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Mater: De Facto et De Jure

“One baby, one book,” my adviser told me, when as an ambitious, twenty-three-year-old, Marshall Scholar at Cambridge University, I announced...

Proposed Course: The Learning Universe of Curtis J. Bonk

Some people deserve their own courses. They are both interesting and prolific enough that only in the context of a...

Long Distance Mom: 'Superman' and Teacher Evaluation

There’s been a lot of negative media lately, particularly surrounding education and teachers' unions in Wisconsin, Ohio and Florida. My...

Separation anxiety

Illinois decision to decouple IT chain of command from the academic one, and resignation of a displeased CIO, sparks debate on "centralized" technology.

Models for Post-University Life

With higher education no longer a reliable patron of work in arts and letters, it's time to consider new approaches to living the life of the mind, writes Andrew Taggart.

Photography and Political Violence

Susie Linfield's The Cruel Radiance has won acclaim for its defense of the moral value of photojournalism. Scott McLemee talks to the author.

Dust in the Wind

For the benefit of those who wonder what administrators talk about in closed-door meetings, and why we come out looking...

Traditional Faculty: For-Profit Institution - An Interview

I’m curious about the life of full-time faculty at for-profits for four reasons: Sociological: I just don’t know too much...