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Two recent instances of professorial plagiarism - New Zealand novelist Witi Ihimaera and, allegedly, Ohio State University mathematician Azita Manouchehri...

Give My Poor Heart Ease : Voices of the Mississippi Blues. William Ferris. The University of North Carolina Press, November...

First, if you've ever wanted a sense of academic hiring, read Profgrrrrl's post. Now. Slowly. It's all true. Worse, it...

How will academic libraries make sure that their content is available on a 3.5-inch mobile device? Should this even be...

My first week of graduate school found me in a microeconomics class with a teacher reviewing the assumptions behind what...

At this point in the semester, my students – who once seemed an amorphous blob of Kaylas, Kyras, and Karas...

An occasional correspondent writes: At one of my adjunct gigs (where I teach just once a week) the HR department...

Brad Stone has an interesting piece "The Argument for Free Classes via iTunes" in today NYTimes. He reports that iTunesU...