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WAR OF WORDS
Lee C. Bollinger (right), president of Columbia University, raised bitterly contested issues of free speech at a campus appearance last week by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (left), the leader of Iran. It was not the first such controversy during Mr. Bollinger's tenure.
(Photographs by Timothy Fadek, Polaris)
FRESH PERSPECTIVES
The benefits of studying abroad are increasingly recognized. The benefits of teaching abroad are less appreciated, but no less significant, writes Donald E. Hall, chairman of the English department at West Virginia University.
5 REASONS POLITICIANS HATE US
Between the worlds of politics and higher education lies a lot of misunderstanding.
Notes
PEER REVIEW: The chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is stepping down. ... The head of the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency is leaving. ... The chairman of the anthropology department at Washington University in St. Louis will become dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. ... A Princeton University professor has been named poetry editor of The New Yorker.
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Syllabus
An anthropology professor at Washington and Lee University escorts students six feet under.
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The Arts & Academe
A world-class, $100-million concert hall under construction at Sonoma State University raises some jeers. ... Duke University celebrates Thelonious Monk. ... 1950s-vacation nostalgia appears in New York City, courtesy of a professor at the State University of New York College at Purchase.
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