Articles for Discussion

1. Yearning After Books
2. What Am I Doing?
3. Moving a Step (or 3) Up the Ladder
4. Advice to a New Department Chair
5. How to Avoid Becoming a One-Hit Wonder
6. The Real Great Depression
7. The End of Race as We Know It
8. Against Intuition
9. Why a Small Liberal-Arts College Decided to Offer Online Courses
10. Community Colleges Seen as Source of Engineers
11. Cellphones Could Be Used for Cheating During Tests
12. Science Suffers When Getting a Grant Becomes the Goal
13. New Ratings of Humanities Journals Do More Than Rank — They Rankle
14. Race Will Survive the Obama Phenomenon
15. Great Colleges to Work For

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