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Opinion
The Economic Collapse and Educational Values
Ralph Hexter sees similarities between the reward structures of the business world and the college world -- and thinks academics should offer a different model.
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Long Distance Mom: Carbon Guilt
Inside Higher Ed has done a good job with publicizing the humor and pain surrounding long distance couples and their...
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Ask the Administrator: Go or Stay?
A new correspondent writes: I am a graduate student at a state school with a pretty decent reputation. Although I'm...
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Fear of faculty
The various tasks that fall to me as Greenback U's sustainability administrator bring me into contact with an increasingly broad...
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ABCs and PhD's: Balance or merge?
When I started my new part-time research job at the university early this fall, they got me a new computer...
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Becoming Susan Sontag
An author's diaries are where the will to write is forged. Scott McLemee sneaks a guilty peek.
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Edifice Complex
Enough with the freakin' buildings, already. Apparently, the American Council on Education (along with some other groups) is wasting no...
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Gang aft a-gley
When it comes to reducing campus greenhouse gas emissions, some of the best-intentioned changes have poor results. 'Getting sustainable' requires...