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Instead of trying to turn themselves into something they're not -- a center of fundamental learning -- campus libraries should focus on their traditional core mission of supporting education and research, writes Johann Neem.

A celebrity so big that party politics can't hold her. Scott McLemee takes a look at Going Rouge.

Brian Rosenberg explains why, as a college president, he has a high bar for speaking out on public issues.

Tom Deans and Tom Roby, directors of a university's centers to help students with writing and mathematics, respectively, consider the styles, goals and metaphors of their related efforts.

Most colleges' cost cutting decisions so far have avoided rigorous reviews of academic programs. It's time for that to change, writes Tim Mann, who offers some pointers.

Debates over affirmative action divert attention from the need for a massive research project to understand -- and close -- the racial achievement gap, write Thomas J. Espenshade and Alexandria Walton Radford.

40 years ago, Monty Python brought deconstruction to the telly. Scott McLemee looks on the bright side of life.

Until the canes and coffins stop, essays on meter and imagery are banned, writes Wick Sloane.