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The Veterans Are Coming! The Veterans Are Coming!
Edward F. Palm, as a Vietnam vet and community college dean, offers some advice on what to say and do -- and what not to say and do.
Thinking Outside the Quad
Finding too little time to research and write, Paul Youngquist concocts a timely solution for what to do with those pesky undergraduates.
D.F.W., R.I.P.
The late David Foster Wallace didn't settle for satire. Scott McLemee says farewell to a wild talent.
Poetry, Bow Ties, Station Wagons, and the Scholarly Life
Julio Alves recalls the professor who taught him how to be a student.
The Worst Academic Careers -- Worldwide
Philip G. Altbach and Christine Musselin wonder if things are getting so bad that a new kind of ranking is called for.
'Call Me Phil'
I’m Phil Dolly, Ed. D. Recently resigned, or deposed, community college president. Yesterday I was the CEO at North East...
The Wrong Idea on the Drinking Problem
Colleges need to do much more than talk about the drinking age -- especially given evidence that the law may be reducing fatalities -- writes Jonathan Gibralter.
Prospero's Island?
We reached the island on the morning of Labor Day, as the last of the vacationers were closing up their...