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Jed Shahar describes how he found educational value in the tool he once held in disdain.

In the debut of a new humor column, Mark J. Drozdowski describes his difficulties training for the circus life.

Curt Rice considers the incongruities of being a professor on a picket line -- but is also glad to have had the experience.

Zygmunt Bauman's new book discusses education in an age of unrelenting instability. Scott McLemee consults a modern master.

At Virginia and elsewhere, would-be reformers cite technology as forcing higher education to change. But that's often an excuse for politically motivated decisions, writes Johann Neem.

The disciplines are needed more than ever and besieged more than ever, writes Peter Burian, who considers the ways scholars can respond.

The Obama administration’s push to standardize financial aid packets will do little to address college affordability, writes R. Barbara Gitenstein.

Kieran Healy imagines the documents the UVa Board of Visitors intended to issue.