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Duke lacrosse scandal points to need for academics to better understand histories of their ties to their localities, writes Eric Moyen.

The hurried patron spying Why Truth Matters (Continuum) on the new arrivals shelf of a library may assume that it...

Amy L. Wink writes that when professors learn new things in the summer, they become better teachers in the fall.

Velma Montoya, a former U. of California regent, writes about how top administrators came to be overpaid and what can be done about it.

Anne Colby and Thomas Ehrlich offer advice on how professors can promote political engagement by students -- without drowning in hot water.

Some of the Spellings commission's views on accreditation are problematic, says Judith S. Eaton, but higher education can't ignore them.

The U.S. commission's push for higher, national standards clashes with the public's desire for lower ones, Alan Contreras argues.

The field of motorcycle studies has its own journal. Scott McLemee goes riding with the Footnote Gang.