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A Bright Light

Margee M. Ensign describes how the American U. of Nigeria runs counter to many of the trends of American-style campuses outside the U.S.

Free!

Some ideas from the business world translate to academia better than others. At my college, we’re running an experiment with...

Mothering at Mid-Career: Just Busy Enough

When I was in college I learned a lesson that I seem to have to keep learning, which is that I'm not really happy unless I'm at least somewhat busy. I came to think of it like riding a bicycle -- too slow, and you won't keep your balance and will fall right over; too fast, and the slightest bump in the road becomes a major problem.

Comments of Student Sanctioned for Creating Class-Registration Web Site

Many issues of note are in this story worth teasing out. 1. Do students know and understand behaviors that have...

UCLA's ANNA NICOLE SMITH

Quietly the UCLA newspaper notes, a few days after it hit the Associated Press, the Harvey/Bystritsky story. Campus newspapers aren't set up to cover big breaking stories (do you follow Penn State events in the Daily Collegian?), so as this one develops (and it will develop), the Daily Bruin will be worth checking mainly for local comments and letters about a lawsuit against a UCLA professor and the UC Board of Regents that has the potential to be a very big story. Not, say, Anna Nicole Smith big, but big.

Pass-Fail Option for Professors

If colleges want to encourage faculty members to innovate in teaching, they should consider a new approach to course evaluations, writes Alison Byerly.

The Disgruntled Associate Prof

Terri Givens finds that a recent study about post-tenure frustrations resonates with her experience.