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Colleges need to take specific steps to help students -- and society -- benefit from the interest in this year's elections, write Paul Loeb, Maureen F. Curley and Sherry Morreale.

Is U.S. literature too insular and media-crazed to merit notice by the Swedish Academy? Scott McLemee asks around.

Kristin Esterberg and John Wooding, two professors who became administrators and then returned to the faculty ranks, consider how reward structures divide these groups.

Science fields will lose quality if they don't attract a broader range of students, write Daryl E. Chubin and Shirley M. Malcom.

When Susan Kirschner tried an experiment so she could better hear her students, she ended up teaching them how to listen.

Responding to a journal editor's helpful essay about expectations for scholarly authors, Kevin Brown offers the flip side.

Bernard-Henri Lévy has become an American media superstar. Scott McLemee thinks his fifteen minutes are about up.

Todd Diacon wonders what today's students -- behind their closed doors -- don't know about their dormmates and how that lack of interaction is changing the nature of the college experience.