I've been thinking...
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The Purposes of Learning Technology
--To challenge the status quo in teaching and learning. --To make big classes act and feel like seminars. --To help...
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The Wrong Rescue Plan
Public universities need help, but that doesn't mean the values of the Morrill Act should be discarded by favoring a few institutions over the rest, writes M. Duane Nellis.
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Ask My Readers: Getting Out of Dodge
A longtime correspondent writes: Something that may spark some responses from your readers. One of the things about our campus...