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i suppose in the middle of the road of my life i’ve entered not a dark wood exactly but something...

“That’s stupid.” As a professor, I gritted my teeth every time I heard a student say that. It was an...

Joshua Kim wrote an interesting post in his blog on Monday about voluntary part-timers. His thesis is that part-time workers...

We’ve discussed the notion of cheating several times here at the University of Venus, its ramifications, philosophical perspectives, and devices...

What will the university be like in 30 years? In 1981 I was 12 years old, growing up in Brookline...

Last week, I riffed on a controversy over a library organization restructuring that led to new positions being created, old...

I just finished James H. Kunstler's novel, World Made by Hand. It's the tale of a small community near the...

Accreditation is about as ambiguous a measure as anyone could imagine. Yet, being “accredited” has tremendous value in the academic...