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The imposition of a hard and fast tenure standard for publications at David Rivers's liberal arts college has taken a toll, he says.

This year is the double anniversary of Sartre's birth and death. Scott McLemee finds no exit from his legacy.

Assassins, fools and silly procedures derail careers and degrade our fellow professors, write Cary Nelson and Stephen Watt.

Reference books are the lowest form of scholarship. That makes reading them a guilty pleasure, Scott McLemee confesses.

Sasha Waters offers a pointed reply to her colleague Stephen Bloom's essay last week on journalism and academe.

Judith Halberstam calls for a radical shift in the way her colleagues think about their discipline and its future.

College slogans range from silly to absurd, writes Mark J. Drozdowski.

Right after 9/11, the obituaries started to appear: Irony, the reports said, was dead. Either that or in really bad...