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What Is Higher Education?
Many of us find it challenging to explain the American higher education system to non-academic audiences (and sometimes to academic...
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There's Distance Ed, and Then There's Distance Ed
Our distance ed coordinator stopped me in the cafeteria last week to report that she's trying to enroll a student...
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Universities Under the Influence
With her interest in the grotesqueries of bigtime university sports, UD has read tons of reports from tons of influential...
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Why Antioch Matters
The demise of a unique liberal arts college reflects a series of lamentable trends in higher education, writes Cary Nelson.
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Happy Bloomsday
Today is the annual worldwide celebration of Leopold Bloom’s adventures around Dublin in 1904. So set down your ashplant, hoist...
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Ask the Administrator: Going for Deanships
A new correspondent writes: ----- My question has to do with a dear friend of mine, an assistant professor of...
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That Pesky Summer Semester
Like a number of big sports campuses, Auburn University has designated faculty-enablers who smooth the way toward a bogus degree...
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Service: The Un-loved Third Rail
Many professors see institutional work as a distraction from research and teaching. They and their colleges must change that, Jim Lakso and Jim Tuten write.