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Bad Writing and Bad Thinking
Most poor scholarly writing is a result of bad habits, of learning tricks of the academic trade as a way to fit in. It's positively Orwellian.
Live From AACC 2010
The Chronicle is in Seattle for the 2010 meeting of the American Association of Community Colleges. Visit a new special report on community colleges to read news and commentary—and to follow live tweets from the conference.
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Community Colleges: Our Work Has Just Begun
At a conference this fall to be led by the vice president's wife, representatives of community colleges and businesses will share best practices for student success.
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At Many Two-Year Colleges, the Humanities Hold Their Own
Despite the national focus on job training, community colleges are still managing to strengthen their liberal-arts programs.
Anatomy of an Improbable NCAA Run
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How Butler Won the NCAA Tournament
Duke won the game by a basket, but the reputation my small Indianapolis institution gained as a model for student-athletes is a triumph in the long term.
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Butler Falls One Basket Short, but Its Run Gives Smaller Programs Hope
The team that "caught lightning in a bottle and ran with it" almost all the way to an NCAA title has shaken up the world of college sports.
- Butler U. Keeps Its Head, Even in the Spotlight
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My New Friends
After suggesting in an op-ed that the country raise taxes, a sociology professor gets a shock from his e-mail in box.
- Soldiers' Moral Wounds
- Obama's Health-Care Gamble: History Is on His Side
Chronicle Blogs
Brainstorm
The Chronicle Review's blog on ideas and culture
Buildings & Grounds
Lawrence Biemiller and Scott Carlson on facilities
Campus Cuts
Details on the programs colleges are shedding
Head Count
Eric Hoover on the world of admissions
On Hiring
Advice on maintaining a career in academe
Percolator
Tom Bartlett on ideas and how they happen
Players
Libby Sander and Brad Wolverton on athletics
Poetry Month
Submit your own poem inspired by Keats
The Ticker
Breaking news from all corners of academe
Tweed
Don Troop on the lighter side of academe
Wired Campus
Updates from Chronicle tech writers
In the News
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Violent Campus Attacks Are on the Rise, Report Says, but Assailants Follow Patterns
Nearly three-quarters of such assaults since 1900 have occurred in the past three decades, says a federal report.
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Watchdog Group Proposes Stricter Disclosure Requirements for Sexual-Assault Cases
Colleges should be required to report annually the number of sexual-assault hearings and share their outcomes, the group says.
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How Colleges Could Better Prepare Students to Tackle Society's Problems
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Obama's NASA Budget Could Send More Research Money to Universities
- Asian University Leaders, Meeting in Australia, Seek to Improve International Ties
- As Federal Stimulus Money Runs Out, Colleges Must Retool Budgets, Report Says
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Emory Coins a Strategy to Encourage Giving for a Lifetime
- Barista, Thou Art Translated: From Starbucks to a Community-College Stage
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Bill Clinton Urges Colleges to Strive for Solutions at Home and Abroad
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Stepping Up the Pace at the Office for Civil Rights
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The Ticker
- Police Raid JMU's Student Newspaper, Seize Photos
- Gun Owners Sue Colorado State U. Over Ban on Concealed Weapons
- Lawsuit Accuses CUNY College of Bias Against Noncitizen Job Applicants
- New York State Gives Trump U. a Failing Grade
- Pundit-Professor Takes Ideological-Bias Claim to Appeals Court
Wired Campus
- Is Your Thesis Hot? Or Not?
- Lehigh Professor Advertises Course on YouTube
- Higher Education Fuels a Spoof Web Site
Arts & Letters Daily
Fakelaki and rousfeti: two little words that together explain how Greece managed to tax so little and yet spend so much. More
Campus Viewpoint
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