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A thoughtful correspondent writes: I'm in a humanities dept. at a very good SLAC. One of our faculty members is...

Recently I was asked to sit for an oral history interview covering my years at Hofstra. Since my years at...

Ann Zimmerman reports in The Wall Street Journal that, thanks in large part to a viral campaign by female computer...

What should a college do when a professor fails 90 percent of the students in an intro class? Apparently, at...

There’s an academic family around these parts, it’s said, who watch all the Jane Austen films together every Thanksgiving break...

So, drawing on the putative thoughts in the last two posts, one of the problems universities face in trying to...

Once, when I was in high school, I must have said something that particularly exasperated one of my teachers. She...

A new correspondent writes: I am a faculty member in the humanities at a small comprehensive college, and I may...