An interview with Robert Morse, the man behind U.S. News college rankings. The first chapter from Taming the River: Negotiating the Academic, Financial, and Social Currents in Selective Colleges and Universities. The truth about tuition: The conversation about college costs shouldn't end at student loans. From Mother Jones, here's their Mini College Guide. Don't have sex with your students: Why is this the first piece of advice that new TA's get? "Annoying Habits of College Professors" (circa 1935 to 1937): A look at the timeless pet peeves of American university students. Higher education has destroyed young Americans’ ability to express themselves on the page — or in their own minds. A review of How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment by Michele Lamont. Tyler Cowen on autism as academic paradigm. An interview with Cynthia Franklin, author of Academic Lives: Memoir, Cultural Theory and the University Today. A review of Revenge of the Women's Studies Professor by Bonnie Morris. An article on why women's colleges are still relevant. From THES, a look at the transparency culture, its political uses and the dangerous implications for scholarly freedom. Steve Fuller and Alan Haworth debate the merits of a "Statement of Academic Freedom".
