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B.O. No

Professor's email at U of Houston about body odor, referencing some cultures, raises concerns about how to broach this delicate topic, if at all.
Opinion

Reading Mobilization

Scott McLemee reviews L. A. Kauffman's How to Read a Protest: The Art of Organizing and Resistance.

Now Hiring ‘Dr. Inside’

Erroneous job ads with the preferred candidates' names in the titles roil academics who have experienced "sham" searches.

Hampshire Struggles to Stay Afloat

Hampshire College, the nearly 50-year-old experiment in self-directed education, facing "bruising financial and demographic realities," looks for a partner.

Unfit for Native American Studies?

Longtime Stanford English professor says he's stepping down from a teaching a Native American literature course after students complained he was culturally insulting and possibly unqualified.

Banning a Book, in the Name of ‘True Academic Freedom’

Roman Catholic colleges have some of the most open curricula among religious institutions. But that didn't stop Franciscan University from banning a book that portrays the Virgin Mary as sexual -- and ousting a department chair for teaching it.
Opinion

How to Avoid Overprepping for Your Classes

Too many faculty members prepare too much for the classes they teach, writes Christine Tulley, who proposes a solution: pattern teaching.

Editorial Mutiny at Elsevier Journal

Following in the footsteps of linguistics journal Lingua, the editorial board of the Elsevier-owned Journal of Informetrics has resigned and launched a rival journal that will be free for all to read.