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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“Manhattanville is continuously monitoring, evaluating, and seeking to understand and adjust the academic curriculum and overall campus life to the needs of today’s students,” Louise Feroe, interim president, said in a related announcement. Image: Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y.,

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Roommate and Housing Selection

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Luckily for me, I roomed with one person the second semester of my first year, who is extremely competitive. To make it short, we ended up in the Adventure Landing , which is really small amusement park with mini-golf, laser tag, and mainly go-karts. I think everyone knows a person who is very competitive.

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Law school "denaming" sparks donor debacle

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The board was following a new set of principles adopted earlier that year to ensure the namesakes of buildings, colleges and professorships lived up to the university’s values; the trustees decided that Williams, a wealthy tobacco farmer and slave owner, did not. Williams from its law school, Williams’s descendants were irate.

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Interview with Robert T. Tally Jr. on historicizing 'The Hobbit'

Confessions of a Community College Dean

It felt downright pedantic to mention The Hobbit was published in 1937, or that most of The Lord of the Rings was written before the end of World War II. That said, this student of Tolkien had at least one salient critical premise: more can be going on in a work of literary fantasy than just make-believe.

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