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You Probably Won't Get Tenure. Get Your Ph.D. Anyway. premium

By Jacques Berlinerblau

The one broadly marketable skill a humanist might acquire in graduate school is the ability to teach.

Today's News

Government

Is Student-Loan Debt Really Holding Would-Be Entrepreneurs Back? premium

By Beckie Supiano

Hillary Clinton wants to help aspiring business creators with their loans. Higher-education experts don’t think that’s the best way to help them out.

Administration

Police Confront the Price Tag of Prepping for Guns on Campus premium

By Emma Pettit

As campus carry becomes legal in Texas and active-shooter scenarios loom in the public consciousness, security officials are grappling with costs both big and small.


Views

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The New McCarthyism premium

By Ellen Schrecker

Why another academic witch hunt could take off.

The Chronicle Review

The Ghost (Writer) in the Machine

By Tom Bartlett

Who wrote the first novel on a word processor, and what is the future of writing technology?

Lingua Franca

Farmers and Cowmen in the Language Wars

Ben Yagoda refers, of course, to the descriptivists, who simply want to know who's saying what, and the prescriptivists, who judge what's said. Cain't they find common ground?

Advice

First Person

Teaching Students to Be Public Intellectuals

By Sarah Madsen Hardy and Marisa Milanese

Faculty members aren’t the only ones whose writing for a mass audience needs work.

Vitae

Learning More About Active Learning

By David Gooblar

Maybe you have to know why these teaching strategies work to be able to know how they work best.

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