Dariusz Jemielniak (Kozminski) and Davydd J. Greenwood (Cornell): Wake Up or Perish: Neo-Liberalism, the Social Sciences, and Salvaging the Public University. Nathan Goetting (Adrian): Racism by Degrees: Fisher v. University of Texas and the Fate of Diversity in American Education. How “race neutrality” can save affirmative action: James M. Glaser and Timothy J. Ryan on Americans’ surprising commitment to fairness. Benjamin Winterhalter on the real reason law schools are raking in cash: The profession's in crisis, but the schools don't care — they're steeped in a toxic, hyper-capitalist worldview. The Great Stratification: Jeffrey J. Williams on how the changing role of the professor has created a huge new subclass of academic worker. Andrea Peterson on how one publisher is stopping academics from sharing their research. Could digital college textbooks become free in the USA? This North Carolina campus was meant to show off the future of online education — it hasn't gone according to plan. Academics who defend Wall Street reap reward (and Felix Salmon on the non-scandal of Scott Irwin and Craig Pirrong). Cura te ipsum: Alex Rosenberg on how the problems of the humanities are self-inflicted wounds well recognized by their colleagues in other faculties. Who takes MOOCs? Surprising new data on what's supposed to be the future of higher ed. Hillel is cracking down on open debate, and it's scary: John Judis on what the campus organization's big rupture means for American Jews.
