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The Weight of the Past
Tom Stoppard, Peter Cozzens and the ways that history weighs on the present.
Tales of an Adjunct, Part 2: This Isn’t Notre Dame!
Adjuncts have always just wanted to do their jobs. How hard can it be?
Organizing for the Common Good
Edward Schortman considers what is at stake as union organizing among student workers intensifies.
Universities, Consultants and ‘The Big Con’
How this book can help academic leaders think about ways to engage with consulting companies and consultants.
Do Today’s Colleges Resemble 1970s Detroit?
Detractors point to bloated bureaucracies, complacency, declining quality, a lack of focus, broken business models and an inability to adapt. Do they have a leg to stand on?
Matthew Desmond’s ‘Poverty, by America’
Somehow both on-target and disappointing.
Why Florida’s Public College Presidents Should Resign
The best strategy for countering Governor DeSantis’s attacks on higher ed could be for Florida’s public university presidents to threaten to resign en masse, Robert Birnbaum writes.
Reimagining the Academic Book Launch
Our topics may sometimes be abstruse, but we should take more creative risks to engage people in them, writes Christopher Schaberg.