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'Powerful Voices'
Author discusses book about the history, inner workings and social role of college a cappella.
‘Diploma Mills’
Historian A. J. Angulo examines the history of for-profit colleges and universities and how many of the problems surrounding these institutions aren't new, but rooted in a past that goes back to the colonial era.
'Wisdom's Workshop'
Author discusses new book on the evolution of the modern university.
Opinion
The Art of the Swindle
You may think of yourself as smart, a good judge of character and destined for a life better than the one you have -- but someone appealing to those feelings can end up with all your money and no known forwarding address. Scott McLemee explains.
Textbook Destroyed
McGraw-Hill Education, after being told maps in a political science textbook were anti-Israel, withdraws the volume and eliminates all copies.
Opinion
Accounting for Scholarship
A recent report on the cost of publishing monographs should be of some interest to many people who buy, read and/or write scholarly books, says Scott McLemee.
The Next Librarian of Congress?
President Obama's nominee to lead the Library of Congress draws support from library groups.
Riding the Wave
On Sept. 9, 2015, scientists decided where they would publish evidence for gravitational waves. Five days later, they made the discovery.