Past Coverage

• The Real Reasons to Keep Tenure, and Questions About Its Success - November 9, 2001
• Why Tenure Is Indispensable - April 2, 1999
• A Faustian Bargain for Academic Freedom - October 3, 2008
• An Uncertain Future for Tenure as We Know It - April 20, 2007
• Tears in the Fabric of Tenure - January 10, 2003

Featured Commentary

• The Berkeley Protest: Fresh Anger in the Footsteps

  The Berkeley students who protested the big tuition increase at the University of California impressed Murray Sperber, who was in their shoes 45 years ago.

• Teaching Matters: Creating Lives in the Classroom

  Online avatars bring German history to life for students at Stanford. Edith Sheffer explains.

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  A Fine Legal Mess: When Student Groups Collide With Anti-Bias Policy

  Can a college compel a student group to abide by antidiscrimination rules that violate its religious views? The U.S. Supreme Court isn't saying, writes Robert M. O'Neil.

Campus Viewpoint

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If any one year can be said to be a transformative time in the life of a university, then the past 12 months have been such a year for Hofstra. Hofstra learned it would host the third and final 2008 presidential debate, announced plans for a...