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The Benefit of Many Winners
John V. Lombardi offers an alternative take on this seasonal debate: bowl games or a national football tournament?
Critical Condition
Keeping up with the culture is a full-time job. Scott McLemee talks with a professor who does it 24-7.
A Question for Our Friends in HR
After applying for tenure-track jobs this year, I got a letter from a university in the California State system, signed...
Don't Forget the Registrar
Now that Education Secretary Margaret Spellings is using the report of her Commission on the Future of Higher Education to...
Churm House
Our house was built at the end of the Civil War and is listed on the National Register of Historic...
What Princeton Tuition Freeze Means -- and Doesn't Mean
For the second time in seven years, a highly visible and prestigious private institution has announced a decision not to...
A Warning on Measuring Learning Outcomes
Trudy W. Banta makes the case against using standardized tests of general intellectual skills to compare how well colleges educate students.