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Yale U. Press & images of Muhammad

9.1.09 - By Jennifer Howard - At issue is the press's decision to remove all the illustrations, including recent and historical images of the Prophet Muhammad, from a forthcoming book, The Cartoons That Shook the World.

Diminishing Returns in Humanities Research

by Mark Bauerlein
It was sometime in the 1980s, I think, that a basic transformation of the aims of literary criticism was complete

A Calculating Web Site Could Ignite a New Campus 'Math War'

June 12, 2009 - The long-running debate over whether students should be allowed to wield calculators during mathematics examinations may soon seem quaint.

Peter Schmidt: Intergroup Dialogue: Promoted as Using Racial Tension to Teach

By PETER SCHMIDT
Colleges struggle to get students of different races and genders to learn from one another. Now several major colleges are promoting a teaching method that deliberately stirs up conflict in the classroom to expose students to different perspectives.