Opinion

I have been reading Libby Gruner’s recent “advising” columns with interest, both because I wish I’d had someone like her...

Oral exams shouldn't be reserved for the dissertation defense, write Tom Deans and Jamie Frueh, who use them with their undergrads.

Curtis J. Bonk offers advice for the start of an academic career.

I'm reading a great book called The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain...

The "what ten books have influenced you?" meme is making its way around the blogs, and while I don't usually...

No, this information does not originate with the Finnish linguist Sloof Lirpa. It originates at, among other places, the University...

"People seemed to run out of their own being," says Philip Roth's Nathan Zuckerman in American Pastoral, as he considers...

I’ve never considered myself an administrator. I’m a teacher first, a scholar second, and committee member/service provider third. I doubt...