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The Conference on Cold Fusion. Esperanto Again. David Galef offers a look at the academic meetings at which the faculty of U. of All People hopes to vacation, er, develop scholarly expertise this winter.

Reaching working class students requires not just professors' good will, but concrete efforts, writes Shari Dinkins.

Jason B. Jones writes that, done correctly, the kinds of statistical analysis politicians want in assessment systems can point to tough and important questions for professors and administrators to consider.

The latest salvo in the entertainment industry's campaign against illegal downloading of movies and music -- aided and abetted by Congress -- is wrong, and students should help fight it, Kenneth C. Green argues.

The oral historian Studs Terkel now tells his life's story. Scott McLemee listens to a puzzling silence in the tale.

Keith Hoeller writes that a review of the history of the push for adjunct equity suggests that it's time for some strategy adjustments.

The push to measure student learning is portrayed as benefiting students, but it will hurt, not help, them, writes Bernard Fryshman.

Paula M. Krebs considers how a woman educated professors about issues of class and power -- while helping all who relied on her.