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Because “The Laughter” is not just any book from such a perspective — it’s a no-holds-barred comic achievement that lambastes the power structures keeping men like Oliver skulking the halls of academe.

From New York Times

It said the “unspeakable violence against students is an assault on the sanctity of education, academe, and fundamental human rights.”

From New York Times

Keegin, a philosophy student at Tulane University, argues that, confronted with “the slow slide of academe into oblivion,” scholars — especially in humanities departments, which are losing undergraduates, prestige, jobs and funding — “desperately grasp for relevance.”

From Washington Post

Haustein suggests, though, that scientists consider strategically presenting metrics from Twitter or other social media to highlight papers that mattered to audiences outside of academe.

From Science Magazine

Although academe may dismiss the Galileo Project as nothing more than pandering to a gullible public, such prejudice is unhelpful and myopic.

From Scientific American