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In the Halls of Academia
As we greet a new academic year, Laurence Musgrove considers how we greet one another.
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40 Years of 'The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual'
Polemics seldom age well. But when Harold Cruse published The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual during the fall of 1967...
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The Professor's Ten Commandments, Thanks to Notorious B.I.G.
We're staring down the barrel of another academic year. Time for a refresher course in professional deportment -- by which...
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Happy New (Academic) Year
The Rev. Scott R. Pilarz considers what he most likes about August in the cycle of academic life.
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Rankings Help Community Colleges and Their Students
Kevin Carey, who created a rating system, writes that the data are instructive and comparisons are valuable.
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Teaching Moments
The big breakthroughs come one by one, writes Melissa Ballard, not in the massive group breakthroughs you see in the movies.
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Going South
A humanist's search for research support, in David Galef's latest dispatch from U of All People.
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Oh, Canada
Americans have no monopoly on crises of national identity. Scott McLemee takes off to the Great White North....