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Students Crave Self-Esteem Boosts Above All, Research Finds
A new study in the Journal of Personality finds that college students crave boosts in self-esteem -- such as receiving...
JSTOR Plans to Add Full-Length Books to Its Offerings
The subscription-based research database JSTOR, which contains backlogs of scholarly articles going back centuries, has announced plans to begin adding...
Academic Minute: Missile Defense
In today’s Academic Minute, Pepperdine University's Robert Kaufman explores the need for continued research into missile defense. Find out more...
Mentoring 101
Guiding undergraduate students can be personally rewarding and support good teaching, a panel of historians notes. So why is it left to chance?
Literary Détente
Group created to be the anti-MLA and guardian of traditional literary analysis holds sessions and builds new relationship with ... the MLA.
An Open, Digital Professoriat
At MLA, scholars argue for the power of the web and social media to create a new generation of public intellectuals.
A New Econ Core
Do the common courses taken by doctoral students need more relevance and creativity?