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'Lighting Up'
Smoking is cool, sophisticated, sexy and enjoyable. Plus, it can kill you. Scott McLemee looks at a study of how students try to split the difference.
A Persistently Ignored Problem
Public attention for student-on-student harassment and assault is overdue, but colleges also need to prevent the mistreatment of students by faculty members, writes Billie Wright Dziech.
Cautions on E-books
Daniel Goldstein warns that some of the contracts colleges are accepting may limit access in key ways.
Roles and Responsibilities
Michael Roth explains how he has worked with faculty in two presidencies -- sometimes maneuvering around traditional governance structures and at other times embracing them.
The Big Ten
After hundreds of columns in the course of the past decade, Intellectual Affairs takes stock. Scott McLemee wonders whatever became of Ivan Tribble.
#libedunbound, or 'Forbidding Mourning'
We shouldn't mourn the demise of liberal arts colleges, writes Eva Badowska. We should embrace new and evolving forms of liberal education.
Did You Notice Where the Super Bowl Was Played?
Karen Gross considers the implications of a marketing buy that most colleges could never even dream about.