William H. Starbuck (NYU): How Much Better are the Most Prestigious Journals? The Statistics of Academic Publication. From The Nation, William Deresiewicz on the crisis in higher education: A review essay. Is college a rotten investment? Why student loans are not like subprime mortgages. As the Internet becomes an increasingly important source of material for academic research, librarians try to preserve "ephemera of the Web". A review of Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age by Ann Blair. Peter Wood, president of the National Association of Scholars, on the campus Left's nostalgia party. Why are conservatives obsessed with the sex lives of college kids? Laurie Essig on the perversions of campus sexual culture. An interview with Bryant F. Tolles Jr., author of Architecture & Academe: College Buildings in New England Before 1860. Universities around the world sign up for UN Academic Impact. The PhD factory: The world is producing more PhDs than ever before — is it time to stop? How public like a frog: Natalia Cecire on academic blogging. The Shirley Sherrods of Academe: Three days after conservative blogger posted videos of a course, an instructor is no longer employed — even as university finds that statements were "distorted". Our elite schools have abandoned military history: The study of war elucidates some of mankind’s noblest virtues and bitterest vices, so why do colleges seem afraid of it? After ROTC's Return: Getting officer training units back on elite college campuses will mean little unless higher education starts treating military service as a legitimate profession. The real scandal around the endowment by the Koch brothers of two chairs at Florida State University is that state universities now have to seek such outside money and accept strings.
