Recent Articles
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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.
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Campus Sustainability: It's About People
Depending on what it does now, the movement can either flower into fullness or hit the green wall, doomed to irrelevance.
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How to Protect Your Students From Cyberbullying
In the wake of the Rutgers case, three areas to focus on.
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For Science Ph.D.'s, There Is No One True Path
Too many young researchers are made to feel worthless because of their desire to leave academic science.
Letters to the Editor
- Memo to Berkeley: Look to Data Before Undertaking Grand Projects
- If College Students Are Research Subjects, Do Results Apply to Others?
- Working at Starbucks With Your B.A.? Not to Worry.
- Students' Sense of Entitlement Drives Away a Faculty Member
- So You've Got Technology. You Still Need the Humanities.
