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Kristin Esterberg and John Wooding, two professors who became administrators and then returned to the faculty ranks, consider how reward structures divide these groups.

Science fields will lose quality if they don't attract a broader range of students, write Daryl E. Chubin and Shirley M. Malcom.

When Susan Kirschner tried an experiment so she could better hear her students, she ended up teaching them how to listen.

Responding to a journal editor's helpful essay about expectations for scholarly authors, Kevin Brown offers the flip side.

Bernard-Henri Lévy has become an American media superstar. Scott McLemee thinks his fifteen minutes are about up.

Todd Diacon wonders what today's students -- behind their closed doors -- don't know about their dormmates and how that lack of interaction is changing the nature of the college experience.

Timothy Burke looks at the changing economic landscape for higher education -- and sees a coming period of relative austerity.

It isn't as spiffy as the homeland security threat level system, but David Galef tries to explain the latest revision of U of All People's course coding system.