http://chronicle.com/section/Opinion-Ideas/40/ Opinion & Ideas Sun, 19 May 2013 17:20:43 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139215/ http://chronicle.com/article/Weekly-Book-List-May-17-2013/139215/ Descriptions of the latest books, divided by category

]]> Mon, 13 May 2013 00:47:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139115/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Biblical-Blame-Game/139115/ Richard Wolin responds to a letter about his article on the Egyptologist Jan Assmann.

]]> Mon, 13 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139125/ http://chronicle.com/article/Hard-Hats-Hippiesthe/139125/ Class divides in protest movements have never been as simple as they seemed.

]]> Mon, 13 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139181/ http://chronicle.com/article/Lets-Bring-Clarity-to/139181/ Students serve an important role in catering to a sub-industry that rewards colleges for rejecting the largest percentage of applicants.

]]> Mon, 13 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139131/ http://chronicle.com/article/From-Nonlife-to-Life/139131/ Making the leap in a test tube would reveal part of the basic nature of the universe.

]]> Mon, 13 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139129/ http://chronicle.com/article/Where-Thomas-Nagel-Went-Wrong/139129/ The philosopher's critique of evolution wasn't shocking. So why have his colleagues raked him over the coals?

]]> Mon, 13 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139117/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Letter-to-My-Grandfather/139117/ The late Jacques Barzun was known to the world as a great historian. To his grandson, he was also a guide on grooming, career, and "the enigma of love."

]]> Mon, 13 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139123/ http://chronicle.com/article/My-Academic-Metamorphosis/139123/ Four years of anguish intense enough to induce a fugue state was enough for this would-be professor.

]]> Mon, 13 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139183/ http://chronicle.com/article/To-Improve-Completion/139183/ Rural America stands as an untapped source of potential college success stories, write two officials at the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission.

]]> Mon, 13 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139119/ http://chronicle.com/article/Jazz-Journeys-of-MindSoul/139119/ In imaginative new works, Jaimeo Brown and Chuck Owen explore spiritual and natural revelations through hybrid musical forms.

]]> Mon, 13 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138913/ http://chronicle.com/article/Why-We-Need-Enemies/138913/ More often than we care to admit, we feel the absence of foes as strongly as we do their presence.

]]> Mon, 06 May 2013 01:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139075/ http://chronicle.com/article/Weekly-Book-List-May-10-2013/139075/ Descriptions of the latest books, divided by category

]]> Mon, 06 May 2013 00:15:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138919/ http://chronicle.com/article/Selected-Works-on-Resilience/138919/ Recent seminal works in the field.

]]> Mon, 06 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139043/ http://chronicle.com/article/Reciprocity-Is-Essential-for/139043/ A new report proposes a way to provide more access for students and quality assurance for institutions.

]]> Mon, 06 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139033/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Self-Publication-Gold-Rush-/139033/ Ultimately that industry descriptor is hardly the best rubric for the way scholarly communication is democratizing.

]]> Mon, 06 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138927/ http://chronicle.com/article/After-Catastrophe/138927/ Scholars who perceive the world as interconnected systems know that there are surely more disasters to come.

]]> Mon, 06 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138929/ http://chronicle.com/article/Natures-Limits/138929/ Ecologists looking for the best way to manage natural resources try to encourage systems that can absorb and accommodate unexpected future events.

]]> Mon, 06 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138923/ http://chronicle.com/article/Bouncing-Back-May-Be-Tough/138923/ Just as ecosystems can absorb serious shock and change into different but stable versions of themselves, so can people, researchers say.

]]> Mon, 06 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138917/ http://chronicle.com/article/That-Elastic-Term/138917/ C.S. Holling first defined the concept of "resilience" in 1973 as a system's ability to rebound. It has found its way into many disciplines, but does it lack precision?

]]> Mon, 06 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139031/ http://chronicle.com/article/Counting-Not-Curtailing/139031/ We need a strategy to include time outside of class—one that doesn't conflict with the Affordable Care Act.

]]> Mon, 06 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138925/ http://chronicle.com/article/Our-Handwriting-Ourselves/138925/ Philip Hensher's new book goes beyond nostalgia to what may really be lost when we leave cursive behind.

]]> Mon, 06 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138921/ http://chronicle.com/article/Out-of-Debt-on-the-Road/138921/ One graduate's effort to pay off his loans led to a very different kind of education.

]]> Mon, 06 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138861/ http://chronicle.com/article/College-Graduates-Deserve-Much/138861/ If students can't present information about their actual learning, then that learning is devalued. And devalued things don't get the support they warrant.

]]> Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138855/ http://chronicle.com/article/How-a-President-Can/138855/ Chief executives' actions and behavior have a crucial impact, for better or worse, on how their institutions are perceived.

]]> Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138787/ http://chronicle.com/article/MOOCsthe-Material-World/138787/ What brick-and-mortar classrooms still provide is that moment when people confront a problem hands-on in the same local space.

]]> Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138859/ http://chronicle.com/article/CommunicationCounseling/138859/ Empowered faculty members can play a vital role in preventing violence. Making sure they can do so more effectively is among colleges' greatest challenges.

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