http://chronicle.com/section/Opinion-Ideas/40/ Opinion & Ideas Wed, 22 May 2013 23:23:29 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139387/ http://chronicle.com/article/Weekly-Book-List-May-24-2013/139387/ Descriptions of the latest books, divided by category

]]> Mon, 20 May 2013 00:31:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139253/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Course-in-Online-Civility/139253/ His students bemoan social-media meanness, but when their online conversations are part of their grade, the courtesy is contagious.

]]> Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139345/ http://chronicle.com/article/When-2-Colleges-Become-One/139345/ The president of a college created by a recent consolidation describes the pitfalls and the many benefits.

]]> Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139259/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Talented-Mrs-Shipley/139259/ A State Department bureaucrat of the early 20th century drew up a forerunner of the No Fly List, raising the same constitutional issues then as we face now.

]]> Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139353/ http://chronicle.com/article/Lets-Talk-About-Sex-on-Campus/139353/ It is time to begin a sustained, coordinated effort to create a sexually healthy population of undergraduates.

]]> Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139251/ http://chronicle.com/article/Scholars-in-Bondage/139251/ Academics writing about kink lick the boots of their cultural-studies idols and shackle themselves in jargon.

]]> Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139255/ http://chronicle.com/article/Austerity-Has-Been-Tested-and/139255/ Public-health experts have joined economists and historians in critiquing rigid belt-tightening regimes.

]]> Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139347/ http://chronicle.com/article/How-a-Little-Data-Can-Solve/139347/ You don't need millions of dollars to improve graduation rates. Georgia State did it with tiny grants for the right students.

]]> Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139249/ http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Do-Historians-Insist-on/139249/ Human relations have been characterized by contact and interconnection more than by conflict and antagonism.

]]> Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 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.

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