The Chronicle of Higher Education | Opinion & Ideas http://chronicle.com/section/Opinion-Ideas/40/ Opinion & Ideas Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:21:16 EST <![CDATA[Dissing the Inarticulateness of, Like, Youth]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130622/ http://chronicle.com/article/Dissing-the-Inarticulateness/130622/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:48:00 EST <![CDATA[Weekly Book List, February 6, 2012]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130677/ http://chronicle.com/article/Weekly-Book-List-February-6/130677/ Descriptions of the latest books, divided by category.

]]> Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:27:00 EST <![CDATA[Theory and the Novel]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130611/ http://chronicle.com/article/Theorythe-Novel/130611/ Do novelists really want to "rework" poststructuralist theory? Or do they just want to tell excellent stories?

]]> Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST <![CDATA[Little Boy Blue—and Little Girls, Too?]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130612/ http://chronicle.com/article/Little-Boy-Blue-and-Little/130612/ Parents haven't always color-coded their offspring by gender, according to a new book on the history of children's clothing.

]]> Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST <![CDATA[Academic Abroad: A Cautionary Tale]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130614/ http://chronicle.com/article/Academic-Abroad-A-Cautionary/130614/ A traveling scholar displays his, um, sophistication.

]]> Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST <![CDATA[The Past, Present, and Future of German Studies]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130618/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Past-PresentFuture/130618/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST <![CDATA[Technion Society Is Not a 'Fund-Raising Office']]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130666/ http://chronicle.com/article/Technion-Society-Is-Not-a/130666/ "The New York-based American Technion Society was founded in 1940 as an independent organization dedicated to raising support for the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology."

]]> Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST <![CDATA[U.S. Education in Chinese Lockstep? Bad Move.]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130669/ http://chronicle.com/article/US-Education-in-Chinese/130669/ The two countries' education systems are headed in opposite directions, aiming at exactly what the other one is trying to give up.

]]> Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST <![CDATA[Adviser to Protesters: Grow Up. Pay Up.]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130670/ http://chronicle.com/article/Adviser-to-Protesters-Grow/130670/ "The 'Pledge of Refusal' ... what a thought."

]]> Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST <![CDATA[Tools for Living]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130615/ http://chronicle.com/article/Tools-for-Living/130615/ Increasingly, students see the value in not just a sophisticated understanding of the world's problems but also the practical know-how to find sustainable solutions.

]]> Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST <![CDATA[Free Speech Off Campus Must Be Protected]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130660/ http://chronicle.com/article/Free-Speech-Off-Campus-Must-Be/130660/ The outcome in "Tatro v. U. of Minnesota" could give colleges almost limitless authority to silence speech critical of their programs, no matter the source.

]]> Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST <![CDATA[Teaching News Literacy in the Digital Age]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130613/ http://chronicle.com/article/Teaching-News-Literacy-in-the/130613/ If the Facebook and Twitter era has made everyone a journalist, let's make everyone a better journalist.

]]> Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST <![CDATA[Just Doing It]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130616/ http://chronicle.com/article/Just-Doing-It/130616/ The inestimable value of being in the moment, whether in upward dog or in the classroom.

]]> Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST <![CDATA[Vassar Gets It Wrong]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130604/ http://chronicle.com/article/Vassar-Gets-It-Wrong/130604/ Why didn't it just admit the early-decision students who had been mistakenly told they got in? Because it's holding out for the Ivy rejects who can plump its ranking.

]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:40:00 EST <![CDATA['Change.edu' and the Problem With For-Profits]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130596/ http://chronicle.com/article/Changeeduthe-Problem/130596/ One reader had hoped that the new book would be a road map for realizing for-profit education's possibilities. Now he's wondering whether we can even get there from here.

]]> Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Graph: Where Do You Fall on the Moral Spectrum]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130495/ http://chronicle.com/article/Graph-Where-Do-You-Fall-on/130495/ Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:24:00 EST <![CDATA[Queer Activism vs. Queer Theory]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130457/ http://chronicle.com/article/Queer-Activism-vs-Queer/130457/ Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:03:00 EST <![CDATA['Queer' Academic Project Not Dead]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130455/ http://chronicle.com/article/Queer-Academic-Project-Not/130455/ "Queer studies--at least in linguistics, and at my university--remains a vital and vibrant enterprise."

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST <![CDATA[Researchers Are Not the Only Good Teachers]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130478/ http://chronicle.com/article/Researchers-Are-Not-the-Only/130478/ "Is Mr. Mendillo suggesting that the only worthwhile courses are those taught by research faculty?"

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST <![CDATA[Maryland Lawsuit Is Hardly 'Unusual']]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130481/ http://chronicle.com/article/Maryland-Lawsuit-Is-Hardly/130481/ "Maryland has been warned for over 40 years by the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights that its higher-education system was segregated."

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST <![CDATA[Weekly Book List, January 30, 2012]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130494/ http://chronicle.com/article/Weekly-Book-List-January-30/130494/ Descriptions of the latest books, divided by category.

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST <![CDATA[A Political Defector]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130450/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Political-Defector/130450/ Jonathan Haidt called for affirmative action to make the field of social psychology 10 percent conservative by 2020

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST <![CDATA[Jonathan Haidt Decodes the Tribal Psychology of Politics]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130453/ http://chronicle.com/article/Jonathan-Haidt-Decodes-the/130453/ Liberals would be well served, says Jonathan Haidt, to wise up about conservatives’ gut feelings.

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST <![CDATA[The Noble Lecture That's More Than a Speech]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130473/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Noble-Lecture-Thats-More/130473/ It's not at commencement. It's the one when the university comes together to hear a great intellect expound on a topic of lasting importance.

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST <![CDATA[The Accordion Family]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130452/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Accordion-Family/130452/ As more adult children in the developed world live at home, what is happening to family life?

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST <![CDATA[Copyright Goes Philosophical]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130451/ http://chronicle.com/article/Copyright-Goes-Philosophical/130451/ The debate over intellectual property transcends the law—and requires philosophy.

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