Opinion

Should college and university professors alone have their work protected by "the scholar's woolen cloak?" Alan Contreras can't imagine why.

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As a political liberal -- and proud of it, thank you very much -- I believe that it's immoral for...

By Dean Dad

Erin O’Connor, an English prof at Penn, blogs about higher ed, sometimes from a position politically to the right of...

By G. Rendell

You know me. I’m a hardnosed intellectual, critic, and person of science, just like you. But Valentine’s Day is tricky—...

By Oronte

Three of them come to mind right away, three sensitive, eager, smart literary scholars in the making in my literature...

By UD

Victor E. Ferrall Jr. writes that these institutions are vital to society -- and need to replace their sales pitches with arguments and policies that are more true to their missions.

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A long-suffering correspondent writes: I have taught for now nearly two decades in a smaller field in liberal arts and...

By Dean Dad

If we keep doing what we’ve been doing, we’ll keep getting what we’ve been getting. What most of us have...

By G. Rendell