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Re-sorting Responsibilities
The various players in higher ed policy -- governments, accreditors, institutions and families -- should take on roles that suit them and stop overreaching, A. Lee Fritschler and Arthur Hauptman argue.
The University vs. Liberal Education
Dan Edelstein wonders if elite colleges, by making the undergraduate experience so enticing and expensive, are unintentionally diverting students from the humanities.
Late-Breaking Developments...
The C.L.R. James Library stands fast -- and Amazon launches the digital pamphlet. Scott McLemee reports.
Antioch's Choice
Antioch College, emerging from the ashes of its involuntary auto de fé, plans to appoint a new president shortly and...
Campus Talk: 'What It Is'?
The student worker in our department office had messed up the committee report so that Page One was tucked between...
The Nutty Professor
In an excerpt from his new book, Robert Klose wonders where eccentric faculty members have gone.
Substitute Education for Lysol
The Rutgers tragedy is a reminder that cybergossip -- commonly about first-year females -- is widespread and that campus leaders need to take a stand against it, writes Dawn Watkins.
Tenure Isn't the Answer
In a recent essay at Inside Higher Ed, Cary Nelson, president of the American Association of University Professors, underlined the...