By Geoffrey Pullum. I noticed recently that I now have more than 100 co-authored works on my publications list. It occurs to me that this rather high number might raise questions or even eyebrows: Is it evidence that I am a pathetically dependent hanger-on, joining other people’s research projects because I can’t come up with my own. More...
By Ben Yagoda. If you heard I had posted on Lingua Franca about Emma Donoghue’s Room, you might justifiably expect that I’d written about the way the narrator of the novel, 5-year-old Jack, uses language. Jack’s entire life has taken place in an 11-by-11 foot room, where he is confined with his mother. More...
By Ben Yagoda. You may have caught this Budweiser ad during the Super Bowl. Dame Helen Mirren sits before a burger, is served a Bud (not bloody likely), and counsels, in strong language, against driving drunk. More...
As a former Fulbright grantee to South Korea, I was glad to see your article on recent efforts to increase diversity within the program (“Fulbright Seeks More Diverse Pool of Scholars and Students,” The Chronicle, February 22. More...
The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) is disappointed by the accusatory tone of Annie Waldman’s commentary, “Who’s Regulating Troubled For-Profit Institutions? Executives at Other Troubled For-Profit Institutions” (The Chronicle, February 26), which presents a distorted view of the peer-review discipline and unfairly tarnishes the reputations of honorable men and women who voluntarily serve as ACICS commissioners. More...
By Phil Hill. With all of the talk about the high cost of college textbooks and the buzz about free online alternatives, it is surprising how little is understood about how much students spend on required course materials. More...
By William B. Harvey. It may appear to outside observers that colleges and universities have made tremendous progress in regard to racial attitudes and practices over the past several decades. More...
By Eric Johnson. Financial-aid nights offer a fascinating window into the state of the world. Spending long hours talking with students, parents, guidance counselors, and legal guardians in a rural high-school or a downtown community center, I am always struck by the chasm that separates bloodless policy discussions from lived reality. More...
By Monica Osborne. Literary and philosophical studies have long been the symbolic refuge for the broken, the oppressed, the silenced. But the most powerful literature blurs distinctions between the dichotomous categories of right and wrong. More...
By Joe Karaganis. In late January, I was part of a group of scholars at Columbia and Stanford Universities who unveiled the Open Syllabus Explorer — an online tool that aggregates data from over one million syllabi collected from college and university websites. More...
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