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The Hopped-Up Conference Hopper
Bleary from academic gabfests, drugged with prescription narcotics... Scott McLemee wonders how Hunter S. Thompson ever managed.
The Real Meanings of Letters of Recommendation
Professors complain about all the writing they have to do to get students into grad school, but Randal Doane wonders if they think enough about the process.
'The Great Debaters': A Challenge to Higher Education
“The banquet of my Wiley years was the tutelage of Tolson.”-- James Farmer, Lay Bare the Heart Over the holidays...
A Crossroads for the Fighting Irish (and Their Peers)
It’s getting steadily harder for academically competitive universities to play big-time football without compromising themselves. Allen Sack suggests a new approach.
What's Ahead on Student Loans in 2008
After a year in which it dominated the headlines, the student loan “scandal” has lost its head of steam. New...
Back to Methuselah
The executive editor of MIT Press has been at his post for three decades. Scott McLemee checks in with a patriarch of academic publishing.
The Attack on Student Voting Rights
The disputes in Iowa reflect problematic attitudes that predate this election season and that should worry all who care about promoting civic engagement, writes John K. Wilson.
The Zen of Fenton
David Galef's latest dispatch from U of All People recalls a dean for whom administration was so effortless, it appeared he was doing nothing.
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