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From Plymouth Rock to Plato's Retreat
Last week, Intellectual Affairs gave the recent cable TV miniseries “Sex: The Revolution” a nod of recognition, however qualified, for...
Well, That Was Quick...
It's easy to underestimate the impact of sex scandals. According to this article from the Albany (NY) Times-Union, Governor Paterson...
Suicide
Hank Payne, Denice Denton, Jorge Liderman, Jerry Wolff -- these are some of the more high-profile professors who've killed themselves...
Managing the Elite
A recent Inside HigherEd (May 27, 2008), and elsewhere in the media, reflects much excitement about the decision by various...
A list on the road to Damascus
Over the three-day weekend, I managed to do a little reading. One of the magazines that I actually pay money...
Mothering at Mid-Career: Academe and Parenthood -- Commenting on the Comments
I've probably spent more time than I should over this Memorial Day weekend at the IHE site, reading and re-reading...
Academe and Parenthood
Over at IHE, there's a story glossing two new studies that suggest that academics are less likely to have kids...
Toward Federal Funding of Guaranteed Student Loans
The U.S. government's new plan for keeping lenders in the loan program -- requested by lenders themselves -- resuscitates an appealing idea that they rejected a decade ago, Donald M. Feuerstein writes.