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Block the July 4 Coup
The 2013, 2014 and 2015 chairs of UT Austin's Faculty Council argue that the effort to remove the president there is shortsighted, and that academics nationwide must take note.
Are Universities Gouging Online Students?
Students who don't come to campus deserve a discount, writes Randy Best.
A Degree of Fraud
Diploma mills are almost as old as the university itself. Scott McLemee wonders why there isn't more scholarship on the real problem of fake degrees.
Professor as Personal Trainer
Alex Golub returns to a comparison he made nine years ago as an A.B.D., and considers it from perspective of a tenured professor.
Dissertation Advisers and Their Motives
Professors need to ask themselves why they seek to supervise the work of Ph.D. students, and whose interests are being served, writes Heather Dubrow.
Proof via Straw Man
Trotting out students as victims of for-profit institutions is often an attack by false and partial anecdotes, writes Wade Dyke.
Beauty in Ugly Dorms
Daniel F. Chambliss writes that the best living spaces for new students have crowded hallways, no singles, and group bathrooms -- in other words, everything too many colleges are trying to replace.
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