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Life as We Know It
Do huge databases on living organisms encourage or obstruct our fundamental appreciation of them? asks Randy Malamud. The demand for high-tech skills didn't cause the growing gap in wages, two economists argue; the culprit is the short supply of educated workers, writes David Glenn. The Profs They Are A-Changin'Will the retirement of aging baby boomers usher in an era of moderate politics on campus? UndisciplinedThe trend of teaching masters of Western thought, like Freud, Hegel, and Marx, outside their home disciplines represents a flight from history, writes Russell Jacoby. Books & Arts
The Wright Way
A posthumous book and a recent conference underline Richard Wright's discomfort with the civil-rights movement, writes Leonard Cassuto. 
Nota Bene Books on the Society of Dilettanti; modernists and Cretan myth; and Mabel Dodge Luhan in Taos. ObserverBodies of KnowledgeIn online education, students and professors can lose important connections to each other, writes Suzanne M. Kelly. |
Blogs
Brainstorm: Lives of the Mind
Stan Katz Michael Nelson Higher Education CommentaryGENDER IMBALANCE ON CAMPUSESAs more colleges approach a 60-40 ratio of women to men, Richard Whitmire writes, the effects on friendships and romantic relationships could be devastating. A MEASURED SALUTE TO THE NEW GI BILLIt promises to be a good thing for veterans and for their country, but it's a far cry from the 1944 original, Milton Greenberg says. DEBT CREDITSPaul R. Wrubel, who advises families on tuition costs, suggests a program to give employers tax benefits if they pay back the principals of their employees' student loans. My Space
Mahzarin R. Banaji's Web site on bias has become a cultural phenomenon.(Photograph by Tsar Fedorsky) LettersThe College President as Politician The 'Systemic Violence' Behind Marijuana Use 
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Discussions
The Brown Bag: Alan Contreras, a higher-education official in Oregon and longtime critic of the ease with which diploma mills operate in the United States, returns to discuss whether much has changed in the four years since The Chronicle published a long report on the booming industry in spurious degrees, and what, if anything, is to be done. Join us for a live online chat, on Thursday, July 24, at 12 noon, U.S. Eastern time.
The Brown Bag: Barbara A. Lee, an expert in higher-education law and a professor at Rutgers University at New Brunswick, will answer questions and share strategies for navigating difficult classroom conversations and controversial topics while teaching, without landing yourself — or your institution — in a lawsuit. Join us for a live online chat, on Thursday, August 21, at 12 noon, U.S. Eastern time.
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