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Tenure and Spinach

New Kid has a great post, taking to task a particularly annoying “First Person” column in the Chronicle. The column...
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Beyond Merit Pay and Student Evaluations

Colleges' current methods of rewarding excellent teaching are flawed, says James D. Miller. His proposed alternative: Let students give their favorite professors cash.
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Notes from the First Week Back

The Wife's birthday was this past weekend. She continues to look dramatically younger than her age, which I'll admit taking...
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Teaching Free Speech in Times of War

Reading about the issues of the day, in French, offers new perspectives to students and their professor, writes Helen Solterer.
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Fees

The New York Times ran a front-page article yesterday with the shocking – shocking, I say – news that colleges...
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Tough Liberal

The late Al Shanker was both labor leader and ideological warrior. Scott McLemee interviews his biographer for a podcast.
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Background on the New Academy, and Questions for Bill Galston

The proposed Public Service Academy would be America's "first national civilian university" dedicated to producing "leaders of character" who would...
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John Emerson Churm, 1918-2007

My father holding me, Saigon, 1963.