On December 1, 2022, toward the end of my first semester teaching on the tenure track, my husband Andrew died of brain cancer at the age of 31. His 15-month illness began suddenly with a seizure, ...

T he campus novel, as a postwar genre, was established by Mary McCarthy’s The Groves of Academe. Bilious and blade-witted, the 1952 novel mocks the low, claustrophobic stakes of faculty politics at a ...

Leher Singh discusses how power, privilege, and positionality thread themselves through the cultural ecology of academic life.

In today's fast-paced and high-pressure academic environment, students of all ages are increasingly experiencing the debilitating effects of academic burnout. Similar to previous generations, the ...

In American higher education, freedom is often a flag flown high; freedom of inquiry, thought and speech are indispensable to the life of the mind. Yet, as I have seen across decades in the academy, ...

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You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Students with disabilities made up around 21 percent of all undergraduate students and 11 percent of ...

For the first 18 years of my life, my self-worth depended solely on academics. I aimed for straight A’s and let nothing get in my way. Anything less than 90% on assignments sent me into an existential ...