Volume 96, Number 4 Download the whole issue as a pdf (AAUP member login required). Features Rethinking the Rules of the Higher Education Game By Peter Sacks Spare the Rigor, Spoil the Learning By Michael E. Gordon and Oded Palmon Teaching the Teachers By Nancy L. Beckerman Understanding the Working College Student By Laura W. Perna Life Ate My Homework By Susan L. Cook and Karen Krupar "Universities, the Major Battleground in the Fight for Reason and Capitalism" By Gary H. Jones Is This Curriculum for Sale? By Richie Zweigenhaft RateThisFacultyEvaluationSite.com By Gail Braccidiferro MacDonald A Primer on Improving Contingent Faculty Conditions By Heidi McGrew and Joe Untener Online Only The Myths of Meritocracy By Cassandra Leveille Columns From the Editor: What We Owe Students By Cat Warren From the General Secretary: Academia Without the AAUP By Gary Rhoades From the President: Collaborative Budgeting By Cary Nelson with Donna Potts Chapter Profile Chapter Profile: University of Akron Nota Bene AAUP Election Results By Robin Burns Revised Policies at Illinois Wesleyan By Gwendolyn Bradley O’Neil to Serve as General Counsel By Gwendolyn Bradley An Appreciation of Glenn R. Howze, 1937–2010 By Cat Warren Canadian Censures By Jordan Kurland Annual Conference Annual Conference on the State of Higher Education Fifty-year AAUP Members