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Friday Fragments
Civics, Miles Davis and a metaphor well slung.
Mindful Pleasures
Scott McLemee explores upcoming university press books on intellectual vitality.
Ultimate Villain of Varsity Blues? Selfish and Shortsighted Universities
The tendency of America's most famous universities to prioritize elegant campus life over learning has created the cutthroat culture at the core of the admissions scandal, Ryan Craig writes.
Can We Get Free Without Losing Our Souls?
For poor students of color, college contributes to the very inequality people have been taught to believe it erases, argues Blaque Robinson.
Amazon, Libraries and Pollan’s Only From Audible ‘Caffeine’
The price of our addictions.
It Works
I poured my teaching approach into a book. I knew it worked for me, but would it work for anyone else?
Organizing an Academic Job Market Working Group
A case study from Northwestern University.