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FORGET MIT
THE NEW URBAN STUDIES Scholars in Los Angeles are using their region to challenge the ideas of the "Chicago School," which has long dominated the discipline.
ONE UNIVERSITY'S VENTURE IN ASIA A collaboration between Johns Hopkins and the Singaporean government shows the financial rewards and the cultural challenges that may await enterprising colleges abroad.
DEFENDING THE FAITH Colleges ought to support organized religion and not just me-first "spirituality," writes Donna Schaper, the senior pastor at the Coral Gables Congregational Church, in Miami.
THE GROWTH OF SALLIE MAE Experts on student loans are closely watching the company's expansion and debating whether it will help or hurt borrowers and colleges.
PHILOSOPHICAL CHAUVINISM In failing to read their European contemporaries in the original languages, American philosophers are depriving themselves of important sources of thought, argues Richard Shusterman, a professor of philosophy at Temple University.
REVISITING GRATIAN'S 'DECRETUM' Using modern technology to search medieval texts, a professor at Yale University has surprised canon-law scholars with a new view of the roots of academe.
'LOSING THE RACE' In a new book, a University of California at Berkeley professor says the poor academic performance of many black students can be blamed on a mindset, endemic to their culture, that discourages learning.
CONTROVERSY AT INDIANA U. A tenure dispute raises the question: To what lengths should an institution go to save a department in which many of the scholars are brilliant but all their differences are irreconcilable?
BRAVE NEW ARCHITECTURE At the Biennale, in Venice, students from Columbia University and the University of California at Los Angeles try to convey theories of how we will live in a digital world.
THE SITUATION IN SERBIA At the University of Belgrade, two years after Yugoslavia severely restricted academic freedom, masked thugs beat students, and politically appointed deans fire professors without reason.
FROM IMPERIALISM TO COMMUNISM Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, an associate professor of history at Indiana University at Bloomington, examines recent scholarship on the "clash of civilizations" between China and the West, and argues that colonial powers provided a model for lasting authoritarian rule.
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Is Los Angeles the future for urban studies? What does sociology need to make it a science? Does sociology need to have a codified set of propositions to make the discipline more like a science? Should it focus more on specific solutions to societal problems? (NEW RESPONSES)
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