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These fields need more attention, financial support and students, and scholars shouldn't be afraid to say so, writes Matthew Pratt Guterl.

A new approach to literary criticism looks at the history of energy sources. Scott McLemee checks its mileage.

Women from Pakistan, Canada and the United States consider the implications of the brutal attack on a graduate student from Bangladesh -- and the reactions to it.

The authors of Academically Adrift may be letting black students off the hook, to the students' own detriment, writes Roy L. Beasley.

Every campus has them: senior professors who resist change at all costs. A longtime dean urges his academic colleagues to take them on.

The only way to protect foreign students is to recognize the realities involved in recruiting them, writes Mitch Leventhal.

A prominent photographer offers a portrait gallery of contemporary philosophers. Scott McLemee takes a look.

John Marsh wonders how higher education can rejoice when its budget woes are minimized by deep cuts to social services.