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The Texas Tech K-12 Pipeline
Texas Tech University created a K-12 school more than 25 years ago, but the school’s potential as a source of future university students is just starting to be realized.
Opinion
Destination Moon
Scott McLemee reviews Charles Pappas's One Giant Leap: Iconic and Inspiring Space Race Inventions That Shaped History.
Another Day, Another Blunder
Archaeology society continues to anger members with how it responds to negative feedback.
N-Word at the New School
Another professor is under fire for using the slur in class while discussing a work by James Baldwin. Should universities pursue cases against instructors who use the word in a teaching context, not as a weapon?
‘Safe Enough Spaces’
Author discusses new book on inclusion, free speech and political correctness on campus.
Opinion
The Weaponization of Academic Citation
Freshman composition programs have done that, and we need to stop it right now, argues Jennie Young.
Opinion
Give It a Rest
Finished your dissertation and ready to write your book? Not so fast, warns Laura Portwood-Stacer.
Abstract ‘Spin’
Study says authors exaggerate their findings in paper abstracts, and that's a problem when readers take them at face value.