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A Degree of Fraud
Diploma mills are almost as old as the university itself. Scott McLemee wonders why there isn't more scholarship on the real problem of fake degrees.
Professor as Personal Trainer
Alex Golub returns to a comparison he made nine years ago as an A.B.D., and considers it from perspective of a tenured professor.
Dissertation Advisers and Their Motives
Professors need to ask themselves why they seek to supervise the work of Ph.D. students, and whose interests are being served, writes Heather Dubrow.
Proof via Straw Man
Trotting out students as victims of for-profit institutions is often an attack by false and partial anecdotes, writes Wade Dyke.
Beauty in Ugly Dorms
Daniel F. Chambliss writes that the best living spaces for new students have crowded hallways, no singles, and group bathrooms -- in other words, everything too many colleges are trying to replace.
Left Off
Karen Head recalls how she has been consistently advised in advancing through her academic career to leave her associate degree off her C.V. She ignores the advice.
Don’t Capitulate. Advocate.
The MLA's proposed reforms for graduate education need to be challenged, write 10 humanities scholars.