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One possible future
Vance Fried's proposal for a "$7,376 Ivy" isn't intended to be about sustainability, unless we're talking about the sustainability of...
Towards Helhaven
Was the new Pixar film "WALL-E" inspired by an American cultural theorist? Scott McLemee goes over the moon to find out.
Planning to plan to plan
Greenback U. is, in the terminology of those who think and write analytically about such things, a "multiversity." It's a...
Better-Than-Ivy Education: $7,376 a Year
Many American students and parents thirst for colleges focused on “value.” Vance Fried offers a new model.
Tiers
I had a conversation this week with a colleague at whose college, as at so many others, the level of...
Mothering at Mid-Career: The Myth of Indispensability
One of the nice things about blogging is the sense it can provide of participating in an ongoing conversation. After...
The Career Coach Is In: Transition, From the Inside Out
This week’s letter is from a tenured creative writing professor at a state college, who has two small children and...
My Semester With an Asperger Syndrome Student
Stephen A. Yoder describes how he responded to "Fred," who never identified himself as having the condition.