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Survival of the Disciplines
Why are some departments being eliminated while others are secure? Where will all this pruning leave academe? Meg Worley wonders about the future.
Lessons from a Super Loss
The seeds of the Colts’ defeat were written several weeks earlier -- with implications for higher education, Karen Gross writes.
Critique of Impure Reason
All hail the scholarship of Jean-Baptiste Botul! Scott McLemee looks into a case of philosophical fact-checking.
J.D. Salinger: An Un-Appreciation
By rejecting anthologies and rebuffing biographers, a great author limited his future readership, writes Leonard Cassuto.
It's More Than High Jinks
The New York Times last month reported a story about several politically active students who crossed the line from what...
Afterglow From the MLA
Maria Shine Stewart, a first timer at the annual gathering of literature and language instructors, will be paying off the trip for a while. But it was well worth it for the content and camaraderie, she writes.
Course Evaluations, Years Later
Professors may get much better feedback by waiting a while -- and then asking students to reflect on what stayed with them, writes Tom Deans.
In the American Grain
Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, died last week. Scott McLemee salutes a voice of dissent.