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Improving Learning and Cutting Costs
Carol A. Twigg writes that colleges can use course redesign to accomplish several key goals at the same time.
Dialectics of Disaster
After months of tsunami, hurricane, and earthquake, Scott McLemee wonders if the trouble didn't really start on November 1, 1755...
Speaking the Heritage
A professor tries to explore the complexities of speaking Spanish in the Southwest -- and runs into unexpected roadblocks.
Campus Justice Is Behind the Times
"Restorative justice" can help both victims and those accused of many violations of college policies, writes David R. Karp.
A Child's Garden of Culture and Atrocity
"Whoever cannot give to himself an adequate account of the past three thousand years," said Goethe, "remains in darkness, without...
We Need Humanities Labs
Isolation is one of the biggest enemies of grad students, and yet is all too prevalent, writes Gina Hiatt.
Festivus Cerebration
As the holiday season approaches, Scott McLemee contemplates made-up traditions -- and his own future in the remainder bin.
The Professor as Personal Trainer
Academics worry too much about consumer values in higher education, but Alex Golub writes that it's not about the money -- it's about the relationship.