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A Call for Professional Attire
Erik M. Jensen thinks it's time for professors to start dressing like professors, and he has some fashion rules to share.
Real Progress (Finally) on College Affordability
After years of delay and defensiveness by some leaders in higher education, Congress is poised to start getting the cost crisis under control, writes Rep. Howard P. (Buck) McKeon.
Blue Skies Ahead?
Historians think Hurricane Katrina may have been a turning point for America. Scott McLemee isn't swept away....
Discounting Our Way to Affordability?
Higher education can’t solve the problem of student access merely by having a few wealthy colleges replace grants with loans, write William Durden and Robert Massa.
Public Intellectuals, Inc.
It's time to use the term "corporate intellectuals," writes Jeffrey R. Di Leo, to reflect the realities of the way the public engages with thinkers and their ideas.
S.A.D. and Sadness
While on sabbatical, Denver Brunsman reflects on deadlines and sabbaticals, and self-diagnoses a new academic condition.
PowerPoint Poetry
David Galef's latest dispatch from U of All People, in honor of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs annual meeting this week.
The New York Review of (Little Red) Books
How many degrees are there separating Stanley Fish, Tom Cruise, and Maoist revolution? Scott McLemee finds out....