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Sexuality and the Self

How sexuality, long confined to the private sphere, became a key public marker of identity.

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Moving Toward Sustainable Academic Innovation

A guest post sharing ambitions for a new collaboration.

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A Better Metaphor: The Student as Client

Keith B. Murray argues that thinking of students as customers gets the professor’s role all wrong.

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How and Why You Should Build a Style Sheet

For authors in the humanities and social sciences, creating a style sheet can strengthen your text and offer insight into the values shaping your choices, Tess C. Rankin writes.

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Beyond Sin and Shame

How secularization redefined human transgression.

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Spring Ahead

Social trust is fraying, zombie bugs are on the loose and human ingenuity never fails to surprise—Scott McLemee rounds up select forthcoming titles from university presses.

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Tell the Truth About Debra Hammond

Lies about a long-serving student affairs administrator and diversity champion—and the many more like her—must stop.

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Some Things Never Change

You know there’s something wrong when the proportion of low-income students at elite colleges has barely changed over a century, Jim Jump writes.