Alex Small takes issue with some of the approaches and aims of the assessment movement. More...It's better for historically black colleges and universities to consider merging than to close in disgrace, argues Harry L. Williams. More...University governing boards are taking extreme steps to keep secret the names of finalists for presidencies, writes Judith Wilde, sometimes even tapping campus police for help. More...How have institutions like the University of Oxford endured for centuries through so many dramatic changes, asks Reverend John I. Jenkins, and what might their staying power teach us now. More...Foreign agents are targeting research at American academic institutions, write Representatives Lamar Smith and Clay Higgins, and universities must take steps to guard against theft of sensitive information. More...Matthew J. Mayhew, Benjamin S. Selznick, Kevin Singer and Alyssa N. Rockenbach provide data and advice on improving attitudes toward Jewish students on college campuses.Kate Kennedy highlights five assumptions that universities should question themselves about in the wake of sexual abuse charges at the University of Southern California. More...
Whether or not madness seems like the right word for such a state of mind, Barbara K. Lipska's The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery is likely to make a certain impression on the reader approaching middle age or well into it, writes Scott McLemee. More...
You do not expect to find much good news in a book with the words “mass starvation” in the title. Dread feels appropriate, maybe obligatory. But Alex de Waal’s Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine (Polity) makes some encouraging points, and it seems appropriate to start with them, just to deprive pessimism of its home-court advantage. More...
Deborah Parker describes how it feels to be an Asian faculty member in Italian, a field in which there are very few minorities, and how greater diversification offers a way forward. More...
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