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November 20, 2008

Beehive Whacking

Peter Wood

A professor who publicized names of plagiarizing students in his course was fired from Texas A&M International University. Many see the incident as a discouragement to faculty to report academic d......

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November 19, 2008

Good Sports

Peter Wood

How the college sports industry undermines higher education

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November 18, 2008

What Ails College Teaching?

Peter Wood

Is it the division of labor between tenured scholars and "teaching specialists"?

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November 17, 2008

Feminizing Science: The Alchemy of Title IX

Patricia Hausman

Will gender balancing come to dominate science? The following article was published in Academic Questions (volume 21, number 4).

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November 17, 2008

You Too Can Write Like Toni Morrison!

Peter Wood

It's not for nothing that Toni Morrison is the most assigned author in college today. Her revamping of written English gives a new model for fiction. As a service, NAS's executive director has......

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