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Naming What We Know About Writing
A new book explores threshold concepts in writing studies and how they can be useful in practice. Librarians, take note.
Reading For Pleasure in Grad School
Advice for making time to enjoy non-academic books.
Technology's Powers and Limits
Remembering an anniversary and reflecting on the present.
Confessions of a Poverty-Class Academic in Training - I
Grace Cale reflects on her experiences.
The ENEM: A Giant Bottleneck for Brazil
Millions of Brazilians are about to take the ENEM, a national high school leaving exam, originally conceived as a mechanism for monitoring secondary school performance.
Getting the Ph.D. Was the Easy Part
Women in academe continue to face far more challenges than men do, writes Renate Ysseldyk.
Trumpeting a New Dean
A major contender in the presidential race is leaving it to join academe, at least in the dreamworld inhabited by Mark J. Drozdowski.
The New Yorker Gets One Right
Understanding for-profits.