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Stephen Hawking: Cooler Than Isaac Newton
Oh sure, Sir Isaac Newton wrote the Principia and Opticks and all, and he too was Lucasian Chair of Mathematics...
One Student's Plea for Help
John Around Him is a student in the Bunker Hill Community College English class that was the subject of Wick...
ACE and the Presidents
Friday, May 11, 2007 ACE, the American Council on Education, is a remarkable organization. Their mission, to speak for and...
Oh, Totally Sweet
That’s what a grad student next to me said when he saw the most recent publisher book fair in progress...
Maggie ... Yer Doin' a Heck of a Job!
News of New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s investigation of questionable student loan practices was initially met with dismissive contempt...
Hidden in Plain View
Alexander C. McCormick writes about the problem with 'U.S. News' rankings that nobody talks about.
Walk of Shame
The end is near: It’s time to grade the stacks of final papers, estimate student participation grades, tabulate everything and...
Sex! Politics! Dubious Footnotes!
How much excitement can you take? Scott McLemee looks at some scholarly scandals that seem faintly familiar.