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Against the New Normal
In advance of International Human Rights Day, Scott McLemee reviews Authoritarianism: Three Inquiries in Critical Theory, by Wendy Brown, Peter E. Gordon and Max Pensky.
How to be a Better Graduate Student
Advice from the inside on how to reduce stress and use your school's resources more effectively.
Campus Status, Administrative Assistants and Meeting Scheduling
How can I get on your calendar?
Why We Can't Teach Johnny to Write
. . . and how we actually could, if we make writing a practice, not a punitive test.
Amplifying Research Engagement With Social Media
Resources and examples from UK higher education
Peak PBF?
Performance-based funding and community colleges.
Academe Must Challenge the Skeptics of Expertise
The more academics seek to inform and shape policy, the more they must confront efforts to undermine their influence, writes Linda Stamato.
Don’t Be a Conference Room Hog
As academe works to make conferences more accessible and humane, it's a pervasive problem that's also easy to fix, writes Jonathan Beecher Field.