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To Professors of Asian-American Studies
Jonathan Marks asks members of the discipline’s national association: Do you really all support the call for a boycott of Israeli academics?
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Murder, She Theorized
Serial killers have become the cultural anti-heroes of the age. Scott McLemee considers a new book that traces the back story of a morbid trend.
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Professional Responsibility
Teaching ethics should be part of the job of all faculty members in all disciplines, writes C.K. Gunsalus.
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'Gray'-cious Conclusion to a Career
Whether senior professors have a vibrant end to the later stages of their academic careers is largely in their own hands. Roger Baldwin and Michael Zeig offer guidance for how they can do so.
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MOOCs and Community Colleges
Access and affordability are nothing new to community colleges, writes J. Noah Brown. Neither is quality.
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Cocktails With Charles Eliot
One hundred years later, the former president of Harvard alights on an alumni event. Mark Drozdowski fills him in on MOOCs, the Ivy League, and the university's female president.
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Where Have All the Faculty Gone?
The growth in the number of professors teaching fully or mostly online gives community college students far fewer opportunities to interact with possible advisers and mentors, writes Keith Kroll.
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Wise Saws and Modern Instances
Reaching your 50th birthday is nobody's idea of fun. Scott McLemee is just glad it only happens once.