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Eat less carbon

I was speaking recently with a representative of Greenback U's dining services. My intent (predictably) was to move them towards...

ABCs and PhDs: Personal experiments

In my last semester as a graduate student, I TA’ed a human behavioral biology course. As it turned out, I...

The Tuition/Aid Tango

(Or, worst "Dancing With the Stars" episode ever.) In discussion with my counterparts across my state, I'm hearing that most...

War in the Heavens and Here Below

A new book revisits Manicheaism. Scott McLemee takes a look at the world religion that didn't quite make it.

Ask the Administrator: Starting from Scratch

A new correspondent writes: The University of the District of Columbia is spinning off a new community college. If you...

The Library Web Site of the Future

Professors don’t view academic library portals as their source for scholarly resources. Rather than fight that trend, Steven Bell writes, librarians should transform their Web sites and put their content where faculty and students can find it.

Mothering at Mid-Career: Lines, dead and other

February was somehow a month of deadlines for me. There was a short commissioned piece to write, a column, an...

The 'Business Model' Is the Wrong Model

In their honest desire to satisfy the current demand for “accountability” in higher education, many academics have begun to worship...