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Friday, May 9, 2008
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Governor's Daughter Enjoyed a High Profile at West Virginia U.

About the same time last fall that university officials were awarding Heather M. Bresch a degree she had not earned, they were also considering her for appointment to two advisory panels that raise money for the university.

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article illustration The Forgotten Philosopher

John Stuart Mill was a great intellect ahead of his time, and is underappreciated in ours, writes Alan Wolfe.
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Critical Mass

Does John C. Yoo deserve to lose his Berkeley law professorship because of his Justice Department memos on torture?

Brainstorm: Lives of the Mind

Laurie Fendrich
The Way Taste Grows
Middlebrow culture, now almost entirely gone, was good for taste.

Marc Bousquet
The End of 'Minnesota Review'?
A cultural-studies institution declines to "do more with less."

article illustration Governor's Daughter Enjoyed a High Profile at West Virginia U.

Michael S. Garrison, president of the university, is under pressure from faculty members to resign but retains the confidence of its governing board. Above, he listens at a board discussion last month of a report on the controversial degree awarded to Heather Bresch. (Photograph by Dale Sparks, AP Images)

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The rigid standards of hiring and tenure are all that stand in the way of the humanities professor as thriving public scholar, writes Patricia Nelson Limerick.

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A Ph.D. in geological sciences always knew he wanted to teach; so how did his career get so focused on research?

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A biology professor at Norfolk State U. is getting sacked at the end of this semester for flunking most of his students.

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The Faculty

A PEDAGOGY OF PASSION

Ellen Handler Spitz offers fond and fearful memories of a professor who earned her students' awe. more...

Research & Books

'THE FUN IS TOTALLY GONE'

The National Institutes of Health considers changing its policies to entice more senior scholars back to evaluate grant applications. more...

Government & Politics

ON PROBATION IN THE GOLDEN STATE

A federal pressure mounts, regional accreditors crack down on colleges over self-assessment. Cash-strapped community colleges, like California's, suffer the consequences. more...

Money & Management

A TALE OF 2 COLLEGES

Heidelberg College and Tiffin University, two very different institutions in one small town in Ohio, present a living laboratory for strategies to weather tough times. more...

Information Technology

HACKING BACK

College students learn real-life lessons in Internet security when they go up against online attacks in the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. more...


Students

IT'S A GUY THING

Hampden-Sydney College has built a male-only culture and wouldn't have it any other way. more...

Athletics

HIGH-PRESSURE GAME

Many people in college sports, including the coaches themselves, say the recruiting frenzy has grown absurd and has seeped down to small colleges and non-marquee sports. more...

International

'TUTORS,' NOT PROFESSORS

Canada's first private, secular liberal-arts college hopes to begin a revolution in terms of teaching in higher education. more...

Commentary

INVEST IN PEOPLE, NOT BUILDINGS

Institutions should spend more money to meet the real needs of low-income students and minimum-wage campus employees, writes a senior at the University of Virginia. more...

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THE NEW PATERNALISM

If we know what's good for us, we'll let specialists guide us when we don't know what's good for us. Or so a new book contends. more...