Opinion

A savvy correspondent writes: My department at a small private liberal artscollege has a dramatic generational split, with three senior...

Céleste Brotheridge and Raymond Lee are tired of non-academics who think professors live a life of leisure in the summer.

The summer's usually a quiet time in academia, but UD's been kept busy covering a surprising number of dustups --...

Nothing gets our academic principles exercised quite as quickly as a conflict between athletic excellence and academic standards. Any issue...

I caught a lot of grief this summer from readers upset with what I’ve posted on this blog. No, I...

A new correspondent writes: I have a career decision dilemma, and I'm not sure where to go for help/advice.After receiving...

Imagine if world's most complete card catalog were just a mouse-click away. Scott McLemee chats with a young programmer who is making it happen.

This originated as a private email exchange, but after it developed, my correspondent asked me to post it to the...