From Scholar & Feminist Online, a special issue on Activism and the Academy. Rachel H. Gentry and Bernard E. Whitley (Ball State): Bullying in Graduate School: Its Nature and Effects. Tracy L. R. Lightcap (LaGrange): Academic Governance and Democratic Processes: The Entrepreneurial Model and Its Discontents. The anguish of saving endangered scholars: Steve Clemons on one foundation's struggle to rescue intellectuals from the Nazis — while leaving others behind. Disciplines that expect “brilliance” tend to punish women, study finds. The introduction to Locus of Authority: The Evolution of Faculty Roles in the Governance of Higher Education by William G. Bowen and Eugene M. Tobin. What do the academy and the military have in common? Henry Farrell on how academia is not a meritocracy: Whether you are likely to get a good job depends on the prestige of the institution where you got your doctorate. Dan Berrett on the day the purpose of college changed: After February 28, 1967, the main reason to go was to get a job. Here are the pros and cons of making the first two years of community college free. Elite colleges are suddenly extending their application deadlines, but some say they're juicing their numbers and giving students false hope. Aaron Sankin on today's college freshmen: Sad, Internet-addicted loners who don't know how to party. The first chapter from The History of American Higher Education: Learning and Culture from the Founding to World War II by Roger L. Geiger.
