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Academic Minute: Sustainability Ethics
In today’s Academic Minute, Wade Robison of the Rochester Institute of Technology examines the philosophical assumptions at the heart of...
Opinion
'The Forum and the Tower'
Politicians and academics occupy different spheres. Scott McLemee looks at a new book on statecraft and scholarship.
Reforming the Carnivores
A growing number of students are taking on the food system's biggest generator of greenhouse gases: meat production.
Shortage Seen of Special Education Faculty
The programs that train special education teachers for K-12 systems will lose up to half of their faculty members to...
Report Documents Family Differences in Saving for College
A new federal study shows great variation by race in the degree to which parents of would-be college students are...
Who Is Qualified to Lead Arkansas Department of Higher Ed?
The director of the Arkansas Department of Higher Education must have experience working at a college or university and must...
Wards of the Court
A sharp split over digitized versions of "orphan works," as well as anger over Google's books project, led authors' group to sue major university libraries.
Wheelock's Unusual Approach to Athletics
At Wheelock College, the philosophy of the athletic program is to pay relatively little attention to whether games are won...