Cathrine Hasse and Stine Trentemoller (Academia): Cultural Work Place Patterns in Academia. Rex J. Pjesky (West Texs A&M) and Daniel Sutter (Troy): Does the Lack of a Profit Motive Affect Hiring in Academe? Evidence from the Market for Lawyers. The myth of the millionaire college dropout: In the latest assault on higher education, Michael Ellsberg paints a misleading picture of the road to riches without a college degree. Do the humanities really need to be protected from the encroachment of the sciences? From Accuracy in Academia, Malcolm A. Kline on 100 arguments against tenure (and part 2 and part 3). Distracted by activism: If faculty members in education (and many other disciplines) want to influence public policy, they have no choice but to look beyond traditional academic publishing. Matt Ivester's clean slate: The creator of JuicyCampus, a controversial anonymous gossip site, re-brands himself as an enemy of cyberbullying and a champion of "digital citizenship". The wonderful wizard of US: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto is bewitched by the methods of an Arkansas teacher. Robert Weissberg writes in defense of bad teaching. Not feeling the kinship: Anthropologists debate whether their discipline is divided into humanities and science tribes, and wonder why they can’t all get along. Academics from physicists to experts on Scandinavian culture are crafting stand-up comedy routines based on their work — but this is no joke.
