http://chronicle.com/section/Opinion-Ideas/40/ Opinion & Ideas Wed, 23 May 2012 05:09:55 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131944/ http://chronicle.com/article/Book-Angst/131944/ Critics admit that their most well-known works aren't always their favorites.

]]> Tue, 22 May 2012 19:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131937/ http://chronicle.com/article/Wheelock-Too-Seeks-to-Keep/131937/ "It is important for faculty and administrators to remember that carefully crafted cocurricular programs that target sophomores can go a long way toward reducing the 'vacuum' experience."

]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 01:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131938/ http://chronicle.com/article/Singapore-Needs-Foreign/131938/ "Among Singaporean friends and colleagues, I note much enthusiasm for new ideas and a willingness to experiment--tempered by a persistent fear of steering too far from the status quo."

]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 01:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131939/ http://chronicle.com/article/To-Succeed-in-Communication/131939/ "Too often, we get vocabulary that remains trapped inside insider jargon, and a presentation hiding behind dreary reading of PowerPoint slides."

]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 01:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131930/ http://chronicle.com/article/Weekly-Book-List-May-21-2012/131930/ Descriptions of the latest books, divided by category.

]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 00:19:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131886/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Linguistics-Debate-Continues/131886/ Sun, 20 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131890/ http://chronicle.com/article/Spies-ShtarkersSex/131890/ Both grotesque anti-Semitic stereotypes and bland assimilationist mensches of yesteryear have been transmuted into multilayered, vivid characters, a new book argues.

]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131894/ http://chronicle.com/article/Crony-Capitalism-for/131894/ Unexamined biases may keep economists from warning the public about financial risks.

]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131888/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Storied-Discipline/131888/ How Oliver La Farge's fiction and the South Pacific islands lured a Vietnam soldier into anthropology.

]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131922/ http://chronicle.com/article/Help-Community-Colleges-Help/131922/ The most successful programs are those that provide assistance beyond tuition and books.

]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131919/ http://chronicle.com/article/Revenge-of-the-Underpaid/131919/ The online disruption of higher education had to wait for the tools to get good enough. Now great college teachers will finally have the platform they deserve.

]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131931/ http://chronicle.com/article/Video-The-Unabombers/131931/ David Skrbina, a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Michigan, has kept up a nearly decade-long correspondence with Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber.

]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131892/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Unabombers-Pen-Pal/131892/ The philosopher David F. Skrbina doesn't endorse Ted Kaczynski's violence. But he says some of the notorious anti-technologist's ideas are valid.

]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131884/ http://chronicle.com/article/Is-America-Philosophical-/131884/ In Socratic terms? Maybe not. In any other terms? You bet.

]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131923/ http://chronicle.com/article/What-Colleges-Can-Bring-to-the/131923/ Campuses have a role to play in both teaching students about sustainable farming and bringing local products into dining halls.

]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131881/ http://chronicle.com/article/Memo-to-Berkeley-Look-to-Data/131881/ "The claim that a grand project will generate indirect benefits is rarely critically assessed with real-world data."

]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 01:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131882/ http://chronicle.com/article/If-College-Students-Are/131882/ "The typical psychological research conducted on a sample obtained from a college-student participant pool may not be generalizable beyond the age of emerging adulthood."

]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 01:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131878/ http://chronicle.com/article/Working-at-Starbucks-With-Your/131878/ "The college graduate who waits table has a future, and he or she knows it. The restaurant job is another stage of education, as important and necessary for developing better working habits as a firm handshake."

]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 01:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131879/ http://chronicle.com/article/Students-Sense-of-Entitlement/131879/ "I even endured several instances of students' insisting they should pass my course simply because they had paid their fees and purchased the required textual materials."

]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 01:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131861/ http://chronicle.com/article/So-Youve-Got-Technology-You/131861/ "If education is merely a 'commodity' that enables individuals to tailor their learning so they can earn more, disastrous results should not surprise us."

]]> Mon, 14 May 2012 01:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131862/ http://chronicle.com/article/Motivation-Is-Neither-Fixed/131862/ "Motivation is usually seen as one of the more alterable and changeable factors in human behavior."

]]> Mon, 14 May 2012 01:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131819/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Epic-Secret-Struggle-to/131819/ A persecuted population, against all odds, has created and sustained its own institute.

]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 01:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131851/ http://chronicle.com/article/For-Schools-of-Theology-Its/131851/ Amid financial troubles and declining enrollments, the largest challenge may be cultural—seminaries have to adapt to a changing world.

]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 01:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131820/ http://chronicle.com/article/From-Icky-to-Etsy-Victorian/131820/ Marginal tangibles reflect the tangibly marginal aspects of life in a baffling, modern age.

]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 01:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131842/ http://chronicle.com/article/What-Professors-Bring-to/131842/ We belong there, among the parents and friends, because we have been a part of our students' journey.

]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 01:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131823/ http://chronicle.com/article/Portnoys-Enduring-Complaint/131823/ A world dizzy with lust and disgust, irony and rage. Such were the literary epiphanies boomers found in Roth.

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