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Get Out While You Can

Tenured professors should make alternate career contingency plans before the higher ed system collapses, writes James D. Miller.

Closing the Gap

The experience of a women's college may point to steps all institutions can take to diversify science and technology fields, writes Jane McAuliffe.

Ecumenical vs. Evangelical

A historian's thoughts on recent American religious history resonate with the campaign season. Scott McLemee looks around the paywall.

Drop the Ball

If universities want to end athletic scandals, they need to kill Division I football and basketball, writes Lewis Margolis.

Beauty Pays

Daniel S. Hamermesh studied why more attractive people are more successful -- and found evidence that the trend applies in academe.

Reconsidering Journalism's Tenure Cocktail

Discouraging professors of journalism from doing journalism themselves is like telling a music professor to give away his piano and...

Precision First

In the time of Twitter, concision may be a valid goal in student writing. But clarity and accuracy are often emphasized too little, Kim Epting argues.

From Culture War to Shooting War

Shortly before the bombing and shooting spree in Norway last month that left 77 people dead, Anders Behring Breivik e-mailed...