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The late Richard Rorty was a pragmatist philosopher and a generous soul. Scott McLemee looks back....

When enormously wealthy individuals give millions to enormously wealthy universities, it's time to stop calling it philanthropy, writes Walter M. Kimbrough.

Terry Caesar considers networks, knowing the "right people," and prestige real and imagined.

The Education Department's pressure on colleges to use quantitative measures of student learning is getting ahead of the needed research, Bernard Fryshman writes.

A loyal but worried member of the association offers an agenda for making the faculty group more relevant and more powerful.

As the HBO classic comes to an end, Scott McLemee revisits an early analysis of the gangster as American archetype.

The vote by the leaders of Britain's faculty union to isolate Israeli professors and universities demands opposition, writes Charles Small.

Current models are doomed to fail, but approaches that are willing to challenge corporate values and students' moral blinders might work, writes Terry L. Price.