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In Praise of Small Conferences
You don't need thousands of people and academic superstars to learn a lot, writes Jason Pickavance.
Churm House, Part 3
My wife and I will soon open part of our home as Churm House, an inn for wayward academics. When...
Utilizing America's Most Wasted Resource
How often have we heard, “People with talent and ideas are America’s greatest resource”? And yet, while colleges and universities...
The Flawed Metaphor of the Spellings Summit
Manufacturing is not the model for higher education, writes Daniel F. Chambliss, and that's why the education secretary's conclave was based on faulty assumptions.
Hard Wordes in Plaine English
The first English dictionary was published long before Samuel Johnson. Scott McLemee consults the first reprint in 400 years.
And Speaking of Movies
We have a brilliant young scholar friend whose critical mind won’t rest. Last summer he performed a Marxist critique of...
The Brave New World of MySpace and Facebook
Social networking sites pose risks for students and challenges for colleges that try to monitor them, write Sheldon Steinbach and Lynn Deavers.
This Just In
Mrs. Churm was on Capitol Hill last week with NAFSA: Association for International Educators to help raise congressional awareness of...
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