From Peer Review, a special issue on study abroad and global learning and a special issue on undergraduate research. From HNN, John Willingham on James R. Stoner, Jr., the real intellectual at Beck University. What is a Grand Ph.D? Not many people have one, not many people have even heard of it. A review of Higher Learning, Greater Good: The Private and Social Benefits of Higher Education by Walter McMahon. Measured, and found wanting more: International comparisons of universities still have their detractors, but the appetite for them continues to grow. For all the buzz about wikis in higher education, the collaborative tools have gained only modest traction in academe — why? A review of Selling Out: Academic Freedom and the Corporate Market by Howard Woodhouse. A review of For the Common Good: Principles of American Academic Freedom by Matthew W. Finkin and Robert C. Post. From The Huffington Post, here are the ten best (some might say strangest) college slang words from around the country, and the weirdest university research. Few scholarly works can communicate with non-specialists, if they even attempt to — but academics in all fields may need to make their writing more accessible to satisfy demands for impact and interdisciplinarity. There are a number of questions about what academia really values from its (theoretically) most important employees, the professors. What if college tenure dies?
