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Phatic Academics
"Glad the semester is almost over!" "Grading, grading, grading." Jeff Rice is tired of the way professors seem determined to say something meaningless to one another.
Bardolatry as Idolatry
It's time for conservatives who claim to support the humanities to move beyond a single author and to question program cuts and a culture that devalues literary study, writes Robert Matz.
That's Not My Department
Judith Shapiro considers whether it is time for faculty members to focus on their colleges and universities more than on their disciplines and organizational units.
Going Off the Map
A historian's travels can contribute more to her work than archival sources. Scott McLemee reads Dispatches From Dystopia.
Academic Freedom and Dr. Oz
It doesn't matter how wrong the television host is on important issues, writes John K. Wilson. He shouldn't lose a faculty job over public statements.
The Coaching Transformation
Shifting from being a professor to a coach in a competency-based program isn't easy, write Christine Seifert and Richard Chapman, but it pays off for both students and instructors.
Accreditation Under Fire
As proposals fly to "fix" higher education's system of quality control, Bernard Fryshman explains its virtues and urges caution in abandoning it.