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July 21, 2017
A proposal by the federal Office of Management and Budget would leave higher education research institutions in every state in an impossible situation, write the chief research officers of 12 Florida colleges and universities.
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July 20, 2017
Federal officials won’t grasp the complexity of the debate over campus sexual violence without hearing from those who understand it best: student affairs professionals, Lee Burdette Williams argues.
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December 16, 2009
The Savage Detectives and 2666 make literature feel like a matter of life and death. Scott McLemee interviews a prominent Bolaño-logist.
December 15, 2009
Public universities need help, but that doesn't mean the values of the Morrill Act should be discarded by favoring a few institutions over the rest, writes M. Duane Nellis.
December 14, 2009
When American students want to do good in the developing world, do they have the tools to help or are they going to be a burden on those who do? Debra Carney asks some tough questions.
December 11, 2009
Whether they've been naughty or nice, the men and women of U of All People are due gifts at this time of year. David Galef presents the wish list.
December 10, 2009
Mikita Brottman bemoans the lost art of the creative syllabus, and what it says about our colleges and their students.
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