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Decompressing Salaries
At many colleges, long-term professors say their pay lags behind that of newer faculty. Has UW Oshkosh found a way to deal with the problem?
The Aging of Economics
Younger scholars no longer dominate in top journals, study finds. While women have made gains in their share of articles, their proportion far lags their representation in the discipline.
Price of a Bad Review
A university librarian finds himself sued for questioning the quality of an academic press.
Expanding Pathways to MOOC Credit
American Council on Education puts stamp of approval on Coursera courses from Duke, Penn and UC-Irvine -- none of which would grant credits themselves.
Cracks in the Leadership
Anonymous document-leak site at Gustavus Adolphus helps the faculty air grievances about the president and highlights how technology shifts debates between faculty members and administrators.
Don't Call Me That
Some adjuncts are asking students not to address them as "professor."
Opinion
Catastrophe Theory
Didn't Immanuel Velikovsky's ideas go the way of Chariots of the Gods, bell-bottoms, and the pet rock? Scott McLemee looks at a monograph bringing him back into view.
Who Can Speak at Brooklyn College?
President defends right of organizers to have event -- co-sponsored by political science department -- supportive of boycott of Israel, but pledges new events with "alternative perspectives."