News
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Professors: Hot at Their Own Risk
Professors seen as very good-looking can be cast by colleagues and their students as lightweights, known less for their productivity than for their pulchritude.
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Too Much Sunshine Can Complicate Presidential Searches
Presidential search committees at public colleges have two tasks: Find the best candidate, and keep the public informed. It's a classic Catch-22.
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Can Gates Foundation's Millions Remake Higher Education?
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation says the problem is beyond college access and is focusing on programs that develop college-level skills.
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Michael Bellesiles Takes Another Shot
He was drummed out of academe after a controversy over his book about gun ownership in America. Now the historian aims for a second chance.
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In Beirut, a Professor of Agriculture Advocates 'Slow Food'
Students are savvy about local and organic food and fair-trade issues, says Rami Zurayk, which makes for dynamic discussions in the classroom.
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A University Pulls Together for a Cinematic Labor of Love
Frostburg State's students, staffers, and even its president serve as cast and crew for a professors's feature-length film.
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The Rev. Paul Locatelli, Educator of 'the Whole Person' at Santa Clara U., Dies at 71
He built up the university's endowment and emphasized experiential learning for students.
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Colleges Extend Conditional Admissions to Pull In More International Students
Those who just need to bone up on English can now find more U.S. institutions willing to enroll them.
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Mass Video Courses May Free Professors for Personalized Teaching
New York University plans an ambitious experiment to reprogram the roles of educators in large classes, using technology to give them more time for one-on-one instruction.
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Leading Humanities Journal Debuts 'Open' Peer Review, and Likes It
Instead of using blind peer-review, Shakespeare Quarterly allowed some contributors to post drafts of their articles online and accept comments from anyone.
The Chronicle Review
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Linkrights and Wrongs
Web sites that aggregate content should share profit with the sites that generate that content.
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You're Dead. Now What?
The afterlife is hazardous territory for scholarly conjecture. But four brave authors explore it anyway.
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Vegans Cry Fowl
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Confessions of a Bad Academic Adviser
An economics professor approaches the job with a certain amount of cynicism.
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The Evolution of Ecology
The discipline began from natural history and has grown to encompass physics and engineering. Now it needs to meet the social sciences and the humanities.
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Seriously Happy
In her new book, acclaimed ethicist and essayist Sissela Bok synthesizes recent research and writing on happiness.
Commentary
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An Academy to Support Outstanding Teachers
A National Teaching Academy, sponsored jointly by the federal government, donations, corporations, and colleges, could give classroom teaching the gravitas it needs.
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Why America Needs a Smithsonian of Basic Skills
A high-profile center devoted to remedial education could lead to a sea change in the way the nation understands and deals with academic underpreparation.
Advice
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A Short Recent History of American Capitalism
There is one sure opportunity for you in the wake of the Great Recession—and it's not gold.