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ABC's and Ph.D.'s: Chess
Every year the fourth grade math teacher at my daughter’s school teaches all the fourth grade students to play chess...
Advice on Academic Advice
When hunting for a job, you need all the ideas you can get -- and you need to ignore plenty of them, writes Nate Kreuter.
It's a Jersey Thing
No one would think of the call for papers as a literary genre. But the CFP can be distinguished from...
They Shoot the Intellectuals First
What happens when your scholarship is considered a crime? When the state tries to stop you? What do you do...
A Biography of Plastic
Plastic: A Toxic Love Story by Susan Freinkel A Challenge: Write down every object that you use in one day...
Advocacy and academe
Climate change. Energy supply. Economic activity. Employment. Public health. Water pollution. Species die-off. Penn State. Pitt. Cornell. Research. Public funding...
Media Coverage of Global Higher Education: Only in English, Please
A few weeks ago I attended the First International World Views Conference on Media and Higher Education in Toronto. A...
What Global Rankings Ignore
Countries value universities that promote economic growth, but those who conduct international ratings are oblivious, writes Indira Samarasekera.