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Dual Career Challenges
Sue V. Rosser considers the particular issues facing women in science.
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The Mind's Ear
Nietzsche, Sartre, and Roland Barthes kept regular daily appointments with the piano. Scott McLemee listens in.
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Grandiosity Run Amok
Lawrence Lokman examined imaging slogans being used in higher education, and he's not impressed with the results.
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Diversity’s Evidences
Len Niehoff worked on the legal team that saved affirmative action during the last Supreme Court review of the practice. As a law school teacher, he writes that he finds the arguments even more compelling.
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Faculty Fashion
Daniel J. Myers thinks it's time for professors to care a little more about their sartorial style.
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Higher Education as a Business
Education is one of the few enterprises that guarantee a positive return -- and as such, argues Mehdi Maghsoodnia, should be the top priority for government spending.
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The Best and the Brightest
A cable news journalist looking at American life through classics of social theory? Scott McLemee checks it out.
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Professors and Online Learning
As he makes his own foray into distance education, John Thelin, who describes himself as the "archetypal Old Prof," tries to make sense of Inside Higher Ed’s recent survey of faculty views on the topic.