Recent Articles
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Help Community Colleges Help Adult Students
The most successful programs are those that provide assistance beyond tuition and books.
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Revenge of the Underpaid Professors
The online disruption of higher education had to wait for the tools to get good enough. Now great college teachers will finally have the platform they deserve.
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What Colleges Can Bring to the Table
Campuses have a role to play in both teaching students about sustainable farming and bringing local products into dining halls.
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For Schools of Theology, It's Time to Bend Tradition
Amid financial troubles and declining enrollments, the largest challenge may be cultural—seminaries have to adapt to a changing world.
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What Professors Bring to Commencement
We belong there, among the parents and friends, because we have been a part of our students' journey.
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A College's Endowment Portfolio Should Match Its Mission
It need not suffer an inevitable trade-off in performance by incorporating responsible-investing criteria.
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Next Time, Fail Better
Computer-science students are used to failure's being part of the creative process. We need to help humanities students think the same way.
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Asian-Americans, the New Jews on Campus
For the dearth of Asian-American college presidents, we can blame the same shameful mistake made twice.
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To End Fraternity Hazing, End Boozing First
Here are three steps colleges can take to protect their students from harm and themselves from liability.
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There's More Than One Way to Defend Your Country
The link between college and national defense, broadly construed, may be gone. It's time to bring it back.
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A Public University, Cannibalized Before Our Eyes
An ill-conceived merger plan in New Jersey is a warning that any state college can fall prey to powerful political interests.
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Stop Telling Students to Study for Exams
Giving students traditional tests, especially the sadistic ritual of finals, is not just a waste of their time, it's counterproductive.
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The Suddenly Empty Chair
After a student's suicide, an instructor questions herself.
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For Women to Think Mathematically, Colleges Should Think Creatively
Creativity and playfulness may offer surprising strategies for closing the gender gap in some STEM fields.
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How Unequal State Support Diminishes Degree Attainment
To expand the number of poor and minority students who get bachelor's degrees, states must stop playing favorites with elite campuses.
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In College Classrooms, the Problem Is High-School Athletics
To what extent has the growth in seriousness of sports at that level contributed to the general dumbing down of public education?
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A Future Full of Badges
It might take some time, but the credentials that validate learning are about to be transformed.
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For Student Success, Stop Debating and Start Improving
Colleges could be doing many things to close the degree-attainment gap between the haves and the have-nots, but they're not doing them.
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Scholarship, Liberated From Paper at Last
Today almost all research papers are born digital. And it's past time for tenure-and-promotion committees to deal with this reality.
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Why Does Tuition Go Up? Because Taxpayer Support Goes Down
It's that simple, writes a professor of management science and economics at the University of Iowa.
Letters to the Editor
- Wheelock, Too, Seeks to Keep Sophomores From a Slump
- Singapore Needs Foreign Universities' Expertise
- To Succeed in Communication, Keep Aristotle's Lessons in Mind
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A Linguistics Debate Continues
- Memo to Berkeley: Look to Data Before Undertaking Grand Projects
