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Intellectual Entrepreneurship: The New Social Compact

How can public colleges remain relevant to citizens of their state? By using the ideas their scholars generate to transform lives, Richard A. Cherwitz argues.

The Lecturer's Tale

A couple of years ago, a book appeared which might as well have had the title The Pedagogy of Zaniness...

Don't Blame the Market

Like ancient Rome in its waning days, American higher education is corrupted by excess. According to a now infamous 2003...

Going to the Bathroom

Terry Caesar remembers when students dealt with bodily functions after class -- and considers their unwillingness to wait today.

This, That and the Other Thing

Intellectual Affairs has been running for just over a month now. It might be a good moment for a bit...

An Academic (Almost) Does the WB

Rich Benjamin gets snared in the reality television craze and learns some lessons about obsession with youth and life as a gay intellectual.

In Black and White

Just because an African-American author turns out to be white doesn't mean that scholarship on her is any less creative....

Who Gets In, What It Costs

John V. Lombardi asks and answers questions about price and selection in American higher education. The core question: Is the system fair?