William C. Kidder (UC-Riverside) and Richard Lempert (Michigan): The Mismatch Myth in American Higher Education: A Synthesis of Empirical Evidence at the Law School and Undergraduate Levels. Cheryl E. Matias, Naomi Nishi and Roberto Montoya review Whiteness in Academia: Counter-stories of Betrayal and Resistance by John Preston. Is college really harder to get into than it used to be? Colleges are full of it: Behind the three-decade scheme to raise tuition, bankrupt generations, and hypnotize the media. Evan Hughes on how the Left-leaning media hopes the student debt problem is huge: The backlash against David Leonhardt's New York Times column may be unwarranted. What does the future hold for academic associations? Steven Rathgeb Smith explains. Business school, disrupted: In moving into online education, Harvard Business School discovered that it isn’t so easy to practice what it teaches. Adapt (not publish) or perish: In the near future, only very wealthy colleges will have English departments. Finally, an academic text devoted to 50 Shades of Gray: William Giraldi on what happens when a very smart scholar tries to find meaning in a very dumb book. From the Hedgehog Review’s The Infernal Machine blog, Mark Algee-Hewitt and Andrew Piper on the unpredictability of academic writing; and Chad Wellmon on #failedacademic: The new public intellectual? The new academic celebrity: Christopher Shea on why a different kind of scholar — and idea — hits big today. Jack Flanagan on how Twitter is tearing down academia's Ivory Tower. Robert T. Gonzalez on the 20 best #SixWordPaperTitle tweets.
